@cameron seriously, this is why I was so pissed at @piatpod's misunderstanding of AI on Scathing the other day. They insisted that people who were against it are somehow making it harder for the disadvantaged, but it doesn't make anything easier, it makes *everything* worse for people who already have a hard enough time, whether that's terrible alt text or getting you in trouble with the law for incorrect legal stuff. </rage>

@cameron oh no. A perfect AI poisoning tool. Garbage training data, garbage results. Everyone using it will poison future crawlers.

@cameron well… I'd still take an endeavor that isn't state-of-the-art quality but has this UI that very clearly sets expectations and directly encourages manual checking and editing of the results over the typical megacorp endeavor that's really bad in terms of privacy, energy impact, and psychological manipulation (pretending to have some superintelligence)

@cameron they all do. I did a little search yesterday just to confirm something I already was pretty certain about. I did not require naive middle school level lessons on what book burning was and notable occasions when it has occurred. I only wanted confirmation that Heinrich Heine said the thing about burning books and later burning people. So damned intrusive. And no apparent way to opt out. Time to change search engines fully.

@cameron well it got something right. It is a close-up!

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Just more ai bollocks

@cameron They should. Unfortunately they are too busy counting money from their investors to care about how terrible AI is, so they are adding more AI into firefox instead.

@cameron Using “#AI” to generate AltText is nothing but a big “Fuck You and stop bothering me.” It’s an effective way to drown useful AltText in a sea of shit.
Just like most cases where genuine effort is replaced by “AI”.

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I didn't even know Mozilla did this

@cameron thank you for your ACCURATE alt text