Christine MalecFor the first time in my life on Masto, I read alt text that made me wish the person hadn’t bothered. After a wordy post, they wrote in the alt text field something like, “I don’t really want to write alt text and train the AI for free, but okay, person holding a computer.” I’m going to assume they didn’t think about what a slap in the face this was to me, and possibly to anyone else who relies on alt text. 3 Times I started an acerbic reply and deleted it, but I’m still seething, so I’m asking anyone who is so disingenuous to just not bother; you’ll create less hard feelings that way.
Climate Jenny 2.1@ChristineMalec That’s weird. Why do they think it has anything to do with training AI? Maybe I’m just ignorant, but I thought alt text was for humans.
Riley S. Faelan@ClimateJenny Easy — abuse of genAI has done, and been blamed for without doing, so much damage to the society in the past few years that it has become a sort of folk devil. If you see an evil thing done, and assume it has something to do with genAI, you'll have a pretty good chance of getting it right.
Some people just ... hallucinate ... up evil things where they aren't, though, and then ascribe those hallucinations to genAI. Full circles can be so karmic!