@alice @OddDev @altbot BUT.. I also see the potential for abuse, yeah. It would need to be paired with like.. the ability to mass reject all proposals from a user, maybe limitations between instances or a user setting to force it to be one per account? idk.

I'd absolutely love to see something like this come to Mastodon though. It makes alt text more of a community thing <3

@alice @OddDev @altbot
- blocks apply to suggestions (you already mentioned that, but yeah)

- the only thing I'd question is, the one per account? I'm not saying it's wrong, I see the benefit, but with tagging, very often I'd find community members who would literally sit down and go through an artists gallery and meticulously tag in one sitting and you ended up with like.. expert taggers in the community that just did this. And it's really really good with that happens.

@alice @OddDev @altbot - users can disable tag suggestions (I'd like this for alt text suggestions, it's a really effective safety valve against harassment)

- mods can also accept tags, which greatly increases the speed without opening up to much abuse. The fediverse equivalent would be something like "your own instance operator can accept alt text for you." I am neutral on this, there are some instances I think it would be great, others where maybe they're too large and it becomes dangerous.

@alice @OddDev @altbot I've wanted this for a while, and I think it would be a big help on the Fediverse.<3

I compare this to tag suggestions on the NSFW galleries I post to. Good galleries allow users to suggest tags without commenting, that increases the number of suggestions and leads to better tagging and filtering.

Some implementations I've seen:

@zkamvar Spent a while second guessing it (I make *way* less money now), but then the AI nonsense started up and I feel like getting out of software allowed me to dodge one of the biggest bullets in my entire career.

I went from making more money than I knew what to do with to struggling to pay rent, and I've never been happier.

@zkamvar I went into software straight out of college, went to a few different companies of different sizes. After a long while, left to do contracting work.

While I was getting that set up, I started drawing furry porn as a hobby and eventually a few critters asked me about commissions. Realized that drawing pornography for strangers on the Internet was more emotionally satisfying and was more interesting and made me feel like I was doing more good than all of my contracting work.

@mkljczk @Gargron I mean, I don't have a problem with either of these positions. I'm used to using "AI" for both as well. I also feel the frustration of trying to distinguish technologies.

I do think there's a difference between LLMs and OCR regardless of the umbrella term, and I understand wanting to make that difference clear. People/critters can use the word "AI" or not, I don't have strong opinions about a specific word.

@Gargron @mkljczk I do think there's value in distinguishing between OCR, a technology almost as old as I am, and full-on image transcription.

I'm used to using the term AI for both, but I don't have any objection to anypony else using a different term and I understand why Gargon would want to distinguish them.