Major hosts already support image links, and it’d be a good way to stick it to reddit et al. Especially if it looks like a captcha text. Or is it a matter of ‘aint nobody got time for that’…?

  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago
    • The data for those on mobile devices without unlimited data.
    • users with sight issues using text to speech
    • People who are using translators

    and probably a dozen more things

  • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    most people don’t care if their comment help train ai. not sure why lemmy generally seems to.

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    Because that would greatly harm accessibility for the visually impaired.

    And if you wanted to adhere to accessibility guidelines for the conversational images, you’d need to add alt text to them. But then the ML models can train on that, so you’re back to square one.