Hi!

While I really enjoy seeing many of my fellow man being accommodating to people with disabilities. I find manually transcribing every image I post to be very tiring.

I thought that I could at least use some sort of AI to help with image transcripts, tho, that could probably be better used by the actual person with the disability.

So thats the question, should I skip the transcribing of an image or let an AI do it?

  • x74sys@programming.devBEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    In my opinion, no. It has to be heavily curated. You’re not saving yourself a lot of work if you have to read it word by word (and probably correct stuff) anyway.

    I think just one very short sentence describing what’s on there (it doesn’t have to be detailed) is a lot better than whatever an LLM will give you.

  • Doorknob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    By transcribing, do you mean describing what is in a picture, or transcribing text in a picture?

    For the former, I can’t really imagine an image you couldn’t describe for accessibility within a sentence, and for the latter, OCR could do the job equally well.

    I’m not saying this to just push the view that neural networks are no good for anything btw. For translation, for example, or text to speech/speech to text, I genuinely think they’re a revelation, and they need very little compute to perform those functions.

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’d say go ahead but make sure it produces accurate enough results and make sure to add something like [AI Transcribed] in front so people can take the potential for additional errors into consideration when reading it.

    Also, if you’re using an online service make sure you’re using something that doesn’t use it as training data. Many (probably almost all) artists / photographers won’t appreciate that.