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Mozilla 1 year ago • mastodon (AP)

Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device AI model! 🙌🏾

Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/

Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.

^{Tarek Ziadé (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)}

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Noble :frostbite: 1 year ago • iceshrimp (AP)

thank GOD they're actually using AI for something useful and doing it in a privacy-respecting way rather than just slapping a cloud-based LLM on the side of the browser and calling it a day like pretty much every other browser does
i'm sure for the visually impaired having something to describe an image is better than nothing at all. i hope that the generated alt text specifies that it was automatically made though so that it isn't interpreted as 100% accurate