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I can see people not necessarily wanting suggestions for tab group names, but… The rest of the list is translations and alt text suggestions for images added to PDFs. The most uncontroversial AI features if ever there were any.
I really don’t care for this urge to advertise “AI” everywhere. I also don’t care much for the knee-jerk reaction just because someone calls something AI.
I’m afraid the reason for that is that is that it’s the only place where Firefox has full control over the upload experience. Like, how would Firefox even be able to insert an alt text when e.g. I’m uploading a pic to Mastodon, without adding special cases for every website (which would break whenever the websites update)?
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some “copy suggested alt text to clipboard” feature would be added at some point.
In any case, sure it’s an edge case, but it’s still weird to be angry about “AI” for it. It won’t even download the model if you don’t use it, AFAIK.
I can see people not necessarily wanting suggestions for tab group names, but… The rest of the list is translations and alt text suggestions for images added to PDFs. The most uncontroversial AI features if ever there were any.
I really don’t care for this urge to advertise “AI” everywhere. I also don’t care much for the knee-jerk reaction just because someone calls something AI.
Firefox doesn’t let you use alt text anywhere, except for the most ridiculously niche location.
People who want to see it when they browse webpages get nothing.
It’s only if you
If Mozilla cares about accessibility, what a weird niche of a niche of a place to put it.
I’m afraid the reason for that is that is that it’s the only place where Firefox has full control over the upload experience. Like, how would Firefox even be able to insert an alt text when e.g. I’m uploading a pic to Mastodon, without adding special cases for every website (which would break whenever the websites update)?
Though I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some “copy suggested alt text to clipboard” feature would be added at some point.
In any case, sure it’s an edge case, but it’s still weird to be angry about “AI” for it. It won’t even download the model if you don’t use it, AFAIK.
They could be working on that, but we don’t know yet.
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Alt text is an accessibility feature. Do you really want to be exclusionary to anyone who’s remotely blind?
The place for it is in screen reader software, for those occasions where proper human-written alt text is not available.