@jcsteh @acsawdey @dannyman yeah, I've seen a fair amount of clearly AI alt text on here, and lots of it misses important context, while >1% of it incorrectly describes what's in the image.

1% might not seem like much, but imagine if your social media client replaced 1% of pictures with unrelated images. It would mess with your head quite a bit if you had no way to tell other than sometimes the image contradicts the text of the post.

Another point in these conversions: writing alt text for my images often helps me improve the text of my posts, and this is even more true in other contexts like when I'm making presentations or other teaching materials. I've put together many diagrams that were vastly improved by having to stop and think about how to describe them, leading me to reorganize the diagram to make it easier to describe. Even when I can't edit the image, I can often sharpen the surrounding prose after being forced to express in words what the image shows (most common case is realizing the in made doesn't clearly show the thing I'm trying to illustrate so I add both specific alt text and extra supporting text to point out what I talking about).

@jcsteh @tiotasram @acsawdey @dannyman I've seen a fair number of AI alt texts that I thought were better than nothing. They managed to describe the image well enough for understanding, although generally they were overly-verbose and included irrelevant detail.

I've also seen them miss the point so badly that they were useless or worse. While those were a large percentage, I don't think they were a majority. (IME, of course.)