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Facebook's useless #AI based photo descriptions have made it to Threads; and, because they have, #blind people have to suffer for it. People think that posting photos on Threads without alt text is ok because of the utterly useless auto-generated descriptions. I thought I was rid of it when I abandoned Facebook in 2017. Please ask your friends, followers, and acquaintances to describe #photos on Threads.

#accessibility #a11y


This is not to suggest that automatic descriptions aren't useful. Several tools available to #blind people are now capable of providing a good idea of the contents of photos when no descriptions are available. Apps and hardware are able to analyze photos and videos for quick access to the environment when this wasn't possible short time ago.

Even though these tools exist, automatic #descriptions should not be a substitute for alt text.

#accessibility #a11y #photography #photos


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I've conducted several informal experiments over the last few weeks about alt text for #photos as described by humans and as provided by #AI systems.

#LLMS, despite providing plethora of details when describing images, still miss the nuances of what the photos contain. Human #descriptions certainly continue to be better at conveying context.

#blind #accessibility #a11y #photography #images #photos


For this experiment, I asked several friends to send me photos and share #descriptions with me.

To give you one example, I was sent a photo of a table surface with a small coffee pot and a cup of coffee with foam on top. The table also had a plate of cookies, muffins, and croissants.

The #AI description described the drink in the coffee cup as a yogurt-based concoction. It also missed the cookies on the plate.

#accessibility #a11y #blind #photos #photo #photography


I expected something like this after Apple's October #OpenSource AI effort. The potential #accessibility implications are pretty significant here.

Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source #AI model #MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions

Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing

venturebeat.com/ai/apple-relea…

#GenAI #photos #photography


Meanwhile in #Cuba, a gallery of photos by Raúl Cañibano. One pic attached.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

#bw #photos #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotos #photography


Immich is seriously impressive without being bloated like PhotoPrism

immich.app/

#FOSS #photos #googlephotos #selfhosted


This lighthouse is SO UNIQUE! It's called Þrídrangar, which means "three rock pillars". It is located 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometres) off the southwest coast of Iceland, in the archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, often described as the most isolated lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse was built there in 1939.

It's such a INCREDIBLE location for a lighthouse, perched on a rock in Iceland's wild surf. Originally constructed and accessible only by scaling the rock on which it is situated, it is now accessible by helicopter since the construction of a helipad.

#photography #photo #photos #landscape #lighthouse #engineering #amazing #travel #world #wonders


DAY 2

Here's the second photograph in this series of posts showing the lifecycle of different berries.

Today, we're looking at the strawberry. As always, I hope you enjoy it.

#nature #life #photography #amazing #strawberry #fruits #berries #photo #photos #beautiful


I'll be posting a series of posts showing the lifecycle of different berries.

Today, I'm starting with the blackberry. I hope you enjoy it!

#nature #life #photography #amazing #blackberry #fruits #berries #photo #photos #beautiful


Upscayl - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler; a cross-platform application built with the Linux-first philosophy. This means that we prioritize Linux builds over others but that doesn't mean we'll break things for other OSes :)

github.com/upscayl/upscayl

#upscale #image #ai #foss #linux #app #photos #graphics #tool


Darktable is a free open source raw photo processing app for Linux, Mac and Windows, sort of a libre alternative to Adobe's Lightroom.

You can follow at:

➡️ @darktable

You can download it from the project's website at darktable.org

#DarkTable #Photography #Photos #Raw #Camera #Developer #Development #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #LightRoom #Adobe #Alternatives