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Tldr: Theyre adding an opt-in alt text generation for blind people and an opt-in ai chat sidebar where you can choose the model used (includes self-hosted ones)

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[โ€“] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's plenty of situations where even a contextless generated alt-text is a huge improvement on no alt-text at all

[โ€“] pitbuster@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

You should better read what the blind community thinks about it instead of making blanket assumptions.