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Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model" (hacks.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by frogman@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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New accessibility feature coming to Firefox, an "AI powered" alt-text generator.

EDIT: the AI creates an initial description, which then receives crowdsourced additional context per-image to improve generated output. look for the "Example Output" heading in the article.

"Starting in Firefox 130, we will automatically generate an alt text and let the user validate it. So every time an image is added, we get an array of pixels we pass to the ML engine and a few seconds after, we get a string corresponding to a description of this image (see the code).

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Our alt text generator is far from perfect, but we want to take an iterative approach and improve it in the open.

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We are currently working on improving the image-to-text datasets and model with what we’ve described in this blog post..."

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[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is actually one of the few cases where it makes sense. Its for alt-text for people who browse with TTS

[–] rho50@lemmy.nz 16 points 5 months ago

Yeah, this is actually a pretty great application for AI. It's local, privacy-preserving and genuinely useful for an underserved demographic.

One of the most wholesome and actually useful applications for LLMs/CLIP that I've seen.