@akamran @altbot @Jyoti be me, be visually impaired, notice comic boosted by mutual, start reading overly verbose alt text.
Sigh.
This was written by an LLM wasn’t it?
Continue being me, get confused by alt text, zoom into comic and strain vision to read it, notice alt text said it’s four panels arranged horizontally when it’s actually a 2 by 2 square, fail to find the “small cylindrical object between the two mice” from the alt text, realize one of the characters is that object but not a mouse and not cylindrical.
Sigh.
I was so happy with the culture of using alt text on the Fedi, but it’s being flooded by wasteful and incorrect descriptions promoted as helpful. The tech bros are winning. Human art and thoughtfully communication is being chewed up by machines that waste power and water while pretending to help people.
If AltBot provides you a description, I beg of you to write one yourself instead. You know what you posted, you know why, you know what’s important and what it means. I want that. I want what the human posting for other humans wants to share.