Image descriptions on @twitter are great!
But I've been thinking about how an auto-generated description -- that you must edit for acceptance -- could triangulate on good and useful descriptions and an awesome training dataset for machines (and guide for people).
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two answers: 1. there are small examples of forcing alt text correction, companies generally stop doing it b/c users hate it, they don't want to write alt text at all. (although, FB/Insta both let you correct their auto-gen stuff, if you search for it)
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Replying to @jeffbigham @generativist and
2. i'm not 100% sure, but performance of image captioning kind of sucks, so not sure it will result in any better data to do it this way vs. just getting more image captions
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Thanks, Jeff!
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