I am missing a small amount of context - is reddit randomly prompting users to describe images in posts? Or is it prompting you to describe your own image at upload time?

Context aside, I definitely think that providing image descriptions is something we should do in spite of the fact that its definitely going to be used to train AI. Choosing to not do so is throwing our blind peers under the bus to reduce the amount of training data for ai fractionally.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I haven't been there in a while but I remember there was a sub of volunteers that were around for years that went around just describing images, way before AI LLM were really a thing.

I'm assuming this is something new being pushed by reddit itself, but as you said, it's a good thing regardless.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 6 days ago

As long as, even if reddit is using it to train LLM, they are actually still using the descriptions to add accessibility to those images, which I don't take for granted