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So glad to see this. Google's Gemini advertising is insane. A couple months ago when Gemini first launched they had an ad using Gemini to caption someone's dog photo for social media. In my opinion it was just plain gross - like our lives have become so performative we can't even use our own brains to caption our own photos of our pets for friends and family??? It also shows how clueless and "tech bubble isolated" Google's marketing has become.

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Well I’d absolutely love to see AI tools to add alt text to images since people can’t seem to be bothered to do it manually. But I assume you mean the post text that comes with the image which, yeah normally people want to have a personal message there!

I do use alt text but really I think this should be a client-side function. Also i've noticed that a lot of alt text captions are dreadful, absurdly over-written blocks of text that make me wonder if the person is a frustrated novelist. With client-side approach, people could choose whether they want terse or verbose image descriptions as needed.

Here is specifically what I was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Fh7TaTkEU&t=36s

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