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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!

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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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