Major hosts already support image links, and it’d be a good way to stick it to reddit et al. Especially if it looks like a captcha text. Or is it a matter of ‘aint nobody got time for that’…?

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    • The data for those on mobile devices without unlimited data.
    • users with sight issues using text to speech
    • People who are using translators

    and probably a dozen more things

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      I also recently saw an article about YouTube videos being transcribed for GPT-4 training data so if the companies really want to they’ll get the data anyways.

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      Which is like the easiest ML problem.

      Students commonly implement OCR as a homework assignment in undergrad machine learning courses (see the MNIST dataset).

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    I hate people doing that here. It’s always unreadable since people took the screenshot on a PC and the text is tiny and I need to scroll sideways every 8 words… Or I’m at the PC and the screenshot is just 3 sentences without a link to read the rest.

    I’d say let them train their AI on my comments. I just want a share of the finished product in exchange.

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    most people don’t care if their comment help train ai. not sure why lemmy generally seems to.

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    Your idea is that AI cannot understand the meaning of your comments. But that will ‘hold’ only a year or two. Then the hungry AI’s (if we don’t stop them in time) will incorporate character recognition from images in it’s learning.

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    I think it’s better to use photos in combination with text for the reasons other people have already mentioned.

    I think you can upload images to Reddit directly now and have them automatically displayed but I feel like the process is still a tad easier on Lemmy and you see it more often here. Using AI images as examples or to add flair to a post or comment might be a better way to stick it to Reddit.