Generative AI - Alt Text and other AI Features
These features should be turned off by default. Most users do not want generated content being automatically inserted into production documents without review or approval. If users do want AI assistance, it should be opt-in, with clear choices such as:
Generate descriptions for all images
Generate descriptions for selected images only
Approve descriptions on a case-by-case basis
I do not think automatically inserting generated content into live production files is a good approach.
In real-world workflows especially regulated, accessibility, publishing, legal, pharmaceutical, or corporate environments every word often needs to be reviewed, approved, and sometimes audited. AI-generated alt text can absolutely be useful as a starting point, but it should never silently become part of the document unless the user explicitly accepts it.
There is also the risk of inaccurate, inappropriate, misleading, or non-compliant content being introduced into documents without the user immediately noticing. That could create serious problems for regulated workflows, accessibility compliance, approvals, translations, and version-controlled production environments.
AI should assist the user, not bypass existing review and sign-off processes.
See the current thread.
Eugene Tyson
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Fully agreed, I am in a corporate design position (non-legal) and unwanted AI alt-tags would cause big issues in our approval process and even bigger if they got published unknowingly.
I see the benefit here, but it is only positive when prompted by the user/toggled off by default. Otherwise it feels like a rogue tool with potential to add hours to my workflow due to fixing its' mistakes.
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Anonymous commented
100% agree!
(There is no need by the way for any of this AI slop, but at least it should be off by default!)