"Once you bring in the "AI will do it" line of thinking, we may as well
just remove any author requirement, and WCAG becomes just a list of
requirements for AI user agents to massage any old web content into
something accessible."
@SteveFaulkner@patrick_h_lauke And that doesn’t even address the fact that every user would have a different experience depending on how much they are willing to pay for “AI”. It’s a good fallback or a way to get more/specific/other information than what is in the alternative text from the image.
Maybe we should have term limits in W3C Working Groups ;-)
@SteveFaulkner@patrick_h_lauke this will work best if all of the user base is also LLMs. LLMs can write, design, code, and ingest their own nonsense which can then start a feedback loop resulting in the internet turning into a useless sludge of meaningless “content”
"may be of interest to know that the W3C Team is thinking about the
systemic impact of AI on the Web, and that it'll be a topic for
discussion at the AC meeting next week. As a result, I filed two issues
earlier this week that relate (to a greater or lesser extent) to the
point you make Gregg."
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