I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The #ImageDescription function of Microsoft's #Bing is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an #LLM is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct?
How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. #Microsoft either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted.
Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).
Pour celles et ceux qui utilisent #Bing (???), #Duckduckgo, #Qwant (oui, y'a que toi), #Ecosia etc etc.
Bing étant kapout, ces moteurs de recherche le sont aussi
Mais heureusement, @zaclys gère une instance #searxng qui, elle, reste fonctionnelle !
To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.
(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)
:quotesL: Because we leverage Microsoft’s #Bing technology to power some parts of this feature, the Microsoft Privacy Statement will apply to any personal data you may input into the input box for the AI-powered takeaways feature, as well as any personal data included in any Bing provided results :quotesR:
New article posted by Hasan Çimen: For us visually impaired individuals, accessing image descriptions has long been a challenge. While object recognition apps provided some assistance, they were limited in their ability to describe images comprehensively. However, recent developments in AI have brought about a groundbreaking solution, making detailed image descriptions accessible to the community. Let’s look at the brief history https://accessibleandroid.com/detailed-image-descriptions-with-bing/#Android#AI#GPT4#Bing
Late last week, MSN.com's Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the "cannot miss" attractions of Ottawa that includes the Ottawa Food Bank, a real charitable organization that feeds struggling families. In its recommendation text, Microsoft's AI model wrote, "Consider going into it on an empty stomach."
Letting tech companies decide how AI is regulated is like building a zoo by releasing all the animals first and then deciding where to put the walls and fences.
Yep, having access to that Bing image recognition thing has changed things a lot for me. Imagine you can barely see without your glasses, but there are no glasses. Everything is a bit blurry to you. Would you rather see even in that situation, or be totally blind? That's what AI image recognition is for me, and it's something I doubt any sighted person can understand. You think people are gonna describe Youtube videos? How about old TV shows? Or random images on the Internet? Memes on Twitter about toilet paper and programming? People's daily surroundings? Book covers? Did you know the cover of Automate the Boring stuff is something like a robot mowing a lawn? Yeah. Or graphs in a book? All these things were given to me by AI image recognition. And as long as I can understand the general feel of the image, or the meme, or decoration, I have been given something that I have never had before. And that's why this "beta" flight, Be My Eyes access pending, on-one-device-but-not-another, rollout type stuff is so frustrating. And yes, I know this is a corporation doing what corporations do. But for me, for my accessibility needs, it's huge.
Pour les personnes qui sont perdues parce que #DuckDuckGo / #Bing / #Ecosia / #Qwant ne fonctionnent plus aujourd'hui, sachez qu'Alsace Réseau Neutre propose un meta-moteur de recherche qui se base aussi sur l'index Google. Il est donc toujours fonctionnel.
Cerise sur le gâteau, il vous remplace les liens youtube par des liens invidious :)
☝️ Yes, the #Internet was not broken yesterday, only #Bing from #Microsoft and therefore these so-called alternatives, which apparently resist #Google. You should expand your naive belief and behaviour via #SearXNG, @Mojeek and/or #Stract search. You can find it by #search'ing for the corresponding hashtags in #Fediverse.
AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models - Scientific American (archive.is)
As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?
Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is Ubiquitous (www.nytimes.com)
Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google.