Reddit seems to analyze images with an Ai to index words found in it
from thingsiplay@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 17 Nov 18:43
https://beehaw.org/post/17114392

Reddit seems to use Ai to analyze images, so the content can be indexed by the search. In example I searched for my name (which is also used for the my blog) to see if there are recent posts with “thingsiplay”, because I saw some spike in the stats. But what I instead found is a screenshot of a comment from me made in YouTube. There is no text attached to the post or title, so it must have analyzed the content, right?

www.reddit.com/search/?q=thingsiplay&t=week results in

and the post is

Or did I miss something and I make myself a fool here? Does any other community software or forum do this? Is this covered in their User Agreement?

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bonn2@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 20:42 next collapse

Not an expert in it, but this isn’t necessarily AI, it could be good ol’ image text recognition that has existed for years now.

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 17 Nov 21:16 next collapse

Given the recent cooporation with Google and that Google has excellent image text recognition, isn’t this a safe bet? Otherwise Reddit would have this done without AI for years.

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 04:34 collapse

It would make sense to include matching images in the search results and other engagement driven recommendations. There are quite a few screenshots too, so if the search can only handle text, it’s going to completely miss a pretty large category.

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 Nov 16:22 next collapse

Could have been alt text

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 18 Nov 16:27 collapse

Posting images on Reddit allow to add alt-text? And the user has to add the name as alt-text, otherwise it wouldn’t have one. I don’t remember that was even possible.

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 Nov 19:37 collapse

I think there’s an option to add captions. I left during the June strike wouldn’t know

MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com on 18 Nov 20:35 collapse

You can add captions to images inside text posts - those are used for alt text. You can’t add alt text to image posts though.

Trust me, I would know.

Incidentally, they’re automatically adding the subreddit and post title together for the image’s alt text, which still doesn’t include OP’s name.

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 19 Nov 13:55 collapse

Oh oki

Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca on 19 Nov 01:35 collapse

OpticalCharacterRecognition is a pretty common practice that’s been around for a century… (1920s)

It makes a lot of sense when you consider those with visual impairments.