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minus-squarespacedogroy@feddit.uktoLinux@lemmy.ml•Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer bloglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoAll sounds pretty sensible. I do think it might feel annoying waiting minutes to download a model for the sake of generating a line of alt text the first time, though. It would probably be quicker to write the alt text. linkfedilink
minus-squarespacedogroy@feddit.uktoLinux@lemmy.ml•Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI think if you read through this and take it at face value, there is a pretty clear picture of what happened: https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/ linkfedilink
All sounds pretty sensible. I do think it might feel annoying waiting minutes to download a model for the sake of generating a line of alt text the first time, though. It would probably be quicker to write the alt text.