A new "Describe Image" feature is coming soon to Click To Do, which will allow Windows 11 to use AI to describe an image that's currently on your screen.
An image is worth a thousand words. How is reading a text describing what is on the screen going to be better than just looking at the screen yourself, something you’ll need to do to read the description anyway? Aside from accessibility for the blind, the practicality such a technology is questionable.
The motivation behind this is obviously to facilitate the collection and reporting user profiling data. Accessibility for the blind is only a side effect. Tech companies have been doing it with automated audio transcriptions for years already, now they’re after what you look at on your screen.
this is 100% right, you don’t need an AI to describe something you’re already looking at. This is an absurd feature (again aside from the accessibility portion but that’s not what this is).
An image is worth a thousand words. How is reading a text describing what is on the screen going to be better than just looking at the screen yourself, something you’ll need to do to read the description anyway? Aside from accessibility for the blind, the practicality such a technology is questionable.
The motivation behind this is obviously to facilitate the collection and reporting user profiling data. Accessibility for the blind is only a side effect. Tech companies have been doing it with automated audio transcriptions for years already, now they’re after what you look at on your screen.
this is 100% right, you don’t need an AI to describe something you’re already looking at. This is an absurd feature (again aside from the accessibility portion but that’s not what this is).