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OT: Those image captions are weird - the first image of the VW logo has: > A Volkswagen logo is seen on one of the German automaker's cars in a street in Sydne
by jalk 4y ago
OT: Those image captions are weird - the first image of the VW logo has:
> A Volkswagen logo is seen on one of the German automaker's cars in a street in Sydney, Australia, October 8, 2015
The specificity seems out of place and smells of "AI" generation.
Any screen reader users who can share if this is helpful or just noise.
- playingalong 4y agoIt's like watching movies with closed captioning. You get extra cues you wouldn't normally hear or sea (eg. titles of the songs being played in the scenes or names of emotions expressed)
- tablespoon 4y ago> OT: Those image captions are weird - the first image of the VW logo has: > A Volkswagen logo is seen on one of the German automaker's cars in a street in Sydney, Australia, October 8, 2015 > The specificity seems out of place and smells of "AI" generation. It sounds more like a stock image description, generated from basic archival metadata. They have photojournalists and a photo archive, and I'm certain they're very careful to record date and location for all their photos to make archival use possible. Reuters also does a lot of very pithy company reporting like this, I wonder if they collect catalogs of generic images related to this-or-that company to "illustrate" those articles. I bet there's some SEO need for it (e.g. an article with no image will be displayed in a far less attention-grabbing way). The second image of this three-paragraph article is a shot of logo on Twitter's headquarters from April.
- wtallis 4y agoI doubt it's an AI-generated caption. More likely it's just a file photo that nobody wrote a new caption for when preparing this particular article.