Bloomsbury tried an AI cloud service to generate alt text for the Fashion Photography Archive — 775,000+ images. The quality was too low to use, and the AI itself created a QA burden of its own. A useful negative result in a table full of success stories.
Benefits & outcomes
The honest lesson: at 775K images, automated alt text looked like the only feasible route, and it still wasn't good enough without human QA that undid the savings.
Publisher / company: Bloomsbury
Date of mention: 01/11/2024
Source: https://conferences.necsws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Conf-2024-Andrew-Sales.pdf