Facebook image descriptions

are these AI-generated?

[Image description: An adventurer lies relaxing in a cavern among her adventuring trophies, skulls and weapons and musical instruments. She's going to go storm a goblin fortress with her friends later, but first she wants to get her hair looking just right. She might have to rush donning her armor or be a little late meeting her party, but she's been working really hard lately, and she wants the surviving goblins to tell stories of her beautiful and terrifying hair. All around the image is text reading "Spend as much time as you want beautifying yourself before you go out, because you deserve to feel gorgeous."]

what is this?

FB-supplied text descriptions of memes, who knows why

who knows why

wild guess: maybe the descriptions are meant to allow vision-impaired people, who may use computers via text-to-voice generators, to fully enjoy the experience of stupid FB memes.

ah this makes sense:

Curious about image description and video description? Notice some of your friends trying to make more of their images accessible for everyone? Check out this helpful link from the American Foundation for the Blind on how it's done!

"#imagedescription : white background with green text that reads: “talk to yourself like you talk to someone you love” - Brene Brown. Underneath the text is the artreach.org logo"

[Image description: In front of snow-heavy pine trees, a warrior bearing a striking resemblance to Santa Claus waits in shadow, moonlight glinting off his sword. All around him is text reading "If the holidays bring trauma or depression into your life, give yourself the gift of recognizing that it's normal and reasonable. You are not ruining anyone else's fun. You aren't being selfish. Your mental health is more important than any tradition."]