Reddit seems to use Ai to analyze images, so the content can be indexed by the search. In example I searched for my name (which is also used for the my blog) to see if there are recent posts with “thingsiplay”, because I saw some spike in the stats. But what I instead found is a screenshot of a comment from me made in YouTube. There is no text attached to the post or title, so it must have analyzed the content, right?
https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=thingsiplay&%3Bt=week results in
and the post is
Or did I miss something and I make myself a fool here? Does any other community software or forum do this? Is this covered in their User Agreement?
Posting images on Reddit allow to add alt-text? And the user has to add the name as alt-text, otherwise it wouldn’t have one. I don’t remember that was even possible.
I think there’s an option to add captions. I left during the June strike wouldn’t know
You can add captions to images inside text posts - those are used for alt text. You can’t add alt text to image posts though.
Trust me, I would know.
Incidentally, they’re automatically adding the subreddit and post title together for the image’s alt text, which still doesn’t include OP’s name.