Concerns over AI surveillance in schools are intensifying after armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore when an AI gun detection system falsely flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm.
Allen was handcuffed at gunpoint. Police later showed him the AI-captured image that triggered the alert. The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.
… And? I strongly doubt that either screen readers or manual reading would resemble the same effect. The entire point of the image is to feel the same as I did after reading the article. Scroll down the page, see the image, realize. That’s captured 1:1 by the screenshot. And not at all by manually copy-pasting the text, and then putting the image (with alt text) underneath. That wouldn’t be an Aha!-Moment, but utter confusion, because - again - the text is entirely irrelevant. Copying the text emphasizes its content, screenshotting emphasizes the moment.
The only actually useful way to convey the message would be to add an alt text to the screenshot - which idk how to do on lemmy properly, in contrast to Mastodon.
Besides, which modern screen reader does not have at least OCR?