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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&t=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?

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[–] sleepybisexual 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] thingsiplay 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sleepybisexual 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think there's an option to add captions. I left during the June strike wouldn't know

[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sleepybisexual 1 points 1 day ago