Not SEO optimized

The AI works alright on obvious images, but struggles with any real detail or description. The alt text is not sufficient for someone who is visually impaired and although it claims it is SEO optimized, it is not. There is no ability to factor in keywords to the images at all.

It’s a cool idea that has not been executed to the best of it’s ability. I’ll continue to do my alt text in ChatGPT or manually at this point as it’ll get me more than “two dogs in car” – it didn’t even try to note anything about their breeds, that they were in the backseat (which was obvious from the photo), or the size of them.

Update: The new integration with SEO is better but still needs work. 1/2 the time it over generalizes images like I said above with the two dogs in a car. Now it can include some SEO keywords which is great, but it’s only if it’s added at the library level if the image was uploaded inside of a single post. Since many of us re-use them across posts, it’d be great to be able to add the alt text at a post level so it can be varied per post. Otherwise your database gets bogged down.

I’d still love to see more specifics. I find with text on images it can read about two words then it gives up. I’ve also got about 1/5th of the generated alt text coming back with errors like “[text text text] I couldn’t read this” or “plane – airplane – sky”. If you’re limited on credits this would be a frustration.

All the being said, I am nitpicking because alt text is one of the most important things to be as a disabled user myself and with disabled family.

For 99% of bloggers this would be the perfect plugin. And it’s much better than keyword stuffing your alt text or not including any at all.

I share my concerns hoping they’ll develop the plugin more, as they already have. It;’s come a long way since I first trialled it months ago.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by nina2813.