{"id":5415,"date":"2025-03-17T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=5415"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:21:15","slug":"comparing-local-large-language-models-for-alt-text-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/comparing-local-large-language-models-for-alt-text-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dri.es\/comparing-local-llms-for-alt-text-generation\">Dries Buytaert<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I have\u00a010,000 photos\u00a0on my website. About 9,000 have no\u00a0<code>alt<\/code>-text. I&#8217;m not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Going back and hand-writing <code>alt<\/code> for 9,000 images isn&#8217;t a job that most of us can fit into our lives and I empathize. Are computers up for the task finally? Rather than pick a model and wire it up and do it, Dries wanted to do some testing and pick the best option. The answer isn&#8217;t perfectly clear, but there are some decent options and other forward thinking ideas here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dries Buytaert: I have\u00a010,000 photos\u00a0on my website. About 9,000 have no\u00a0alt-text. I&#8217;m not proud of that, and it has bothered me for a long time. Going back and hand-writing alt for 9,000 images isn&#8217;t a job that most of us can fit into our lives and I empathize. Are computers up for the task finally? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,104,307,133],"class_list":["post-5415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-accessibility","tag-ai","tag-alt","tag-images"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image.png?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}