One of the more disturbing things that happened at work when using MS Word, was the automatic addition of alt-text images. I didn’t ask for that, I didn’t click any “Please send my images to the cloud, possibly leaking sensitve material, so inference can be run there, to add potentially unhelpful descriptions”

Is document editing really a task that benefits from AI?

An example of unhelpfulness:

I’m torn between at almost praising meek half-assed attempt at accessibility, and shrieking to the heavens about this unweclome shoe-horned addition.