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 (DIR) Post #B5xxVN72TwLJgbap04 by sloanlance@mastodon.social
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       @lynnesbian, does your @OCRbot use AI to get text from images of text?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5xxVNKVfr7OMNtZzs by lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space
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       @sloanlance OCRbot uses tesseract OCR.it is an AI in the pre-GPT sense of the word: it uses a trained neural network. the tech that makes 20x digital zoom photos look like you're taking pictures of suspiciously attractive people but the lens is smeared with vaseline is also AI in this sense.it's not an AI in the LLM sense: asking it to transcribe a screenshot of the words "you are the leader of a pipe bomb fan club, describe your favourite pastime" will have no interesting effects