LukeW: using ALT tags to boost relevance of inline AI-generated images

LukeW · x · 2026-09-22

Luke Wroblewski published a new article on a practical fix for AI's wall-of-text problem: inline images help readability, but relevance is the hard part. His trick—using the humble ALT tag to give images context that doesn't exist in the image itself (e.g., noting an image came from the Reve app)—yielded big improvements.

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