AI accessibility reader in Acrobat is hallucinating and creating sexual and pornographic descriptions of completely normal charts, graphs, and images.

We rarely have had to use the accessibility feature for PDFs, but one client downloaded a very professional company report on labor market data, and was scandalized by the insane hallucinations that the AI screen reader was telling her were on the page: nude figures (see pic), charts on gay sex, and other completely unacceptable content for a company like ours. 

This is the kind of disastrous AI fail that can destroy our company’s reputation—through no fault of our own. If Adobe’s AI *must* create some kind of auto description for the screen reader, a simple “black and white image” or “chart” would suffice—instead of “Image of a nude figure,” or “Chart about HIV infections.”

What the actual heck. These charts and images bear zero resemblance to these descriptions, and those words appear NOWHERE in the entire document. Not OK. Yes, we can manually update the descriptions, but they shouldn’t have appeared in the first place. 

Adobe needs to fix this ASAP—or expect lawsuits to start rolling in.