diff --git a/backend/functions/src/cloud-functions/crawler.ts b/backend/functions/src/cloud-functions/crawler.ts
index 3e5dac0..a4a2c8f 100644
--- a/backend/functions/src/cloud-functions/crawler.ts
+++ b/backend/functions/src/cloud-functions/crawler.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import _ from 'lodash';
 import { PageSnapshot, PuppeteerControl, ScrappingOptions } from '../services/puppeteer';
 import { Request, Response } from 'express';
 const pNormalizeUrl = import("@esm2cjs/normalize-url");
-import { AltTextService } from '../services/alt-text';
+// import { AltTextService } from '../services/alt-text';
 import TurndownService from 'turndown';
 // import { Crawled } from '../db/crawled';
 import { cleanAttribute } from '../utils/misc';
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ export class CrawlerHost extends RPCHost {
         protected globalLogger: Logger,
         protected puppeteerControl: PuppeteerControl,
         protected jsdomControl: JSDomControl,
-        protected altTextService: AltTextService,
+        // protected altTextService: AltTextService,
         // protected pdfExtractor: PDFExtractor,
         protected firebaseObjectStorage: FirebaseStorageBucketControl,
         protected threadLocal: AsyncContext,
@@ -399,10 +399,7 @@ export class CrawlerHost extends RPCHost {
             const urlToAltMap: { [k: string]: string | undefined; } = {};
             if (snapshot.imgs?.length && this.threadLocal.get('withGeneratedAlt')) {
                 const tasks = _.uniqBy((snapshot.imgs || []), 'src').map(async (x) => {
-                    const r = await this.altTextService.getAltText(x).catch((err: any) => {
-                        this.logger.warn(`Failed to get alt text for ${x.src}`, { err: marshalErrorLike(err) });
-                        return undefined;
-                    });
+                    const r = "ALT TEXT!!!"
                     if (r && x.src) {
                         urlToAltMap[x.src.trim()] = r;
                     }
diff --git a/backend/functions/src/services/alt-text.ts b/backend/functions/src/services/alt-text.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 713d380..0000000
--- a/backend/functions/src/services/alt-text.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-import { AssertionFailureError, AsyncService, HashManager } from 'civkit';
-import { singleton } from 'tsyringe';
-import { Logger } from '../shared/services/logger';
-import { CanvasService } from '../shared/services/canvas';
-import { ImageInterrogationManager } from '../shared/services/common-iminterrogate';
-import { ImgBrief } from './puppeteer';
-import { ImgAlt } from '../db/img-alt';
-
-const md5Hasher = new HashManager('md5', 'hex');
-
-@singleton()
-export class AltTextService extends AsyncService {
-
-    altsToIgnore = 'image,img,photo,picture,pic,alt,figure,fig'.split(',');
-    logger = this.globalLogger.child({ service: this.constructor.name });
-
-    constructor(
-        protected globalLogger: Logger,
-        protected imageInterrogator: ImageInterrogationManager,
-        protected canvasService: CanvasService
-    ) {
-        super(...arguments);
-    }
-
-    override async init() {
-        await this.dependencyReady();
-        this.emit('ready');
-    }
-
-    async caption(url: string) {
-        try {
-            const img = await this.canvasService.loadImage(url);
-            const resized = this.canvasService.fitImageToSquareBox(img, 1024);
-            const exported = await this.canvasService.canvasToBuffer(resized, 'image/png');
-
-            const r = await this.imageInterrogator.interrogate('blip2', {
-                image: exported,
-                // prompt: `A formal caption in one sentence, concise and in the third person: HTML <img> alt text of this image. Return "**NSFW**" if you don't feel comfortable captioning it.`
-            });
-
-            return r.replaceAll(/[\n\"]|(\.\s*$)/g, '').trim();
-        } catch (err) {
-            throw new AssertionFailureError({ message: `Could not generate alt text for url ${url}`, cause: err });
-        }
-    }
-
-    async getAltText(imgBrief: ImgBrief) {
-        if (!imgBrief.src) {
-            return undefined;
-        }
-        if (imgBrief.alt && !this.altsToIgnore.includes(imgBrief.alt.trim().toLowerCase())) {
-            return imgBrief.alt;
-        }
-        const digest = md5Hasher.hash(imgBrief.src);
-        const shortDigest = Buffer.from(digest, 'hex').toString('base64url');
-
-        const existing = await ImgAlt.fromFirestore(shortDigest);
-
-        if (existing) {
-            return existing.generatedAlt || existing.originalAlt || '';
-        }
-
-        let generatedCaption = '';
-
-        try {
-            generatedCaption = await this.caption(imgBrief.src);
-        } catch (err) {
-            this.logger.warn(`Unable to generate alt text for ${imgBrief.src}`, { err });
-        }
-
-        // Don't try again until the next day
-        const expireMixin = generatedCaption ? {} : { expireAt: new Date(Date.now() + 1000 * 3600 * 24) };
-
-        await ImgAlt.COLLECTION.doc(shortDigest).set(
-            {
-                _id: shortDigest,
-                src: imgBrief.src || '',
-                width: imgBrief.naturalWidth || 0,
-                height: imgBrief.naturalHeight || 0,
-                urlDigest: digest,
-                originalAlt: imgBrief.alt || '',
-                generatedAlt: generatedCaption || '',
-                createdAt: new Date(),
-                ...expireMixin
-            }, { merge: true }
-        );
-
-        return generatedCaption;
-    }
-}