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0 pointsLtWorf7mo ago0 comments

> But the real elephant in the room is that the lionshare of video is now being delivered by major media platforms like YouTube.

Youtube is dubbing videos with AI for no reason whatsoever if you play the videos from the website these days.

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noir_lord7mo ago· 5 in thread

I'm still curious how they thought that was remotely a thing anybody wanted.

The cynic in me says some PM rolled out it out because they had an internal metric to hit.

I know a lot of people who are bilingual (or trilingual) and they utterly loathe it.

LtWorfOP7mo ago

The only explanation I can give myself is that Americans can't comprehend the idea that a single person might speak more than one language.

It's pretty funny considering how google claims that their hiring practices make them hire only the most intelligent people on the planet.

Insanity7mo ago

I’m one of those who hate it. I’m trilingual, but when watching something in any foreign language I just want to read subtitles instead of “dubs”.

It is of course worse when it tries to do so on a language I already speak.

selfhoster117mo ago

I can see it being useful. Lots of people who don't know English are out there.

lukan7mo ago

Can't you just deactivate it?

LtWorfOP7mo ago

No idea, but also why is it activated when I've been watching english content on that account for several years?

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