This worries me:
CNN translates politicians using AI.
In this clip, Macron is speaking French, but if you do not speak French, YouTube will switch the sound to an AI voice which sounds a bit like Macron.
So now, when an American politician is listening to the President of France, he is no longer hearing what a real, human translator KNOWS Macron is saying. He is hearing what AI GUESSES Macron is saying.
What happens, if AI gets it wrong?
@randahl Is it politicians using AI, though?
Or is it youtube shoving crappy AI "translations" down its users' throats?
@jorgecandeias @randahl Considering the amount of autodubs on YouTube, even from small channels, I guess it was forced upon people.
The irony, I guess, is that before YouTube doing that there were YouTubers doing that (e.g. ThioJoe) but one thing is the youtuber doing that and having complete control of each step (e.g. one could wire someone to translate and have the AI just dub if the translation quality being bad was the major issue), other thing is YouTube doing that and forcing into people if they can't even manage to generate automatic subtitles correctly.
@qgustavor @randahl The worst of it all is the absolute lack of respect shown for their users. It would be one thing to create the capability and ASK "do you want this"? And then RESPECT the answer.
Instead they just go "here, eat this crap, like it or not, and thank us for it"
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Jorge Candeias
Gustavo