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 It’s not CNN, but #YouTube doing this. I’ve seen this happen to a LOT of YouTube Shorts. I’ll see a short in which the people are talking in a weird, unnatural way, and I dig in and discover they’ve auto-translated it from Portuguese or something.
The insidious thing is that they don’t INDICATE anywhere that they’ve done this. This leads people to misattribute the audio to the original poster.
I really, REALLY hate this “feature”. It’s offensive. It puts words into the mouths of people who never said them, and lies by omission about it.
I don't know if it affects folk who understand multiple languages more, but I've found YT randomly switches the language *and* subtitles, activating auto-translate when I don't want it (for instance a video of American mechanic comes up with auto-translated subtitles in German, but if I was watching a German video I'd leave the subtitles as they were without auto translate so I have 0 idea what they are playing at or why they do this as I've even put in some Google profile what languages I do understand)
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