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 The fuck is the point of original audio if you're just going to shove this down our throats, YouTube? I don't NEED to speak the language to PREFER whatever language they were actually speaking. Especially for French where I'm not fluent but know enough of the words that it's harder to bullshit me on what they're saying if the statement happens to have words I already know or are phonetically similar to other words I know in different languages like, oh, I don't know, ENGLISH?!
That's presumably why you also auto-translate subtitles, but fuck me for preferring subtitles which are typically more accurate and quicker to roll out if actually done by a human.
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