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"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic
emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."
— Edward O. Wilson
Aufgeheizte Stimmung, Blockaden mit Misthaufen: Wegen massiver Proteste unter anderem von Landwirten haben die Grünen ihre Veranstaltung zum Politischen Aschermittwoch in Biberach absagen müssen. Laut Polizei wurden Beamte verletzt.
Na Berlin, ziemlich Kalt gerade oder?
Spendet mal für die Kältehilfe/Kältebus
https://www.berliner-stadtmission.de/kaeltehilfe#c2365
After many years and experiments, another conclusion I'd like to share:
- Make sure you "own" (well, technically: rent) at least one domain name with a recognisable but not "funny" name (my main domain is wildeboer.net)
- Only "buy" one of .com, .net, .org, .eu (when you live there) or your countries top level domain (TLD). Ignore all the fancy hype TLDs.
Your domain can become your digital identity authority that YOU control. This will become more important mid-to longterm, IMHO. 1/5
The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.
VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.
(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)
While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.
What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.
AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.
I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.
So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.
#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility
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