[ sourced from The Verge ]
if it’s anything like their ai-powered subbing, itll be almost completely useless. it’d be one thing to have an ai read out user provided subs, but this article says the ai is gonna do the transcription too so lol gl
I see Youtube’s auto-subs pretty often when scrolling ReVanced in bed. They’re honestly fine. They’ll suffer when watching a video about something that isn’t a real word (like transcribing “Returnal” as “Eternal”) but otherwise it’s pretty good.
Transcription (as an accessibility tool) is one of the few things AI is an objective good for. Professional things should absolutely have official scripts and captions, but LLM-driven transcription allows hearing impaired users to interact with content made by randos like a Youtube video.
Even setting aside hearing impaired users, having reasonably accurate automatic transcription can help sort through endless video content to find the part you care about.
If you say so. I have also spent my fair share of time looking at the autogenerated captions and I’d say that on average, every other sentence is mangled in some way that makes it nearly impossible to understand. Maybe it’s better than nothing if it’s a video that someone really has to watch, but in general I think the existence of the autogenerated captions makes creators less likely to handle it themselves since they feel like it’s already covered.
