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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Works on some, but a lot of AI stuff uses a Speech to Text process to create the annotations themselves instead of trusting the provided subtitles.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The video mentions this as well as other practical limitations (like OOMing the youtube phone app lol).

Really there are fairly straightforward technical ways around these techniques -- out of bounds or invisible subtitles can be cropped, or individual letters can be formed into paragraphs the same way PDF readers do; but it's still funny that it works at all and involves the word ass.

It comes on the coattails of a long history of AI companies not caring at all about security, privacy, data integrity, or being nice people.

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 hours ago

We can insert quick speech fragments into the video, just like at the end of a radio commercial.