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[–] pennomi 12 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

f4mi's channel is fantastic btw, fun little deep dives on old hardware and games. highly recommend checking her stuff out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

the Smasnug investigation is amazing