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YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 2 days ago by missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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These offer customization like colors, text styling and positioning and are used to distinguish who is speaking or for karaoke subs and are now potentially being lost forever.

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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

While I'm not quite sure about the exact reasons for the removal, here are some probable guesses:

  • it's a bug
  • the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable
  • It's getting replaced by something better/standardized as the current solution doesn't seem to always work properly in YT's apps
[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On the last point, it's probably not for something better or standardized, It's gonna be to push the AI captioning and dubbing.

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What have auto-generated/AI caption contents to do with the general format captions???

YT has auto-generated captions now for years, so why would they remove an unsupported, internal format because of that?

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

To encourage people to use the auto-generated ones and normalizing it.

I mean, I don’t see any other reason for them to remove a previously working format otherwise.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I'm sure auto-generated captions will work great for channels like Primitive Technology where there's no actual talking and the subtitles are describing what he's doing...

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable

It prevents AI summaries of the video from including all the video content. Obvious solution: remove the information missing from the summary from the video itself. Now they match! /s