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Honestly, the AI-driven subtitles are intolerable enough.
The sooner this AI bubble crashes and burns the better. If this trillion-dollar corporation can't keep up with the expected reputation... then it needs to stop claiming that's it's worth that much.
The argument of "just watch subs" falls flat when they're using AI to do soulless subtitling too.
Jesus fuck I hate AI so much. The other day Google AI literally gaslit me. I remembered a joke I had heard in a movie but couldn't remember the movie title. Google used to be really good at this kinda thing so I Googled it. The results were wrong and the AI was like "It's Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates".
Now, I've never seen Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates so I knew that couldn't be the movie so I told it "no that's not it". And what did the AI do? Did it say "oh, well then maybe it's this?" Did it say it didn't know? No, it doubled down insisting it MUST be Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates.
I COMMANDED it to stop suggesting it was Mike and Dave because it was definitely not it and it STILL kept saying that was the movie.
So I asked ChatGPT. Yeah, I know it's another AI but I was at my wits end here and Google was undeniably wrong. Anyway, ChatGPT figured it out instantly.
So I went back to Google and was like, "ChatGPT figured it out. It was 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' you stupid AI."
Rather than admit it was wrong, Google then gaslit me saying I was misremembering the movie and that it was Mike and Dave Nerd Wedding Dates.
I was furious so I told Google to prove it to me. Then it got all vague like, "well, I searched my database and web records." I asked for the specific records. It gives me a link to the movie script for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates on some website. I do a simple word search and do not find the joke anywhere in the script. Nothing even remotely close.
When I point this out to Google it was like" well, maybe it was adlibbed or not in that early version if the script, but it's in discussions of the movie so I know I'm right."
"Show me these discussions"
"Sorry, there are no discussions"
"So you hallucinated the whole thing and completely made it up?"
"Yes"
Fuck you, Google.
At any point in time did you ever consider doing a non-AI search? The sheer fact you say you hate AI… yet you continue to use it is a problem in and of itself.
The results were wrong
Yes... maybe I should have emphasized that the SEARCH results were wrong. And have you used Google lately? It forces the AI on you. You can't turn that shit off. At least not easily.
But yeah, apparently if I had asked Bing it seems that it would have gotten it. Who would've thought that Bing would now be better than Google? But even Bing forces Copilot on you.
So please, oh master of internet searching, what search engine doesn't force AI on you? I guess I could pretend it's 1999 and use Lycos...
Dude, ever hear of Duck Duck Go? It’s a more privacy focused search engine that you can turn off any AI summaries with one click. It uses Bings DB but its own interface.
Oh snaps, I forgot that existed, mostly because it used to suck. But if Bing's better than Google now...
I'm glad I asked and sorry for being such an ass. Well, mostly sorry ;)
So I went back to Google and was like, “ChatGPT figured it out. It was ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ you stupid AI.”
lmao
Bro tried to performance shame a chat bot
You know 15 years ago it was common pastime to see how quickly we could trick Cleverbot into admitting it was a chat bot and not actually intelligent. Now we have chat bots competing with us to prove that we must not be intelligent.
And they're winning.
The trick yo beating the Turing test isn't making smarter computers, it was making computers that make people stupider.
While not quite as long a thing I have had the ai do this. Maybe you are misremembering and its just that it could not find it.
So if I understand correctly, they fire professional voice actors and replace them with grotesque AI voice bots. I hope there will be more fandubbing in the future
Yeah, maybe with some kind of filter so a few people can sound like a whole cast of distinct characters, without necessarily mimicking any particular human being.
... wait.
Voice acting is so incredibly disrespected, its not a surprise at all they'd try to replace it with this garbage.
I recently watched Last Samurai Standing from Netflix I think, which I actually thought was pretty good, but I noticed the English dub seemed to use some kind of AI to make the character mouth movements match the English dub words.
At first it wasnt too noticeable, and I thought they had maybe filmed in English. But there was a lot of things that seemed like maybe they had some native Japanese people on the team because English speakers would have either not known about it or would feel culturally compelled to change it. Then at some point I noticed it, the mouths moving unnaturally. I think it was a close up of someone talking, but once I noticed it, it was pretty distracting.
I honestly like the idea though. It might actually be a legitimate use case for "AI," as some people are distracted when character mouth movements don't match the words they say, but in this case I think it is still too early for deployment. It was done well enough to pass on people that can't see very well, but it was pretty distracting for me once I noticed it. It would be too much work to try and film all the actors saying languages they likely don't understand to try and composite. Is it mandatory? No, but it would be nice for people that get distracted by mismatched audio.
On one hand: It's impossible to dub every single anime at a reasonable time.
On the other: I totally see the big companies refusing to hire real actors for dubbing because 'muh profits'
It's impossible to dub every single anime at a reasonable time.
I mean, not really. For all already existing ones, maybe, but for new ones? No reason for it to be impossible. The Japanese dub doesn't appear out of thin air. The Western streaming services companies just aren't willing to pay up.
I mean if you think about it, Japan solved that problem given that every series is already dubbed in one language.
Point 2 is true, Point 1 is simply not unless by reasonable time you mean immediately into every language.
Oh my god I fucking love these dubs.
It's so fucking bad.
I need more garbage like this in my life
Don't say it out loud! They'll actually do it!
Well good news, it'll probably run locally by next year.
I'd love to be able to watch any show from any language on like a one-minute delay, with the robot faking the original voices. But I'd also like a fully in-character version of Revenge Of The Sith with the infamously bad Chinese subtitles.