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Something happens to you on Fedi: this is serious business

Something happens to someone else on Fedi: this is pointless drama

@Chasteen @mekkaokereke i like how every single Big American Problem goes through this pattern of like "there's a Big American Problem" -> "it turns out a lot of people predicted the Big American Problem with spooky specificity" -> "you will never believe this but they were ignored because of capitalism and/or racism"

I wish a very "death" to "ideas of queerness that solely limit the definition to gender/sexuality"

"Why are transphobic legislators persecuting this seemingly unrelated group!! That makes no sense!!" no actually it makes perfect sense, they're queer. That group is queer. Do you think bigots function within the strict arbitrary lines we drew for ourselves? Fuck no.

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

This is not generative AI.

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.

#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility