ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving

Re:ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving by KevinGlass on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:34AM (#34370129)

Sometime last year, someone published a guide on auto-generating subtitles using an emacs plugin and WhisperAI. A lot of anime release groups use it so they can get an English subtitled version of a show released a couple hours after it airs in Japan.

It's nice to have access sooner, especially for less popular shows that might never get any kind of release outside of Japan, but it's a lot worse then most fan subs and sometimes misses entire sections of dialog.

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Re:ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving by amalcon on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:43AM (#34370274)

That scene has long had the "janky but really fast translation" niche and the "good but takes a couple of days" niche. From what little I experienced of the former, people who cared about translation quality probably weren't using it anyway.

I've been away from all that for rather a long time, so I don't know. Still, I'd guess these robo-subtitles are probably replacing the "fast and bad" niche. The "slow and good" niche seems like it could survive.

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Re:ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving by sireat on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:36PM (#34373532)

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Re:ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving by thanatropism on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:58AM (#34370486)

I've been getting the advice (but I'm learning German, not Japanese) that the best thing is to watch shows with subtitles in the foreign language to gradually acquire it.

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Re:ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving by Oxidation on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:38PM (#34372795)

Lots of Chinese dramas with barely-parseable subtitles as well. Missing sections, and completely wrong contextual glosses, which are particularly easy to get horribly wrong in Chinese.

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