VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

Re:VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles by lxgr on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:54AM (#42647489)

I definitely prefer subtitles to be as helpful as possible, yes. That includes having situationally appropriate metadata (which is different from "all the metadata, all the time").

I don't think that's an unrealistic goal to have for AIs; they're already extremely good at semantic scene description after all. By looking at the image in addition to just the audio track they probably also get a lot more metadata, which a refined world model will eventually be able to use just like a human subtitle editor can today.

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Re:VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles by soco on Thursday January 09, 2025 @12:25PM (#42647799)

So you mean, the AI should figure out when a problematic scene is coming, and only then add labels and whatnot? Not impossible, just somebody must teach them, same with subtitles positioning.

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