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YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles
- ggm 8mo agoI could believe this is a filter designed to simplify conformance to some YT standard. I could believe this is a side effect of something else. I could believe its a problem with some output devices (sw) of the nature of "oh I'm ASCII I can't handle UTF-8 encoded data" which doesn't have a good default. Is there some more direct profit/IPR motivated approach which directs this format of all others should be removed?
- altairprime 8mo agoIt differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all. So, just as with Crunchyroll, better to kill the complex human artistic subtitles so that people don’t get used to their boring “could be machine, could be human, who cares” slop (and, as a bonus, so that human moderators aren’t required to evaluate whether the subtitles are offensively shaped).
- CamperBob2 8mo agoIt differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all. Well, that certainly remains to be seen.
- altairprime 8mo agoIndeed. Fortunately, “cannot” is present tense, not future tense.
- efilife 8mo agothis just keeps happening over and over. And I can't find any logical reason why they are doing this. Surely you can't lose money due to supporting a colorful subtitles format? Ditch youtube. You most likely do NOT need it
- its-summertime 8mo agoThey still support multiple formats with color information
- slowdog 8mo agoEven still, it's not as much information and doesn't excuse deleting creators work without any warning.
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- ompogUe 8mo agoNot sure on their reasoning, but subtitle files _are_ an attack vector: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-one-battle-after-another-torrent-hides-malware-in-subtitles/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-one-batt... https://mashable.com/article/subtitles-hackers https://mashable.com/article/subtitles-hackers
- quietsegfault 8mo agoI mean, it’s sort of a vector. The malware itself can only be executed if you click a suspicious .lnk file. The moral here isn’t that subtitles are a “vector”, but to not indiscriminately run scripts.
- wpm 8mo agoSubtitles are parsed by their LLMs for the pointless summaries placed right below the video and for all the other boring, dumb stuff YT does with AI. See: https://youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8 https://youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8 (Poisoning AI with ".ass" Subtitles)
- aurareturn 8mo agoIs it pointless? I find myself asking for summaries of videos more and more often.
- expedition32 8mo agoHa hilarious all these content creators started making long rambling videos to make more advertising money. I have always maintained that I can read text faster but literacy is going down the drain.
- wpm 8mo agoYou should find yourself asking if those summaries are actually accurate, faithful summaries of the video content at all. Like, is reading a digest version of War and Peace the same thing as War and Peace?
- aurareturn 8mo agoFor videos with low enough importance, I do not care if the LLM makes a mistake here and there. For videos where with high importance to me, I can watch it myself.
- kingstnap 8mo agoThey aren't useless, it's nice for finding timestamps of things, especially in long content like talks.
- wpm 8mo agoSo...something you could do with the browser's built-in ability to parse text files, which YouTube could simply serve the subtitles to you as?
- pfannkuchen 8mo ago> Sure, it's not officially supported or even documented Conspiracy, or P3 bug?