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Foxboron@chaos.social

Morten Linderud

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jeisom@hachyderm.io

Jonathan Isom

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@Foxboron Is this about the subtitles feature? I don’t see anything wrong with it if it is all done on device.

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f4grx@chaos.social

F4GRX Sébastien

Reply to @jeisom@hachyderm.io

@jeisom @Foxboron the wrong is AI, device or not. We never asked for that. It's just mindless hype. If some people still want it, then it should just be a separate plugin, so we can entirely ignore it if we dont want it. Thats what plugins are for.

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Foxboron@chaos.social

Morten Linderud

Reply to @jeisom@hachyderm.io

@jeisom

It's a bit of social commentary on the AI marketing, really.

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tomw@mastodon.social

Tom Walker

Reply to @f4grx@chaos.social

@f4grx @jeisom @Foxboron The problem here is that generative AI (makes slop, is bad for artists, etc) and cloud-based AI (uses massive amounts of energy) are creating this kind of blowback for local-only, potentially-useful features if the term "AI" is used anywhere

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f4grx@chaos.social

F4GRX Sébastien

Reply to @tomw@mastodon.social

@tomw @jeisom @Foxboron even basic uses of machine learning, like speech codecs, will fail in spectacular ways when presented with unexpected inputs.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @Foxboron@chaos.social
Edited 13 days ago
@Foxboron ... which can be disabled from the settings. I don't want to use it either but it is not like the first feature ever that I dislike :-) So yeah I do agree that AI crap sucks but I don't see this VLC feature as such a big deal.

I still use Audacity too...
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amberage@eldritch.cafe

Mx Amber Alex (she/it)

Reply to @Foxboron@chaos.social

@Foxboron I think I'm missing the punchline?

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Foxboron@chaos.social

Morten Linderud

Reply to @amberage@eldritch.cafe

@amberage
The punch line is the VLC image.

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henrik@eliitin-some.fi

Henrik MPEG-1 Slayer 3

Reply to @Foxboron@chaos.social

@Foxboron @miiko can't it be trusted anymore?

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miiko@some.evvk.fi

miiko

Reply to @henrik@eliitin-some.fi

@henrik @Foxboron AI, bro…

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henrik@eliitin-some.fi

Henrik MPEG-1 Slayer 3

Reply to @miiko@some.evvk.fi

@miiko @Foxboron what? 😅 I need links. 😅

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miiko@some.evvk.fi

miiko

Reply to @henrik@eliitin-some.fi

@henrik @Foxboron

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

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