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Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos

carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

While I’m not quite sure about the exact reasons for the removal, here are some probable guesses:

it’s a bug
the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable
It’s getting replaced by something better/standardized as the current solution doesn’t seem to always work properly in YT’s apps

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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
On the last point, it’s probably not for something better or standardized, It’s gonna be to push the AI captioning and dubbing.

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- xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m sure auto-generated captions will work great for channels like Primitive Technology where there’s no actual talking and the subtitles are describing what he’s doing…
  
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- carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What have auto-generated/AI caption contents to do with the general format captions???
  
  YT has auto-generated captions now for years, so why would they remove an unsupported, internal format because of that?
  
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  - Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    To encourage people to use the auto-generated ones and normalizing it.
    
    I mean, I don’t see any other reason for them to remove a previously working format otherwise.
    
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Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

the unsupported, internal format - that allows for pretty much everything - is in some way exploitable

It prevents AI summaries of the video from including all the video content. Obvious solution: remove the information missing from the summary from the video itself. Now they match! /s

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