Post #3609940

There are a couple of places that I still use or have used or plan to use things that are commonly rolled up in the "AI" bucket, and that I believe are fine. Because "AI" is a bunch of different technologies built a bunch of different ways, wearing a marketing trenchcoat. I use an automatic subtitle generation tool that is "AI" powered, but runs locally and isn't generating anything new, it's trying to identify a thing that already exists. The argument could be made that it was trained on stolen labor in that it was trained by matching existing subtitles to the audio tracks those subtitles correspond to. I decided I was personally comfortable with this, but I understand how other people might not be. It's wrong a lot, but it gives me a place to start from as I'm manually subtitling a thing, and saves me hours of transcription work. I think it's fine. I think it's good even, I like it and I want it to get better.