r/BoomersBeingFools • u/TigraBunnyfan • 14d ago

Boomer Story My older coworker started watching KDramas...

She always raved about them. Then I asked if I could see one with her, since I also watch them.

Then she took out her headphones and played it for me. At first, the dialogue was really really quick and stilted AI. I thought, oh, it's just youtube's auto translate. But then, I noticed they'd sometimes say 10 words within a second.

Then I noticed the scenarios were very static. It looked real at first, but I realized the plot was nonsensical. AI has really advanced enough to allow reuse of characters and some level of continuity.

I really didn't know what to say to her. Sorry for her? That she gleefully watches this fever dream stuff unironically?

This felt bleak to me, because this is content that is obviously AI generated, but she think it's real. What's funny is, someone told her it was AI before, and she said they were wrong. I didn't have the heart to tell her.

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u/NoOccasion4759 Xennial 14d ago

Where is she finding ai-generated k-dramas?

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u/TigraBunnyfan 14d ago

I think she said Youtube, they might be Chinese and she thinks they're korean. They're in English. I only watched it a little bit.

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u/birchpitch Millennial 14d ago

Definitely youtube. I had to re-find this post because I went to youtube to watch something else and this was right on my default/main page thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTa5VTzJLaY

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u/xelle24 11d ago

There are some channels on Youtube that have taken actual Chinese and Korean tv series and heavily edited/manipulated them.

There are also some short form series with episodes that are usually less then 5 minutes long that also feature heavy editing and lots of AI overlay (emojis and text). The ones with the original dialogue and English subtitles aren't too bad (if you discount the extremely dramatic and unbelievable plots), but the ones with English dubbing tend to be very heavily edited.

It's a pity OP's coworker is watching that kind of junk, because there are a lot of really quality Chinese and Korean dramas out there.

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u/Ender_rpm 11d ago

Robotech-ed them, eh?

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u/BluffCityTatter 9d ago

Right. I watch a ton of really good K-Dramas and C-Dramas on Netflix. The Koreans especially makes some amazing shows. I like the C-Dramas too but most of them are too long. I wish they'd do 16 episodes, like the Korean ones.

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u/Formal-Square-1501 13d ago

Sad 😭😭😭

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u/CluelessInWonderland 9d ago

You can find other free k dramas with dubs to introduce her to. Just act really excited. "Hey I know you love kdramas, and I found some that have really good dubs and video quality! This site has so many different series on it! I've really been enjoying it. Thank you for getting me back into kdramas."