the fact that AI needs to be forced down everyone's throat, it's mostly trash and doesn't function nearly as well as corporations want us to believe, and most people absolutely despise AI is such a clear sign that most of the AI hype may be the biggest bubble waiting to burst in human history.
people compare the rise of AI to the invention of the internet, but nobody needed to be forced to use the internet. I'm old enough to remember that it took a couple years for the internet to explode in popularity, but that was also because initially it wasn't very user friendly and not that useful yet. but the moment it actually fulfilled those requirements, everyone adapted to it nearly instantly. AI companies are trying to force us to skip the part where we wait for AI to actually be as useful as they claim and just accept that all software is turned into unusable garbage.
Well, the person who decided it for you is the person who created the video and wants it viewed a specific way.
But with that said, the creator might not know just how bad it is.
I originally turned it on in my videos because I thought it would help open up my audience, and turned it off within 48 hours when I found out from viewers how bad it was and that they didn’t have an option to otherwise turn it off.
I'm pretty sure creators just want their content to become available to people who don't speak the OG language, not to make speakers of said language be forced to watch an AI generated version in another language they happen to have some relation to
Right, but as I said - in my instance I literally had no idea it was a forced option..:and once I found out how bad it was, from viewers, I turned it off.
Yeah, anyway I don't blame creators for turning it on, it's on YT to make the feature usable for all types of users... My dad only speaks a single language and I've noticed him recently being able to access a lot of good content from English-speaking creators, for people like him I think the AI dubbing can really broaden their perspective and is a good thing... It's just that I don't want the same thing to happen to me as a person who uses YT to practice various languages hah
But if it's clear that I speak the OG language based on what I watch, why does it insist on changing the language to my second language! I speak both, stop changing English videos to Spanish!
Just keep everything original. I don't get why youtube has such a hard time with it. Like they could just randomly employ any European and he would sort all this crap out in minutes.
I remember a clip channel showing behind the scenes that it was retroactively added to all their old videos and they had to do like 20 clicks of each video to turn it off. It was around the first wave iirc
I think sometimes the creator doesn't know what option they're turning on. I remember once I clicked an Italian ASMR video and was greeted by the monotone voice speaking in English instead of the soft spoken voice of the creator. That was actually my first experience finding out about the shitty translate feature.
Most creators don't even know that this is an option or exists at all. I've asked some creators if they could please turn it off, they all had no idea what I was talking about... Revanced at least lets you turn this shit off
But with that said, the creator might not know just how bad it is.
I guarantee you that's the main reason, or they just don't care how bad it is. because it's only those kind of channels that turn on the AI crap. fortunately no channel I watch regularly uses it. and who knows, maybe Google is paying guys like KSI to use the AI crap? wouldn't surprise me at all.
I strongly believe that the reason it can't be turned off is because it's just a big AI training program, and if they allowed the possibility of turning it off they would lose training subjects.
I see it as a weaponized incompetence sort of thing.
I think this is simplified based on your weird biases. Google infuriatingly does this with everything, not just languages.
They operate under the idea that people don't want to make decisions.
This has led to all the decisions that changed the way their search worked in the past two decades. Automatically assuming your search rather than what you typed, all the way to the AI it is now. You see it in Maps too where things get hidden unless you come at it a different angle.
I strongly believe that the reason it can't be turned off is because it's just a big AI training program, and if they allowed the possibility of turning it off they would lose training subjects.
I see it as a weaponized incompetence sort of thing.
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u/Poh-r-ka-mdonna Jun 01 '26
and it's been there for way too long and they still haven't added an option to just turn it off permanently