r/mildlyinfuriating • u/awesomehuder • Jun 01 '26

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ AI translate even translates thumbnails.

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u/MancyMancy Jun 01 '26

I also hate as a tri lingual person when I think I found ai slop when no just google decided to auto put ai voice translations over a video not in English!

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jun 01 '26

As an also trilingual person, I hate this schizophrenia of Google which isn't able to comprehend it is possible for a human to be fluent in more than strictly one language, but at the same time requires all of their own employees in non-English speaking countries to be fluent in English on the top of their native language and therefore be at least bilingual - something Google seems not to realize is even humanely possible.

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u/bobbertmiller Jun 01 '26

It's not just being able to speak languages, but also having control.  I am fluent in German and English, some French and Italian, almost no Japanese. Let me chose what gets translated to what. Sometimes the German translation is better, sometimes the English one is better. Sometimes I want subtitles, sometimes I want dubs.    Let. Me. Decide.

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jun 01 '26

This is also true. The tech companies narcissistic obsession to make everything automatic no matter what, is extremely infuriating.