cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397
The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.
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Breaking news: “WW3 starts over an insult due to a mistranslated phrase at the G7 summit. We will be nuked in 37 seconds. Fuck like rabbits, it’s all we can do. Now over to Robert with traffic.”
There are plenty mistranslations in politics done by humans already.