Submitted 1 week ago by Lexam@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Every short video has captions on them suddenly and many times they don’t seem related to the video and just block what I’m trying to see.
I wish I could just filter out the ones where they bombard single-word captions like a machine gun. I couldn’t. So it turns out I just closed the app every time when I start seeing these videos.
Algorithm cheating.
The text is almost always related to some story or video that has high numbers so it gets associated with that.
its mostly AI generated, including the narraiton.
The unrelated ones I don’t get, but the closed caption-style stuff makes it more likely someone on the endless scroll will stop on your video when they have their apps set not to play audio unless the video is focused.
some non-english speakers understand better with subtitles
A lot of these videos are clip farmed “backgrounds” with content from the brainy-rotty-er sections of Reddit.
They’re meant to be “cheap” low effort content to get you to watch and eke out some monetization made profitable by quantity over quality.
So you can still consume them with the volume off
velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Probably AI.
On the subject, my millennial ass hates watching videos with the sound on. I’d rather read captions so if this is a real trend picking up and it’s not AI, then great.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Greetings, fellow millennial zero volume enjoyer ✌️
Mothra@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Another one here. I figured this would include more than just millennials?
yellerbadger@piefed.social 1 week ago
It’s probably great for the hearing impaired/deaf and ESL communities.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m with you. I’m often somewhere that sound would be inappropriate. Captions please.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
FWIW I use a local ai model with the open source video editor KDEnlive to caption my videos.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 week ago
tbh auto subbing (STT) is one of the few good uses of these LMMs. especially when there would be no subs otherwise
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Google auto dubs. Aaaaaaargh.