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YouTube's automatic and forced AI translation has to be the worst feature of this decade.

I wonder what proportion of decisions makers in youtube speak more than one language on a regular basis. I suspect it's near-zero.

At least it's optional.. YouTube thinks if you're accessing from country X, you want the video titles in language X. Utter fucking geniuses. I say "thinks", it sometimes does this and sometimes doesn't. And there's no "Leave the fucking titles alone" option anywhere...

Reminds me of IMDb pulling the same genius move of "Hey, here's the title of that movie as it was released in the region we've geolocated you in!"


It's not optional. It auto dubs stuff assuming no one in the world speaks more than one language or would rather listen to original audio with subs

Optional in the sense that there's a way to switch it back after a "wtF?! @#%$#@ you YouTube!!!"...

As a person mostly using AI for everyday tasks and business-related research, it's very impressive how quickly they've progressed. I would consider all models before 2.0 totally unusable. Their web interface, however, is so much worse than that of the ChatGPT macOS app.


Some aren't even at 2.0, and the version numbers aren't related in any way to their... generation? Also, what is so good about the ChatGPT app, specifically on macOS that makes it better?


I've experienced the opposite. Recently, I've been getting amazing results from Gemini running 2.5 Pro.


I run this app 24/7, mainly for the 'High Resolution' option. It's a lifesaver if you use a Mac without one of the expensive Apple screens.


In Japan/Taiwan they seem to be widely accepted. Most places in Japan that accept VISA/MC, also accept AmEx.


I'm quite curious about why you hated it so much.


One of my favorite episodes of Acquired. Truly inspiring.


Last year, I quit my very stable job in academia to join a brand new company as the employee number 1. I think that is as far as I can go even in this hypothetical scenario.


Very impressive, but no USB-C?


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