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.
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Algorithm cheating.
The text is almost always related to some story or video that has high numbers so it gets associated with that.
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.
FWIW I use a local ai model with the open source video editor KDEnlive to caption my videos.
Google auto dubs. Aaaaaaargh.
I’m with you. I’m often somewhere that sound would be inappropriate. Captions please.
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
