Guppy 🌹

Subtitles are incredibly subjective to a degree that people don’t realize. There are dozens of companies who have spent years shopping “automated” subtitling software to companies and those companies always wind up bringing those subtitles to a real company to repair

Automated subtitles, even when they are sort of accurate (which is extremely rare), are some of the most ugly unreadable subs I’ve ever encountered and it’s basically a scam

So I’m not too worried about that right now haha

I've frequently seen it on lists of soon-to-be-automated jobs, but thought to myself that computers are still really bad at communicating the nuance of human speech, especially in works of art, and probably always will be