YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles

Post by altairprime » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #10

altairprime wrote: post #4

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It differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all. So, just as with Crunchyroll, better to kill the complex human artistic subtitles so that people don’t get used to their boring “could be machine, could be human, who cares” slop (and, as a bonus, so that human moderators aren’t required to evaluate whether the subtitles are offensively shaped).

It differentiates human-created content from AI-created content in a space where AI can’t perform competitively at all. Well, that certainly remains to be seen.

Post by pfannkuchen » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 6:42 AM UTC

Post by kingstnap » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 10:10 AM UTC

wpm wrote: post #12

Subtitles are parsed by their LLMs for the pointless summaries placed right below the video and for all the other boring, dumb stuff YT does with AI. See: https://youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8 (Poisoning AI with ".ass" Subtitles)

Post by wpm » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 7:08 AM UTC

kingstnap wrote: post #15

wpm wrote: post #12

Subtitles are parsed by their LLMs for the pointless summaries placed right below the video and for all the other boring, dumb stuff YT does with AI. See: https://youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8 (Poisoning AI with ".ass" Subtitles)

They aren't useless, it's nice for finding timestamps of things, especially in long content like talks.

Post by aurareturn » Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 12:39 PM UTC

wpm wrote: post #18

aurareturn wrote: post #14

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Is it pointless? I find myself asking for summaries of videos more and more often.

You should find yourself asking if those summaries are actually accurate, faithful summaries of the video content at all. Like, is reading a digest version of War and Peace the same thing as War and Peace?