Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...
I get your point, it’s just hard to give a shit when one amoral megacorp takes some profit away from another. Google owns and profits from YouTube videos and occasionally throws a few pennies to the creators if they haven’t broken this week’s selection of ever-changing arbitrary rules.
Probably Google just wants to block them not because they care about the creators but because it’s costing them bandwidth money.
From the new agreement that they had with warner bros for creating closed captions, it looks like Google is also stealing the subs for training, they had direct access
It just sucks that someone pays hundreds of dollars to have a human create subs for a show, then that is used without credit or permission for training a model (actually whisper accidentally credits moments of silence with the name of the subbing groups used for training)
I get your point, it’s just hard to give a shit when one amoral megacorp takes some profit away from another. Google owns and profits from YouTube videos and occasionally throws a few pennies to the creators if they haven’t broken this week’s selection of ever-changing arbitrary rules.
Probably Google just wants to block them not because they care about the creators but because it’s costing them bandwidth money.
From the new agreement that they had with warner bros for creating closed captions, it looks like Google is also stealing the subs for training, they had direct access
It just sucks that someone pays hundreds of dollars to have a human create subs for a show, then that is used without credit or permission for training a model (actually whisper accidentally credits moments of silence with the name of the subbing groups used for training)