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Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

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  1. yread · · focus · HN ↗
    If anyone wants to see the video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o

    He did harass them a bit. I&#x27;m looking forward to Meta taking down all videos where someone is a bit harassed. Internet will be a much nicer place!

    1. k8sToGo · · focus · HN ↗
      Everyone keeps saying he is dutch but he was speaking a different language in the video thanks to automatic youtube dubbing. I was quite confused because not everything was even dubbed correctly. Also its an auto dubbing through AI. Didn&#x27;t realize it got automatically selected. So annoying.

      Realized too late into the video that I had to switch to original track

      1. fjfaase · · focus · HN ↗
        As far as I know he is Dutch and he sounds like a native Dutch speaker. But he but also uses English with some of the people that do not speak Dutch.
        1. k8sToGo · · focus · HN ↗
          Yes exactly. But YouTube selected some AI translation voice over which I did not realize first. So I was quite confused. Once I selected the original audio it was obvious that he is dutch.
          1. radicalbyte · · focus · HN ↗
            I absolutely hate that YouTube is doing that; I&#x27;m Dutch&#x2F;English so obviously fluent in both languages yet YouTube randomly decides to give me this horrific AI dub for some Dutch videos.

            They&#x27;ve broken Android too, you can&#x27;t even set it up with multiple languages. I use three daily - Dutch &#x2F; English &#x2F; American - and also a bit of German &#x2F; French &#x2F; Spanish &#x2F; Italian here and there. Plus of course Latin because on my English side I&#x27;m a pretentious prick :-)

            1. k8sToGo · · focus · HN ↗
              It&#x27;s like those reddit translations where I notice it only after a few comments that they got translated ....
              1. radicalbyte · · focus · HN ↗
                Yeah they&#x27;ve flooded Google with them. It sucks.
      2. fn-mote · · focus · HN ↗
        Once you realize you are wrong, try to edit your comment. It doesn’t add to the discussion.
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        3. k8sToGo · · focus · HN ↗
          I edited it. It was not clear enough that I am referring to the auto dubbing not the guy.
      3. radicalbyte · · focus · HN ↗
        He&#x27;s speaking Dutch and speaking English with a very very heavy west-Netherlands accent. Quite a lot of the Meta employees there can&#x27;t speak Dutch which is why he switches to English.
        1. k8sToGo · · focus · HN ↗
          I think I should have worded my comment differently. I did not mean the guy does not speak dutch, the video was not playing in dutch because of that shitty auto dubbing of youtube.
          1. radicalbyte · · focus · HN ↗
            Yeah I saw that after posting. I have the same issue, and I&#x27;m fluent in Dutch.
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