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On social reality in China

255 points · 261 comments · thicTurtlLverXX

  1. jhallenworld · · focus · HN ↗
    An interesting recent phenomena is that regular Chinese people have figured out how to use AI to speak for them to make english language youtube videos. They are quite fascinating to watch, because you don't normally get such an unfiltered perspective. I think people feel safe posting these because nobody knows them in the west, whereas family, friends and govt. see Chinese social media. And of course youtube is banned in China.. Some of them make a few hundred bucks from Alphabet, this is a big deal.

    Here are a few (check out the comments- working class people from around the world make contact):

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@kangkanginchina7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@kangkanginchina7

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@Chineseruralareas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@Chineseruralareas

    Anyway, I view this as one of the more positive uses for AI.

    1. mostlysimilar · · focus · HN ↗
      Translation software and text-to-voice has existed for many years, why does AI make this any different?
      1. talon8635 · · focus · HN ↗
        AI is easier, faster, better, and deeply widespread
        1. krapp · · focus · HN ↗
          I was under the impression that AI was terrible for translating Asian languages (at least Chinese, Japanese and Korean) because it doesn&#x27;t capture certain contextual nuances. Is it actually good now? Are there bilingual speakers who use it and vouch for it?
          1. satvikpendem · · focus · HN ↗
            They likely use Chinese models which work much better in capturing those nuances.
            1. t0mpr1c3 · · focus · HN ↗
              Yes e.g. Qwen
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