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The autogenerated ones in Google Meet can be quite amusing at times.

simion314 6y ago
I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.
- erk__ 6y ago
  Well they already use it to decide if a video can be monetized so it is already happening in some sense. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?visit_id=637499425470515881-2173076687&rd=1&hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?visit_id=6...
- gambiting 6y ago
  They already do. There was the case just the other day where someone explaining chess strategy had their video removed for "racial violence" when talking about.....white and black sides of the chess board. Obviously google knows what was said thanks to the speech to text translation.
  - shawnz 6y ago
    It's not confirmed that's actually why agadmator's channel was removed. That was just a theory
    - TeMPOraL 6y ago
      Still, whatever in that video triggered the detector, that such ban happens at all is worrying. This, plus Google's penchant to ban you across the board for a perceived violation in one service[0], means you absolutely cannot trust Google with your speech. -- [0] - Examples abound; my favourite was the great many people who got banned after a YouTube livestreamer asked them to vote by typing in color emojis in the chat, and as they did so, YouTube spam detector banned their Google accounts.
  - simion314 6y ago
    Yeah, but I was thinking at people with non standard accents, there a large number of people outside US that make Youtube videos and their accent is tricking the AI and the automatic subs will contain random words. The AI will have a big bias against non US creators or even US people with an accent that is not popular in the Google training data.
- timvdalen 6y ago
  Relevant discussion from earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476

I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.

erk__ 6y ago
Well they already use it to decide if a video can be monetized so it is already happening in some sense. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?visit_id=637499425470515881-2173076687&rd=1&hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?visit_id=6...
gambiting 6y ago
They already do. There was the case just the other day where someone explaining chess strategy had their video removed for "racial violence" when talking about.....white and black sides of the chess board. Obviously google knows what was said thanks to the speech to text translation.
- shawnz 6y ago
  It's not confirmed that's actually why agadmator's channel was removed. That was just a theory
  - TeMPOraL 6y ago
    Still, whatever in that video triggered the detector, that such ban happens at all is worrying. This, plus Google's penchant to ban you across the board for a perceived violation in one service[0], means you absolutely cannot trust Google with your speech. -- [0] - Examples abound; my favourite was the great many people who got banned after a YouTube livestreamer asked them to vote by typing in color emojis in the chat, and as they did so, YouTube spam detector banned their Google accounts.
- simion314 6y ago
  Yeah, but I was thinking at people with non standard accents, there a large number of people outside US that make Youtube videos and their accent is tricking the AI and the automatic subs will contain random words. The AI will have a big bias against non US creators or even US people with an accent that is not popular in the Google training data.
timvdalen 6y ago
Relevant discussion from earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476