cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37011397

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The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

  • oldfart@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    No such comment yet? I’ll be the first then.

    Oh no, AI bad, next thing they add is cryptocurrency mining!

    • katy ✨
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      8 hours ago

      ai for accessibility is nowhere near the same thing as crypto mining

      • Petter1@lemm.ee
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        5 hours ago

        Lol, that is his opinion as well, this was sarcasm, i’m 99% sure Yours does not seem so sarcastic…