Charlie Stross on Nostr: VLC using an LLM to generate subtitles in realtime is actually a sensible use of LLMs ...
VLC using an LLM to generate subtitles in realtime is actually a sensible use of LLMs … but I'd be very interested in seeing how the LLM-generated subtitles match up to actual subtitles produced by humans, and an opinion by someone fluent in the medium's language as to how accurate they are.
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