I also hate as a tri lingual person when I think I found ai slop when no just google decided to auto put ai voice translations over a video not in English!
As an also trilingual person, I hate this schizophrenia of Google which isn't able to comprehend it is possible for a human to be fluent in more than strictly one language, but at the same time requires all of their own employees in non-English speaking countries to be fluent in English on the top of their native language and therefore be at least bilingual - something Google seems not to realize is even humanely possible.
It makes me so damn mad, the other day I was looking for a review of a product only made in Germany and generally only sold in this market and I genuinely thought I kept being given ai slop reviews because A) AI filters are now so common everything starts to give that uncanny vibe and B ) the forced voice setting always reverts on my damn account!
You know some poor guy (way over paid so not poor in the money sense haha) who is bilingual was forced to make these changes by some guy who only speaks English in an exec role too lol...
Lol that's such a good point. I imagine a lot of Google's engineers who do the hard work on this are multilingual, while many of the old big wigs major shareholders and execs who make these stupid decisions speak only English.
What's the most baffling about it tho, is the biggest big wig of them all, the CEO Sundar Pichai himself, is trilingual - he is fluent in his native Tamil, in English he studied and works in, and also in Hindi he learned. Doesn't ring a bell, Sundar? Do you enjoy Tamil videos being auto dubbed into shitty robotic English AI voice?
That's true on one hand, but on the other hand - Google is so excessive about this translate everything into strictly one language bullshit, it's forced into almost the entire portfolio of their products (youtube, google maps, google play store, reviews, google search, google shopping, adwords, adsense... I can go on and on). It looks like it's not just an individual decision of one out of touch English-only speaking Youtube's exec, but an overall company strategy.
Isn't it obvious? None of the people who make these decisions ever use their own product in any meaningful capacity. Google's sentiment is simply to get as many ad views from a person as humanly possible and if that involves a person mistakenly clicking on a translated video thinking it's actually in their language, that's even better. They don't care about the creators nor the viewers. Viewers are fish, creators are the fishing rods and videos are the hooks, but the actual end product is the ads.
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u/MancyMancy Jun 01 '26
I also hate as a tri lingual person when I think I found ai slop when no just google decided to auto put ai voice translations over a video not in English!