The only institution that worked in Brazil is gone
Giuliano Cardoso · · 2 min read
With the end of legendas.tv, its replacements don't come anywhere near the subtitle quality I was used to for more than a decade. Now every translation I see in my sources, except for anime and K-dramas, which have a very strong community, is of terrible quality, because it is made by AI, and in the worst possible ways.
More than once I have caught myself making subtitles with AI and fixing the mistakes, because I wanted to watch with subtitles. It is a pastime, maybe I will publish them, but since I watch things like “Collins from Accounts”, which is so obscure here that I won't even go into detail, I think I deserve my fate, because you can't find it even on those sites.
Anyway, I have always been a consumer; I have posted a torrent only a few times in my life, let alone something so obscure, and I wonder whether people would even want it. But I digress.
Besides, torrent is falling more and more out of use, at least from what I can tell; users prefer other channels, from Telegram to Filewarez. Anyway, I have my responsibilities: I run a Plex instance that I share with friends, for the kind of content that isn't even on the streaming services. Or, if it is, it isn't available to us here in Brazil.
It is hard to maintain, but it is more of a hobby for me.
Anyway, that's it. I just wanted to vent about the lousy quality of the subtitles I find in my sources. If it is going to be done by machines, I'd rather do it myself. Anyone who thinks AI will completely replace human work is a real sucker.