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“I’m fine with Asians, but Russians are Asians. They have a completely different culture, vision. Our key difference from them is humanity.”

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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I translated it using AI

I’m interested in how far we’ve come with this. What software did you use?

[–] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't spend too much time on it, and it could probably be done better. I just used free web tools to download the video and autogenerate subtitles. The text at the section I mentioned says this:

с азиатами наизусть меньше и меньше культура и

ценности нашей ключевой минус России.

Fed into google translate, we get this:

with Asians by heart less and less culture and

the values ​​of our key disadvantage of Russia.

Again, results weren't great (which is why I didn't post them the first time. Someone with more time on their hands could do better). But it hits a lot of the same words as the native speaker's quote, and it seems to indicate something racist is being said. The first auto-subtitler I used was completely useless, the second was "good enough" for my purposes. I have no reason at all to believe that the original translation was fake, and this didn't contradict the original translation.

If I were to try a third time, I would probably upload it to youtube and try using their tools, but I didn't really want to upload it to my youtube account. Google's natural language processing is pretty good.