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📣 emiliobumachar

Old thread – Video Lectures pulled for lack of Subtitles


I'm looking for an old front page HN discussion, quite popular at the time, about some US university that was admonished (sued?) for having auto-subtitled videos on YouTube, a breach of accessibility, and ended up pulling all content, at least temporarily.

The entity behind the push used a video of Lady Gaga visiting campus as an example of the auto-subtitler fumbling its job.

  👤 gfd Accepted Answer ✓
I know it happened to stanford's cs231n but also vaguely recall it happening to berkeley so I don't know which you're referring to: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/727618058471112704

Can probably search that tweet to find relevant threads

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519761

👤 romanhn
Sort of sounds like Berkeley pulling all lecture recordings due to the lack of subtitles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856 (there are a few threads covering this, though)
👤 vmilner
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039798

Is about Harvard and MIT being sued in 2015.