Amazon Prime replaces accurate human subtitles with error-riddled AI ones on 12-year-old show
burdgod · reddit · 2026-10-18
A Reddit user complains that Amazon Prime Video replaced the near-perfect human-made subtitles of the 12-year-old show "Over the Garden Wall" with AI-generated ones: at least 3 errors in the first 5 minutes, including rendering the main character's name "Greg" as "Craig." They also cite an old anime whose dub was AI-modified to match the subtitles, destroying the original sub/dub divergence. The core question: why swap existing high-quality human subtitles for cheap, error-laden AI ones? It points to streaming platforms cutting costs by re-doing back-catalog subtitles with AI at the expense of quality.
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