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Craptions
99% Invisible
How Ricky Pointer Overcame the Problem of Automatic Captions on YouTube
Ricky Pointer is a deaf YouTuber. In 2009, YouTube tried addressing the problem of closed captions by rolling out AI generated captions for some of their videos. Ricky started her YouTube career making videos about makeup and beauty products but she wanted to do something different.
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