Sam Altman is awful, and turning OpenAI into a for-profit is a crap thing that is making AI a worse influence on humanity. That does not provide Elon Musk some sort of excuse for trying to cripple his main competitor in the field using the court system. In summary, eat the rich.
I use Whisper to generates subtitles on occasion. If you use a tiny model, it is pretty terrible. If you use a large model, it does a pretty good job, even doing phonetic spellings of unusual names. The large model takes some real cpu time to do the analysis, and YouTube isn't gonna burn money for free features.
Yes, a metal machine with no pressure sensors, programmed by some dude in his mom's basement that has never lifted more than 10kg, is sure to be more gentle with luggage.