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YouTube announced two new experimental generative AI features today. Premium subscribers can soon try AI-generated comment summaries organized by topic, and a chatbot that answers questions about videos.

At this point why would you watch the video when you can have a shitty AI summary of the whole thing. Great idea.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh good. It's premium only. I'm safe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you thought the comment section was bad now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is for youtubers, so that they can hace a summary of the comments I guess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why don't they fix the atrocious automatic subtitles translation butchering first...

It's useless every time I accidentally activated it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could help you decide if the video was worth the 30 minutes or longer videos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“How do you find decent creators?” “Watch their 30-minute videos”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Before the 10 minute mark you probably have some idea if you want to watch more. But i agree finding good creators is incredibly difficult in the oversaturated market

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How do you usually know if you enjoy a movie? Is it not by watching it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So is it better to min-max everything? Including the videos that you might watch?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I get it, why stream the video if you can generate summary, why find creators if you can generate content, why attract people if you can generate comments, generate, generate, generate ...

I think I have a question concerning where do humans fit in all that, except for clicking ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I legitimately do not understand, who wants this? Sure, maybe I'm biased and maybe lemmy is going to be an echo chamber and be like "yeah, stupid Google!". However, for the life of me, I just don't understand. Maybe I am really just getting old, I feel like every company now is just trying to stick "AI" into things every way they can. If I cared about the comments, I'd read the comments. if I did care about those comments, that means I would want to read THEM. Who does this serve? I watch a video because I want to watch a video, I don't want a summary of the content I came to see. As a bonus to this rant, If I wanted shorts I'd watch them, hell you can't even remove them anymore, not that I could before since they always came back. It's like my doctor saying I shouldn't have a surgery to remove my reproductive ability because I might want it later. No thanks, I don't want kids and i don't want shorts, let me remove it.

It's getting harder and harder to do anything the way I want to do it on any platform. Things I value get taken away, like down votes, and i have to use other means to return them and yet stuff gets shoved in my face that I don't want. The algorithms are terrible too, half the time my suggested to watch are just tons of videos I've already seen from the most recent creator i watched. I love adam savages content but its background that I usually put on, I don't need every other suggested video being that, maybe pepper in some of the other creators. I follow hundreds of creators and those videos ive seen are all that can be suggested, really? Oh and by the way, have fun with trying to block ads 😊 Sure, what I'm doing now works, but for fucks sake I would watch an ad if it wasn't so toxic to do so. I just want a service that actually seems to care about serving. Not trying to tell me what I should want.

Tldr: angry man shouts at the internet, contributes nothing or any real solutions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like every company now is just trying to stick “AI” into things every way they can

They are. Investors are dumb as shit and throw money at whatever the current buzzword is. A couple years ago they were falling over themselves to invest in anything that mentioned "blockchain", now it's AI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's because platforms as a paradigm have failed. Their Achilles' heel has been found, end of story.

Not only in the Web, IRL too. The world is going to be P2P (which is the same as imperial, because an empire is a P2P network united by philosophy, I think I've even seen some passage by Marcus Aurelius with this general idea). Call me mad or just scroll further if this looks nuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This seems like it would be fairly useful for getting a quick sentiment on something like a tutorial, especially since they've removed dislikes.