Then it can watch the fucking ads for me.
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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Soon enough, the AI will be able to kill us and live our lives for us.
If its really intelligent it will know better and just leave us to suffer
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So, first they rewarded YouTubers for wasting ever more of your time, making you watch as many ads as possible, and now they're building a tool to sort through that whole crap content?
Thankfully... But ads will be interlaced seamlessly into the resulting summary.
But can it watch videos with me? 🥺
and if they make it beautiful , make it wear a lot of makeup, skimpy clothes and heels then fuck yeaahhh I am down to netflix and chill
That's cool and all but they could've just made sure the regular-ass search indexer was consistently aware of the video transcripts.
Many times I've searched for a video I'd seen using a specific quote I remembered from the vid... And got nothing, and had to painstakingly find the video manually.
This is what pisses me off about the modern internet more than anything else. Most things don't need to be a video. Written prose works so much better for most information content. This is how the internet used to be before YouTube.
My man. Thank you. I have been screaming at my wife about this for years as if it was her fault. I’m really starting to think it’s because a lot of people are low key border line illiterate.
Can it block the ads on YouTube?
No, you have to read a text summary of at least two ads before it gives you a text summary of the video. And the text summary of the video is broken up with other text summaries of ads.
"Basketball player and genie, Shaquille O'Neil is holding a dominos pizza box and asking if you'd like to Shaqeronni your evening."
You’re joking but that’s possibly how this is gonna be monitized in the future. In the end it might just look like current day news articles with ads interspliced throughout.
So basically we're back to banner ads from the 1990s internet? Or even further back, newspaper ads?
Ublock Origin can. It's available for Firefox on Android. No similar options for iOS or TV apps that I know of, though.
If TV uses android (for example fire stick) you can use https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Also not on iOS but android you have ReVanced: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/blob/main/docs/README.md
With Android you also can use Firefox, where you can install uBO.
Would be great if it can watch a video and generate timestamps for me to skip to specific sections.
From what I remember it kinda does. I searched for something(accidentally on Google. I exclusively use ddg) and it showed a video with a specific timestamp with that exact information. Impressive. Not really worth it since I can read rather than watching some dude making thumbnail crazy face about new Svelte update.
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But does it still watch the ads, or does it use adblocking?
The question to rule them all
Just use https://www.summarize.tech/, and if the transcript is too long, send it to a summarize like Kagi.
Yo dawg.. I heard you liked summaries so I summarized your summary.
It's going to devolve into the ai telling you "good," "bad," "very good," or "very bad" for everything and you won't even need to watch it.
Holy shit, this is a hilarious idea but also terrifying.
Kagi can summarize YouTube videos directly.
Oh cool, just tested with !sumk on random YouTube share link in Safari on iOS and it worked like a champ.
Even when I asked about how to do this in the Kagi discord channel I didn’t get this answer, so thanks! To everyone else, check out Kagi, it’s awesome :)
All this will do is piss off creators due to monetization reasons, lead them to complain against YouTube, forcing YouTube to change their monetization process, which will lead to again changing the way videos are made.
And at the end, they will find a way to again shove ads in your face more efficiently.
This will be handy whenever someone responds to a comment with "this link proves my point!" And a link to an hour-long ramble.
Anyone can already summarize YouTube videos: https://www.summarize.tech/
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I wonder if Bard can plain watch you. Like you consent to have Bard use your webcam the entirety of the time its open and even if you detoggle or choose to disable and de-permission it explicitly. What a time to be ~~watched and tracked perpetually~~ alive 🧞♂️
On that note, can phones bring proper borders back? Damn hole-punch cameras make it unnecessearly hard to cover them up
Bezel = Life
android now lets you disable the camera on an OS level. Not quite as good as hardware, but close.
Is this new with Android 14?
No it's been around for a couple of years
Do you mean the sensors toogle that you can enable from the developer options?
Or is there actually a separate feature for this?
No a seperate feature. It should be in your quick toggles but may depend on your oem
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A boring panopticon
Talk dirty to me, Big Brother
This is why webcams have a little light next to them to indicate that they are active. If it's on when it's not supposed to you know you've got a problem to fix.
I still cover 'em. Just need one for iPhone 🤔
I think Google and other companies would like that. Particularly to watch your eyes and see what draws your attention on the page. For the ads, obviously. Because we live in the worst timeline.
Video Essayists may get destroyed from this.
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