Google Bard can now watch YouTube videos for you
The YouTube extension gets a brainy upgrade.
Looking forward to buying the robot I can send to the movie theater to watch the AI-generated movie for me and come back and tell me what happened.
Then it can watch the fucking ads for me.
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?
You're not wrong, even the way the YouTube algorithm works pushes video creators to follow certain things to ensure they're videos get suggested by the algorithm. Shit like, someone's video is about making some crazy RC helicopter, I'd like to watch the video in chronological order, with discussion, planning, the build, then see the helicopter. But nearly every single YouTube video like this starts with 5-10 second clip of the end product, kinda removes the build up.
So years of that bullshit has forced video makers to do insanely fast jump cuts during dialog, because we can't have a normal human amount of pauses in speech, and all these other trends which have objectively made videos worse. On top of that, the inclusion of "video sponsors" so we can baked in advertising, and sometimes to the tune of quite a few minutes long. Algorithms seem like they make a lot of difference services objectively worse under the guise of improving the users experience.
I just don't watch videos with unnecessary jump cuts. They annoy me too much. If you can't do it all in one take, at least get a second camera.
To play devils advocate, a lot of what you described is just about the hustle culture of YouTubers and how the platform has evolved aside in its meta. People figured out that using an essay-like format and having a video hook gets more views. And that slow videos with less information get less views. All of that would’ve happened regardless of the company.
There’s also a hustle culture where these fun side projects are now jobs because YouTube pays their creators. That’s led to some good content, but also a mountain of trash. All of that happens regardless as long as YouTube is paying anybody.
The algorithm absolutely does a lot but the algorithm would exist regardless. All of this is inevitable because it’s how humans work. Also a lot of the content you ask for still exists, you just have to sift to find it.
YouTube is an interesting case because most of what they do wrong has little to do with algorithm and all to do with DMCA protections and poor discoverability (separate algorithms).
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."
Ublock Origin can. It's available for Firefox on Android. No similar options for iOS or TV apps that I know of, though.
But does it still watch the ads, or does it use adblocking?
The question to rule them all
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/
Holy shit, that indeed works. That's crazy...
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 🧞♂️
A boring panopticon
Talk dirty to me, Big Brother
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.
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 🤔
Video Essayists may get destroyed from this.
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.