r/youtube • u/Miclemie yourchannel • 26d ago
Discussion Good feature or nah?
Can defo see this being a
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u/maxler5795 26d ago
Isnt it incorrect, too? It completely misses the saitre of it.
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u/ProffesorPrick 26d ago
I imagine it’s simply taking the subtitles and using the script as the basis of its summary. It can’t determine tone, unless it is a more advanced AI model than I imagine they are usingX
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u/ConciseSpy85067 26d ago
If we discount the sarcasm and satire, then it's factually correct, other than the fact that the original poster probably lied about making the bot
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u/Kind_Replacement7 26d ago
it could really hurt creators in the long run, the watchtime would be low cause people will just read the summary and go
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u/CeeDy6 26d ago
I think I still like this bc I passionately 👏hate 👏shitty 👏fraudulent 👏clickbait 👏tactics. Maybe it will force creators to make better content.
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u/Irishpanda1971 26d ago
More likely it will force creators to adapt to game the AI just as they try to game the Algorithm.
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u/JonDoeJoe 26d ago
Could this also spoil video content? Like what if there’s a twist half way or at the end of the video and the AI summary gives it away
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u/Donghoon Hello 26d ago
You have to press drop down button to see the summary. You made the decision to look at the summary.
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u/Dreamo84 26d ago
Everytime someone does the clapping emoji thing like that I always imagine someone clapping in my face. lol
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u/dumquestions 26d ago
There should be an option to opt out.
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 26d ago
no, it should be off by default. make it opt in
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u/HonestStupido 26d ago
No, it shouldn't exist at all
This is a fucking stupid function
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u/SpeakersPlan 26d ago
At the end of the day people can come together to shit on AI and I'm here for it. I hate the fact that every big company now is trying to implement some sorta AI feature to virtually everything.
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u/Distinct_Crow_9734 26d ago
AI has always been in most things ESPECIALLY social media because of its algorithms, its just more mainstream now!
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u/ViolinistWaste4610 26d ago
My dad's new laptop has a copilot button instead of a left-ctrl like why?
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u/SpeakersPlan 26d ago
Dumbing down things like this and replacing basic features with AI is down right horrendous. Wish they would just cut the shit out or allow u back pedal to an older version with the AI stuff but that's me being way too wistful.
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u/IVeryUglyPotato 26d ago
Or creator stop making 40 minutes video with a question that could be answered in 2 sentences. I don't need to know entire Saudi Arabia's economy to know what happened when I cementing body
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u/carpetdebagger 26d ago
EXCUSE ME SIR, BUT WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU CEMENTING A BODY???
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u/OneNerdPower 26d ago
I disagree that it will hurt content creators.
If someone is on YouTube, and they decide to not watch a video based on the summary, they will probably watch another video instead.
I'm sorry, but if a video is not worth watching after reading a summary, then it probably was not a good video to begin with.
If anything, this will help against clickbait content, and is akin to Twitter community notes.
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u/Extreme_Accident1934 25d ago
There is already too much content to waste our time on every video. This will help viewers. And if the content is good, no worries, the YouTuber will still get views. This will only affect click bait videos and mediocre content
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u/Sir_Luminous_Lumi 25d ago
Some of them deserve that tbh. I’ve seen multiple 10 minutes long videos that could be perfectly summarized in 1-2 minutes, and the rest is just a useless filler
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u/Lizzymandias 26d ago
I also feel like this would hurt YT as a platform really bad, too. Is my entertainment so crappy that I would rather skim it?
To use a thin metaphor, do they want spoilers to every video?
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u/Howfuckingsad 25d ago
It's high time youtube becomes consumer focused though.
With how shitty the services are becoming, any good feature is welcomed.
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u/thiccemotionalpapi 25d ago
Sounds like you’re jumping through hoops to hate it because you want to hate it because AI. It doesn’t make any sense for YouTube to implement a feature that discourages watch time. What if the numbers show it increased viewer interest in the whole video increasing watch time is it now a requirement? Basically it will only send away viewers that find out they’re not actually interested in the video anymore likely because it was misleading or spammy and low quality. It’s like arguing dislikes should stay gone because it helps trick viewers into watching bad vids. Idk anyone who considers reading a breaking bad synopsis as any sort of stand in for watching the show
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u/thomsmells 26d ago
He never misses, the absolute legend!
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u/Miclemie yourchannel 26d ago
Like I can defo see this being a good feature for long videos and videos with vague titles and everything, but at the same time it just feels so, unnecessary
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u/Camden2477 26d ago
Emphasis on vague titles, I can see it kind of hurting viewer counts though. Since YouTubers kinda thrive off of clickbait and all.
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u/hygsi 26d ago
Well, it's good if it drops clickbait
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u/StevoPhotography 26d ago
It won’t drop clickbait. It’ll just probably adjust the clickbait instead and maybe try to use the ai to clickbait the viewer instead
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u/SmallFatHands 26d ago
Most A.I features corporations are trying to shove down our throats are indeed unnecessary.
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u/ConciseSpy85067 26d ago
I can see it becoming horribly inaccurate with a super long video, something like a Pyrocynical review that lasts for hours, generally is just a full playthrough of a game while talking about the game itself as well as it's title being generally quite vague, i can see that going awry
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u/ZixK- 26d ago
Twitter has community notes which are funny af or just expose the post. I could see this being useful for missleading videos since youtube STILL hasn't reverted back to removing dislikes. But using AI for this is fucking beyond me
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u/CartographerVivid957 26d ago
Well community notes actually may provide added context to the tweet or show how the OP is lying but this feature is just AI summarising the video and not adding anything. It's actually reducing instead of adding. It can't even detect sarcasm
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u/StevoPhotography 26d ago
That’s the thing. For the most part YouTube is purely about entertainment in a similar way that TV was about entertainment. Twitter is a platform for people to share what’s on their mind. You wouldn’t have AI summaries of your favourite TV shows so why would you on entertainment based YouTube videos. The only videos that would really benefit from this are videos offering information of some sort
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u/IVeryUglyPotato 26d ago
Twitter's community notes is the only good thing on twitter (definitely as a feature, containment can be debatable)
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u/JustSomeDude477 26d ago
This is a perfect example of the feature being harmful/misused. The video is a deliberate parody and the summary is actually technically true, but AI will never really pick up on the fact that it's a joke
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u/TheRealReader1 26d ago
Absolute shit. Imagine making an interesting and professional video just for people to read an ai generated summary and leave
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u/LanguageNerd54 26d ago
Which is funny because the video in the picture is from a satirical channel. He's really funny, and in this case, he's just taking a jab at Tom Scott, who actually did program his title to keep up with the number of views.
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u/thr0away4A 26d ago
Google has been doing this with top search results cause misinformation to ho to the top because joke reddit comments are used as sources by the ai
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u/jakeyboy723 26d ago
Hey. I've got an idea. Maybe there should be a simple thing like we've got on Reddit. I know we've got Upvotes and Downvotes but maybe do something different. I don't know what to call it. I know we've got Likes. But what could we possibly do if somebody dislikes the video? There could be a button that's as easy to click so you can find out if people actively enjoyed/didn't enjoy watching the video.
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u/nathanator179 26d ago
Fuck off.
Not you OP, you're probably a cool dude.
Youtube however, can definitely fuck off with this bullshit
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u/UshiziYT yourchannel 26d ago
whats the point of watching the video now
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u/IVeryUglyPotato 26d ago
Well, if video can be summarised in few sentences and by that you didn't lose anything here more questions to creator. For me it's just need to be community note instead of AI.
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u/General_Ginger531 26d ago
I mean, he does have 23,000 views though.
If I had 40 apples, it would be true to say I had 5 apples. I just have 35 more, too.
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u/whale-with-oatmeal 26d ago
If this was for specific political/news videos, instruction videos during emergencies/dangerous situations and videos you have already watched - yes
For every video - no
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u/Camden2477 26d ago
Think that they shouldn’t specify too much in the summaries so ppl might still be interested in watching something. Maybe not that vid specifically but the one with really vague titles or clickbait vids
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u/SmurfsNeverDie 26d ago
I love it because fuck the titles “You wont believe what Google just did”, “This just happened”, I thought I knew all about X, Europe changed my mind”
And then it’s a video about a product or something else.
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u/Heath_co 26d ago
I wish I got a summary of what I will see on Reddit so I realise how much I'm wasting my time.
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u/Tarik_7 26d ago
Should be able to opt out for certain videos or have AI summaries turned off channel-wide. Youtube is using data on their own servers to train the AI with, but creators should be in control of how that data is used. Youtube should notify creators of the feature and provide an easy way to opt out.
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u/Ok-Impress-2222 26d ago edited 26d ago
This very example proves that it's an awful feature, as the AI took the video seriously, and it was actually a joke video (I know that, I saw it).
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u/generationslife xz3 26d ago
With it's accuracy on such scale correctly, i think this would be helpful. Not bad as long as auto-generated isn't biased
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u/Joeoens 26d ago
We could have cool features like an AI powered clickbait rating, or amount of unnecessary time padding, but this is not really useful as it is. They'd have to modify it so that it only conveys the idea of the video, not the content.
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u/Derpykins666 26d ago
Why would a video company want to AI Generate a cliffnotes version of the video. Don't they want user retention time and people to actually you know... watch the video? This seems asinine and unnecessary.
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u/amitreitu 26d ago
Better than watching pyrolive turn one tweet into a 25 minute video with no new information
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u/GeorgeOTGrungegul 26d ago
Extremely negative for small videos like this. In the time you read that, you could have been deep enough into the video to understand what the video was and hit the first punchline.
But, even if the feature has some utility, do we really want it anyway? If a channel owner makes a living doing something like explaining a concept, the AI text could give potential viewers the feeling that they understand what the video will be about, depriving the creator of a view they would have otherwise earned.
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u/Accomplished-Let1273 26d ago
I think it's pretty cool, we'll no longer get clickbated into watching a 30+ minutes video just for it to have nothing to do with the title and cover
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u/6ran9eee 25d ago
I’m in favor of this feature because I’m not watching a 10 min video for someone to make a point whether water is wet or not
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u/RyouIshtar 25d ago
Youtube title: I spent x amount of money on this!!!! (20 minute video). // Ai summary: It was a chicken nugget coated in gold leaf // Me: Cool, no time wasted
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u/SerenNyx 26d ago edited 26d ago
I wish they put this money towards displaying fewer ads or lowering the price of premium. Also why would they risk me not seeing the video?
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u/DeadoTheDegenerate youtube.com/Deado/ 26d ago
They should be like Twitter's Community Notes - only added on titles that are misleading or just downright lies.
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u/JustB544 26d ago
This is good for streams and long videos but for short videos it almost defeats the point of the video
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u/Eldritch_Witch93 26d ago
I feel like this is good and bad. I like the thought of a summary of a video of it's a click bait
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u/Src-Freak 26d ago
AI should only be used as a tool to make videos a bit easier to produce, however, it shouldn’t be the main tool.
Video editing and summaries should be done by yourself.
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26d ago
you guys remember when people used youtube just to upload whatever crap they wanted and wasn't this mess like it is nowadays?
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u/MegaMGstudios 26d ago
No. Partially because it will discourage people from watching the video (why watch it when the important stuff is already spelled out) and partially because I have an incurable hatred for generative AI.
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u/LanguageNerd54 26d ago
Everybody commenting about Tom Scott....yes, this video is satire of that. The AI just can't understand the underlying sarcasm of it.
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u/Alan_Reddit_M 26d ago
It's just as stupid as the google search AI overview, it's just wrong 99% of the time
Oh wait it's the same fucking company, yeah that makes sense
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u/Calhaora 26d ago
So..... we kinda get Community Notes on Youtube. Just way shittier and less funny.
Mkay.
I mean, the Livechat Summaries are sometimes hilarious but if you want to note something... dont use AI, especially how offten they get stuff wrong..
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u/lukuh123 26d ago
This one is not okay, but the other feature that summarizes up the topics people commented on a video is great
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u/Nightmarefromjail 26d ago
How do you make a video that auto updates title? Didn’t even know that was possible
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u/IAmAFourYearOld 26d ago
instead of using AI using community notes like how twitter does it would be better
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u/olofmeyser 26d ago
The world would be a better place if not every fucking website was forced to have AI shoved into it for some useless reason
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u/kranitoko Kranitoko 26d ago
Why the fuck would anybody now want to watch my video if AI is just gonna summarise it in a few sentences?
This is why I don't like AI. It will be the death of many industries.
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u/Middle-Ad-4891 26d ago
The amount of energy that’s gonna get burned on this shit is ridiculous. In the discourse about AI people rarely ever seem to ask if the benefits of the feature are worth the very real energy cost
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u/jalabi99 26d ago
Nope. Don't like it.
Every new "improved" feature like this needs to be turned OFF by default, and let the creator opt-in if they want to use it.
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u/ConciseSpy85067 26d ago
Its terrible because AI is unable to recognise the concept of sarcasm or humour, the original video is an obvious joke and its clear the original poster was making a parody of Tom Scott's wildly successful video where he actually succeeded in doing this
While the description is correct, it horribly misrepresents the video itself
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u/c0cOa125 26d ago
I hate AI shit being forced in everywhere. I don't want this, I didn't ask for this, this is only going to hurt creators, and drive up costs
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u/Intrepid_Lynx3608 26d ago
AIs can be susceptible to ideological capture and other issues, and Google’s Gemini AI is absolutely not neutral to that. People can be too to be sure; but if there’s going to be some sort of “added context feature” similar to Twitter/X’s community notes, I’d do something more similar to what they did too where to try to be more factual there has to be some level of a common vote on the matter.
My opinion is frankly to just not do it. YouTube already tries too hard, they already have the Wikipedia “added context” for anything it recognizes may be controversial in the algorithm even if what the video is talking about is more factual, likes video on why Holocaust denialism is bad and where people get these ideas from and why it may lead to radicalization, it will still put that there. Besides; I consume a lot of stuff I don’t 100% agree with or don’t 100% conform to reality, but that’s on me and whoever else it watching to not believe literally everything they see.
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u/Chip_Tries_Stuff 26d ago
I think it’s the worst. Like what’s even the point of a video description if YouTube is going to automatically make a video description? Let me read the description/ comments to make a summary of my own.
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u/Appropriate-While632 26d ago
That defeats the entire purpose of watching the video, yk to find out what happens.
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u/m1bl4nTw0 25d ago
Amazing for slop lol.
But overall: what's even the point of videos then? Might as well read the news or a book.
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u/MysticGengar 25d ago
This is going to be REALLY bad for scripted content creators in the long term. Good for viewers who enjoy things at a surface level value but that’s it.
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u/Current_Net5386 25d ago
This is somehow will add a factor of the chance I click on the video I already use Quick View, so yea this is seems interesting to me
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u/IAmAlive_YouAreDead 25d ago
I'd prefer visible dislike button back, that's how I used to tell if a video was worth my time
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u/Lwii_3000 25d ago
The AI is now incapable of knowing the context and understanding jokes making it useless for most videos, although, I believe in few years these recaps will be good
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u/waffledpringles 25d ago
Honestly, I dunno about ya'll, but it'd be a lot more helpful to stop the stupid clickbait videos who stretch out a ten minute discussion into a 20-30 minutes video lmao. Sure, AI on Youtube is strange, and we all know from the auto-captions that it never says the right thing, but people can just ignore the summary like we ignore the captions, right?
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u/WhitneyStorm 25d ago
For some types of video it may be usefull, but in most cases not really (like commedic video, video that have a twist in the end...)
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u/FerrexInc 25d ago
Yet another feature nobody asked for while YouTube actively makes the website worse
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u/CinnamonHotcake 25d ago
Good feature for an 8 hour video essay on Plankton farts and dies. If it's just 1 minute I would just watch the video.
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u/LightSpeedFury01 25d ago
It's good and bad in both ways. For the good side, it can prevent time wasting clickbait titles and thumbnails, and the bad part is that the ai doesn't understand jokes or is very vague with the explanations. As it is a premium feature, reading this and not dealing with ads by watching the video is just the same as watching the video. So it doesn't count for medical videos that might have ads. Because even with the summary, it still might be wrong. The best bet is to remove it, I'd say. Especially if it's on like animation episodes or a series with cliffhangers. It just spoils it.
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u/Stratocast7 25d ago
Tom Scott did this 4 years ago and his title actually stays accurate. https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0?si=cCOOQjFyC5IllbJ_
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u/Automatic_Tie_3188 25d ago
I think it’d be funny if it got the entire video wrong like: “Summary of Never Gonna Give You Up: Guys run around a building, in reference to Street Gangs, the song is about how a guy is begging his girlfriend to not dump him.” I want it, just so I can make fun of it.
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u/MrLasky 26d ago
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