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Does it understand it or does it have a regex for "smash that subscribe button"?

by pb7 2y ago

dylan604 2y ago
do you really think that Googs has implemented a regex for this little easter egg without parsing the rest of the content in a much more meaningful manner as the original comment is suggesting? i'm in agreement that the levels of what these platforms can infer about the content you consume is beyond creepy.
- root_axis 2y ago
  Yes, because a regex match is cheap, easy and predictable. I don't see a reason why it needs to be any more complicated than that.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    but that's not how Googs makes money
    - root_axis 2y ago
      What does that have to do with anything? The text transcript for the video already exists on the client, implementing this behavior is trivial with that in mind. Whatever creepy analysis YouTube is doing (which I don't doubt they are), this feature isn't evidence of it.
      - dylan604 2y ago
        you honestly think that Googs spend the time and money to develop automatic transcription/translation for anything other than figuring out ad sales to videos? anything else they've done with it is just bonus features from the work on how to direct ads. how is that difficult to grok?
hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
It doesn't work, at least not on my channel or on an unlisted video. I tried "Press the 'Subscribe' button", "Smash the 'Subscribe' button", and "Smash the 'Like' button."
- skeaker 2y ago
  It isn't rolled out to every channel yet. Back when the chapters feature was added to Youtube not every video would have it even if they had the correct syntax in their description. I happened to upload a video around that time and happened to put that syntax in my description and got it to work despite having a channel with almost 0 subscribers, making me think feature rollouts like these are essentially just random. Anecdotally, I suspect videos with these new features are also given an algorithm boost: My video where I had this feature randomly trigger early got over a million views despite that not being my intent and despite my channel being otherwise near non-existent in terms of activity.

Does it understand it or does it have a regex for "smash that subscribe button"?

by pb7 2y ago

Does it understand it or does it have a regex for "smash that subscribe button"?

do you really think that Googs has implemented a regex for this little easter egg without parsing the rest of the content in a much more meaningful manner as the original comment is suggesting? i'm in agreement that the levels of what these platforms can infer about the content you consume is beyond creepy.

root_axis 2y ago
Yes, because a regex match is cheap, easy and predictable. I don't see a reason why it needs to be any more complicated than that.
- dylan604 2y ago
  but that's not how Googs makes money
  - root_axis 2y ago
    What does that have to do with anything? The text transcript for the video already exists on the client, implementing this behavior is trivial with that in mind. Whatever creepy analysis YouTube is doing (which I don't doubt they are), this feature isn't evidence of it.
    - dylan604 2y ago
      you honestly think that Googs spend the time and money to develop automatic transcription/translation for anything other than figuring out ad sales to videos? anything else they've done with it is just bonus features from the work on how to direct ads. how is that difficult to grok?

hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago

It doesn't work, at least not on my channel or on an unlisted video. I tried "Press the 'Subscribe' button", "Smash the 'Subscribe' button", and "Smash the 'Like' button."

skeaker 2y ago
It isn't rolled out to every channel yet. Back when the chapters feature was added to Youtube not every video would have it even if they had the correct syntax in their description. I happened to upload a video around that time and happened to put that syntax in my description and got it to work despite having a channel with almost 0 subscribers, making me think feature rollouts like these are essentially just random. Anecdotally, I suspect videos with these new features are also given an algorithm boost: My video where I had this feature randomly trigger early got over a million views despite that not being my intent and despite my channel being otherwise near non-existent in terms of activity.