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Google has been building Gemini into YouTube and I've been seeing things like this pop up in the normal YouTube UI (as a Premium subscriber). A few times now I
by al_borland 1y ago
Google has been building Gemini into YouTube and I've been seeing things like this pop up in the normal YouTube UI (as a Premium subscriber). A few times now I will see a video that looks interesting, but it 20 minutes long. Under it is an AI summary that answers the question the title poses and saves me 20 minutes. For videos that don't have the automatic AI summary, there is an option in (some) videos to bring up an AI chat which can summarize a video or answer specific question about it.
The results are hit and miss right now. I have the feeling that it gets the video context based on the video description and comments, not the video itself.
I toyed around with something for my own use, where I downloaded the subtitles of a video, put the subtitles together into something semi-readable, then ran that through AI to create a properly readable version of the video. This all worked pretty well. That article could then be summarized if wanted. It was a one-time proof of concept. I may make it into an Apple Shortcut once they release macOS 26 and their AI writing tools are in the Shortcuts app. I mostly did this because it was something my dad said he wanted and I wanted to show him he could do it today if he really wanted. It didn't take that long to throw together.