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> Video is linear and demands a fixed time commitment I recently saw that YouTube allows you to “chat” with videos through AI and can surface random content fr
by saimiam 9mo ago
> Video is linear and demands a fixed time commitment
I recently saw that YouTube allows you to “chat” with videos through AI and can surface random content from the middle of the video if you ask it to.
- abustamam 9mo agoThat's neat, but now it's almost as if YouTube is encouraging people not to watch videos, but to just make AI give you the cliff notes.
- satvikpendem 9mo agoI absolutely use it for this because lots of videos drone on and pad their length for the ad revenue, so I ask the AI to summarize and then I can click through exactly what I want to see. I found myself actually watching more videos now, not less, because I know I don't have to listen to them for 10 minutes and waste my time when they don't get to the point.
- abustamam 9mo agoOh I agree, I use it for the same reason. It just seems counterintuitive to YouTubes bottom line (ie discouraging folks like us from watching to video to give them ad money)