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I know this is just a fun little easter egg, but features like this seems a little risky to me. It calls attention to the fact that Youtube isn't just serving me videos neutrally, it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. It highlights how much Google analyses the content of its videos in a way that more neutral features like automatic transcripts don't and in turn how much that can…
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> it knows what is being said in those videos at the exact moment it is said. How did you think they did automated closed captioning..?
I don't know why you quoted this snippet to ask this question when I addressed it literally in the next sentence of my original comment, but I guess I need to reiterate it. Automatic transcripts/ closed captioning suggest Google heard what was said. This feature suggests Google understands what was said. Think of it like reading a foreign language that uses the same alphabet. You can give me some French text and I ca…
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I don't know why you quoted this snippet to ask this question when I addressed it literally in the next sentence of my original comment, but I guess I need to reiterate it. Automatic transcripts/ closed captioning suggest Google heard what was said. This feature suggests Google understands what was said. Think of it like reading a foreign language that uses the same alphabet. You can give me some French text and I ca…
Does this feature suggest they understand what was said? I'd expect the button to light up at random times in a video about "smash the like button" causing the button to light up, rather than in the end call to action for the video where the video author actually wants the watcher to click the button. Similarly, I doubt it can properly understand when the video presenter implies the term "smash the like button" while…
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>How else do you think the "up next" and "recommended videos for you" feature works? Did you think they were serving up relevant videos purely out of chance? It is absolutely possible to serve recommendations in a content agnostic way based on other user behavior. That is how the Youtube's recommendations worked at least initially. It should be obvious that they didn't have this ability to analyze content when Youtub…
around 20 years ago mark all kinds of things would happen at different times of a video, with the tool tips, and end cards and what have you. CSS animations werent there I guess, but given a manual transcription, either by the submitter, or by a person watching, youtube definitely had the capability to do exactly this, maybe with the button being some flash animation.
I mean the "given a manual transcription" condition means the very much didn't have "the capability to do exactly this". The animation itself isn't the interesting part here.
I have recently been wondering how it is possible that they can make features like that, and provide closed captions, but that they continue to insert ads halfway a speaker’s sentence.
The best calls to action inside a video take advantage of the Zeigarnik effect : once they're invested in the content, people really want to find out the
I have never once hit that bell
You've never found a single content creator that put out stuff you liked so much you wanted to see everything they did? Not a single one? Do you prefer TV instead?
I'm sure thay's not ideal (e.g. not for Google trying to understand you better) for the addicts, but for the other ones, this can be the perfect solution.
I wish they used something more than that stupid minimalist icon theme. I have again and again smashed the button only to unlike a video
I don't understand how... You always have two thumbs there which means you can contrast the state of being just an outline with the state of being filled in.
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Up Next and recommended videos don't require understanding the content of the videos. They could, as an example, find other users that watch similar videos and pick a video you haven't seen out of the things the other users have watched. It wouldn't surprise me if they use transcripts, but neither feature strictly requires it. I think the real risk here is users extrapolating from "YouTube can automatically respond t…
It speaks to the fact that things that are most beneficial to Google have been finetuned to exploit eyeballs and pocketbooks. If they wanted to, or if their hand was forced, they’d be able to do the things that benefit the greater good. Don’t get started with the “it’s a slippery slope” kind of shit. Short of living in some society where it’s every man for himself, kids shouldn’t be playing lotteries
So, at first I thought that Google is parsing the text of the video being played, but is not listening to your mic.
However, several comments both here and on YT imply that Google is ALSO listening to what you say on your mic. Which, frankly, is much more scary - though I cannot currently test.
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That would be fun to exploit. Just get a few hundred accounts, have them watch a Mr. Beast video followed by a video you want to boost, and watch the numbers grow
Not sure even a few thousand accounts would make a dent in a Mr beast video count. Recommendation would go toward the 1 million accounts who watch another Mr beast video after.