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More serious comment.
It seems like there is less space (in our mind, and time) for yet another app. If you have this, vs youtube for course, people will still flock to youtube. Why don't you add the value that you are giving here by directly integrating or enhancing youtube. A chrome plugin or a youtube browser?
I really like the motivation behind this product. Learning is hard.
And no, I don't consider "they get extra views" a valid answer. Especially if you expect to make the windfall you want to make off their labor.
You're compensating the youtube video creators for this, how? Are you asking their permission? Or is this similar to how all the AI scammers operate and just extracting value from other peoples work without compensation? Just curious if this will help the people who are actually doing the source work or if it's just another way to take other people's labor and make money off it without anything in return for them. An…
Not a bad concept. I already do something similar I already use LLMs to quiz me on books that I'm reading. The current book I've been studying is "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (8th edition)." Obviously since it is a text book, there are homework problems and other discussion points. However; it's also fun to ask grok/chatGPT to quiz me on previous chapters and correct my answers. There's plenty of confere…
You're compensating the youtube video creators for this, how? Are you asking their permission? Or is this similar to how all the AI scammers operate and just extracting value from other peoples work without compensation? Just curious if this will help the people who are actually doing the source work or if it's just another way to take other people's labor and make money off it without anything in return for them. An…
We do a revenue share with the creators for any content we monetize. And if they don't want their content on our platform, we will take it down.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s an 8 minute video…and even shorter at 1.5X that will take me longer to summarize than you to watch. But in summary, YouTube is rolling out AI summarization features on some content without giving creators any say in the matter. Concerns include: - Low quality summarization of high quality content will devalue the content, and in many cases is just a worse version of the content - Impact to watch time on the chan…
Thanks, I appreciate that! FWIW, unfortunately, I think the problem is a two-headed one, and maybe reversed for viewers vs creators. Creators want as many people to see their work as possible. But viewers have to sift through a graveyard of 95%+ junk videos to find the 5% worth watching. AI (or Google/TikTok/etc. in general) acting as gatekeeper in between isn't great, but not having any metrics/summaries/description…
This is totally fair. I watch quite a bit of his educational content on cameras so I already trusted him enough to watch past the preamble. When this thread came up it was the first video that came to mind since I’d recently watched it. I can totally see how it’d be a bit less effective for someone not already familiar with his stuff.
I also agree with the general theme of your last paragraph. For the most part, I’ll avoid channels that are primarily fluff, or skip through the preamble if it’s a creator that I begrudgingly follow because they make good - if unnecessarily fluffy at times - content.
Also not sure what the long term solution is. I do tend to believe Google’s approach with this YouTube feature isn’t it.
Recently I've gotten a lot of benefit from much of Alex Hormozi's thoughts. Yesterday I grabbed a 4-hour video, ran it through a free transcript generator, dropped it in Claude, and asked for an outline.
Unsurprisingly, Claude struggled to provide a complete outline. Like, it did a lot! but kept leaving parts out. I was able to prompt Claude to fill in more, good enough for me.
Anyway I dropped it into Miyagi Labs, waited 30 minutes while it said the course was creating. I kept it open in a tab and kept an eye on it. Eventually I tried to open a new tab into Miyagi (maybe I'd see it under My Courses?) but I was no longer logged in, and can't log in.
Also only the top right login button gives the option to use non-gmail.
Sorry if I broke something! I love the idea!
I am very interested in this, and I have personally built manual workflows to do Youtube video -> rip audio->transcript->llm context. For example, taking a video about building garden retaining walls and generating detailed system prompts for Q&A with the expert in the video. I reference ~home improvement or tool videos and often comments contain points of wisdom or even corrections of mistakes (errata) on videos tha…
To your last question, what do you mean by arbitrary? If the video is not educational at all, then the generated course will likely not be good. If the video is pure entertainment then probably not a good use case.
If I have personally qualified a person as an expert on building retaining walls for landscaping and want to have your platform process a particular video, would you allow this?
I'm not necessarily interested in the topics you're providing resources around. I want niche topics. Like roofing or how to properly set up a traditional hand planer.
I am interested in individual, often amateur contributors of niche knowledge on youtube, not channels designed to educate in the first place.
I am very interested in this, and I have personally built manual workflows to do Youtube video -> rip audio->transcript->llm context. For example, taking a video about building garden retaining walls and generating detailed system prompts for Q&A with the expert in the video. I reference ~home improvement or tool videos and often comments contain points of wisdom or even corrections of mistakes (errata) on videos tha…
For now we only use the YouTube transcript because for most educational content we've found it does about as well for lower cost. We may make that an option though, since we also offer other resource types (pdf, slides, docs) -> course.
This maybe doesn't matter as much in the content you're processing now, but see my reply to sibling comment here, where it matters a lot for these niche videos where the creator did not mention or did not know about some important detail of a process or task.