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TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
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Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#192How is this different from using Gemini to summarize a video given a YouTube URL?
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not that, it's "too long with low information density so ingest it more efficiently." That way we can spend our time on things that are more productive or enjoyable.
Videos are typically already summarized substitutes for complex topics--topics for which you might need to read text or literature to get the full context of. Now we want to min-max and summarize the video themselves. Then what? If that video summary is too long, we throw it into another LLM to summarize the summary of the summary? To what extent does this end? There's more to learning than just information density.…
Lots of youtube videos are not the well-organized presentations you describe, but instead have a minute or two of good information with ten minutes of meandering asides, background you already know, and other fluff. Some are well-disguised clickbait. A good summary prevents a lot of time wasting.
As for the good videos, I can't watch them all. If I can skim a good summary, I can decide whether, for me, this video is worth watching, or ignoring, or just reading the summary more carefully.
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#194Bit of a waste to host this locally and still need an openai api key. This would be great with Ollama
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#195I see the value in this, and thank you for posting it.
That said, it really makes me wonder at how insanely inefficient information transfer over the internet can become. This is like... doing OCR on screenshots of PDFs to send messages, rather than just passing around text. Nice, searchable, parseable, indexible, extremely compressible, editable, readily versionable text.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ya we are sick and addicted. Not only do I need the above 4, I need a separate browser because YouTube breaks with Firefox, private tabs to not taint my preferences when I watch one-ofs, and other addons such as a channel and video blocker.
Interesting, I'm using Firefox, what breaks with YouTube for you? I also like PocketTube for subscription management as I find that much better than trying to trawl through the mountains of BS on the homepage.
It’s two things on YouTube. Certain videos (seems to not occur for super popular videos) dont load. Just a white browser screen and black area for the video, but no video, suggested videos, or text at all. The second is searching. Certain terms that seem unremarkable and unrelated will leave out the channels I’m after. Eg. “Cop body cam videos” will only suggest videos from 1-3 channels, or “Hardcore WoW clips” won’t include the channel I’m after (the most obvious and largest for this search). Using Brave or Chrome produces the expected/desired behavior (but isn’t fixed with some other browsers or local YouTube clients).
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#197Tried Andrej Karpathy's latest video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI It said "too long video" Exactly, duh ;D
I saw that too. I'm able to use Eightify for longer videos https://eightify.app/
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#198What I'd really like is a service that edits down YouTube videos by removing all the stock footage and talking head crap, then speeding up the audio to fit over the remaining novel information—whether that's new battlefield footage, electron micrographs, demonstrations of machining techniques, or just elephant toothpaste. The talking head filler seems like it would be easy to recognize, but stock footage recognition…
If that's what you want then why would you want a service like this? Surely there would be a non-video news sources of electron micrographs or elephant toothpaste for which there would probably be hundreds or thousands of LLM TL;DR things.
I think you don't have a very clear idea of what I am talking about. You cannot present electron micrographs as text. You can present individual electron micrographs as still images, but not animation. Similarly, video of elephant toothpaste can only be presented as video, even if still images can be arresting. There is no sense in which a textual description of machining techniques or a Ukrainian battlefield is a substitute for video footage of them. In 5 seconds they can convey information that no amount of linguistic description can. Sometimes that information is even true.
What I hate is when I'm trying to find such irreplaceable information and instead my search results are full of vapid stock footage and hubristic talking heads overconfidently reading a script out loud as they gaze at a video camera. It's like AI slop without the creativity.
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#199Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared. Cool that implementation is open-source, though yt automatic captions are sometimes completely off-point, especially when people talking in the video don't have a diction of a tv show host. I wonder if an idea found it's niche after all? Do you guys summarise you videos to short texts and that leaves you satisfied? For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. Wi…
If I want to watch a video for the sake of watching a video, then no, a text summary would not at all be the same thing. But most of the time I don't want to watch a video, I just want to get information. A text summary then would be strictly superior.
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