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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by est »

bagacrap wrote: post #451
est wrote: post #432

google might have a chance to win the LLM battle, to train multi-modal LLM based on youtube videos, which is a huge advantage over Microsoft. OpenAI's Codex model got the reasoning ability through github. LLM could learn so much more with real-life videos in an embodied way.

That would require better speech recognition. Judging by automated subtitles, it's not there yet. And I don't think YouTube videos tend to have better veracity than the web at large. Maybe YouTube videos can be used to train models on how to verbally present information in a compelling way, but I don't see how it would make an AI better at generating written text.

> That would require better speech recognition

No, I mean ML can recognize real-world objects like human eyes do. They have a raw, direct understanding of the visual "world", an alternative to parse the world facts only by texts.

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Post by nxten »

labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

comment sections are filled with spam. amzcoin & ccp bots to be more specific

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Post by wraptile »

labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

> YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it.

I wonder if there some empirical evidence to support this because I'd argue it's much worse now. It went from "first" sort of harmless meme spam to real problems like encouraging conspiracy theories and criminal activities and toxic hate etc. Isn't that were most conspiracies like flat earth and covid crazies start?

Not to mention the absurd amount of spam. Leave a comment on any tech video and you'll very soon find out "you won an iPhone!" sent by someone with the exact same image/name as the channel of the video.

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Post by baby »

joegahona wrote: post #56

I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.

The price just increased, and it was already insane compared to any streaming services (e.g. Netflix)

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Post by chrismorgan »

aeyes wrote: post #164
labrador wrote: post #147

YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…

Nowadays the comment section on several channels I watch is full of spam, oftentimes 50+ fake accounts responding to each other in threads.

And last time I looked (few months ago? and it had been so previous times I looked for at least the year before that) it was mostly trivially obvious spam, following simple patterns that will yield no false positives. This tells me that they don’t care at all: either they’re not doing any actual blacklist filtering based on content patterns (that is, unconditional removal or rejection, rather than merely flagging as probable spam for the channel owner to take action on), or their filters are unmaintained.

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Post by _ugfj »

jossclimb wrote: post #103
mkaic wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I am a massive fan of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. While I am a bit nervous because major change like this could lead to those products getting worse, I'm also hopeful that it could lead to them getting better! So in general I'm just eager to see what happens next, come what may.

can you sell it to a current spotify user?

I guess most people forgot fast that Spotify platformed a major antivaxxer? I cancelled them immediately and can't even imagine subscribing to them any time. It was just a year ago...

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Post by dzhiurgis »

93po wrote: post #422
joegahona wrote: post #56

I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.

Worth noting you can VPN to other countries and get super cheap rates ($2 month). You don't have to stay on the VPN to retain the rate.

Do you need payment from there or can use any card?

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Post by Psychoshy_bc1q »

_ugfj wrote: post #497
jossclimb wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you sell it to a current spotify user?

I guess most people forgot fast that Spotify platformed a major antivaxxer? I cancelled them immediately and can't even imagine subscribing to them any time. It was just a year ago...

lmao

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Post by concerned_user »

addaon wrote: post #486
VikingCoder wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you appear to dismiss my concerns completely, demand a feature, and then insist... that hardly anyone will use it? And that because hardly anyone will use it, that means promoters are safe... unless they're not, in which case, they had it coming? A sponsor pays $10,000 to a content creator. And then, they get zero views of their embedded ad in the video. They got literally nothing for their $10,000 investment. An…

Sponsors don't pay a fixed amount to creators. They pay for (estimated) views. What I'm proposing is exactly, 100% symmetric to how advertisers who pay Google for YouTube ad placement are already treated -- they pay for views, and YouTube can and does choose to not show those ads to some users, those who pay for Premium. Is that unfair for the ad buyers? Sure, if you squint right… but they're not being deprived somet…

> Sponsors don't pay a fixed amount to creators. They pay for (estimated) views.

This can't be right, I've seen many videos from creators that say the opposite, it is a fixed amount per contract which can be one or more videos. Maybe it is different with creators that have more than 1M subscribers.

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