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Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by zimpenfish »

theshrike79 wrote: post #20
KennyBlanken wrote: post #15

They pour money into engineering and hardware resources into stuff like this but still claim that DMCA abuse (by media companies, blackmailers, griefers, and reputation management activity) is an unsolvable problem? Yet...they can't hire more staff, implement databases to track malicious/unreliable DMCA submitters, and falsely-targeted creators for whom complaints are likely BS, and implement AI-powered tools to assi…

There is no incentive for them. Example: Over here there is a huge problem with rented e-scooters being left wherever. Every scooter company asks you to take a photo of the parking. NOBODY ever checks those. I did a quick test with GPT-4 and it could tell me if a scooter was parked in a considerate way about 90% of the time (10 photos, some with multiple scooters). Could they implement this in an afternoon? Yes. Will…

> Every scooter company asks you to take a photo of the parking. NOBODY ever checks those.

Only a semi-scooter company but Lime, at least in London, do sometimes check the photos because I once got dinged for "incorrect parking" (wrongly, mind, it was parked identically to the Santander bikes a few metres away and thus incapable of inconveniencing anyone.)

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by johnfn »

slg wrote: post #18

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…

> 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..?

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by stnmtn »

superjan wrote: post #35

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.

One of the metrics I'm sure they want to avoid is a user clicking away. If they inserted ads only when a speaker has finished a thought, it would probably result in more click aways than ads where a user wants to hear how a sentence/thought ends.

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by stnmtn »

kklisura wrote: post #23

All that AI CapEx: for a button to glow! WOW. ROI will be off the charts!

I think this is more like a developer was bored one afternoon and implemented this for fun, and then everyone else thought it was fun enough to put into the main codebase.

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by slg »

johnfn wrote: post #52
slg wrote: post #18

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…

> 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 can read it well enough for a French speaker to understand it. That doesn't mean that I myself understand what I read. Transcripts are the former and this feature is the latter.

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by conductr »

cheeseomlit wrote: post #28
gruez wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 teach Google about me based on the videos I watch. How else do you think the "up next" and "re…

You don't necessarily need to analyze every word in every video for recommendations- it could be as simple as 'users who liked this video also liked these other videos'

You can also turn on subtitles and even have them translated, it's pretty obvious Google is doing a lot with the audio part of videos

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by 8note »

slg wrote: post #39
gruez wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 teach Google about me based on the videos I watch. How else do you think the "up next" and "re…

>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.

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by conductr »

mathverse wrote: post #38
gruez wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 teach Google about me based on the videos I watch. How else do you think the "up next" and "re…

If u are from a small country and you travel a lot it absolutely throws google off. I never get any relevant ads or videos for me :(.

I mostly use Youtube to watch home improvement / DIY / construction related stuff. They show me ads in Spanish. I'm probably the most stereotypical American white dude in Finance that speaks only English. What's weird is I've been using Google Search/Gmail basically since they became available and have bought their products and services for other stuff over the years and they have me pretty dialed in on their marketing elsewhere. YT specifically thinks otherwise.

Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]

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Post by 8note »

slg wrote: post #56
johnfn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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 instead say, leaving an empty space where they would usually say such a thing.

If I pointed you at some french text and asked you to point at the term "le Chateau" you'd be able to do that without understanding french.

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