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.
Maybe it's meant to be annoying so you get Premium
The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
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Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#82I 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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Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 it understand it or does it have a regex for "smash that subscribe button"?
do you really think that Googs has implemented a regex for this little easter egg without parsing the rest of the content in a much more meaningful manner as the original comment is suggesting? i'm in agreement that the levels of what these platforms can infer about the content you consume is beyond creepy.
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#84This has been happening for at least a year, probably more. I always assumed it was something the creator had to manually mark, never considered that it might be automatic.
My TV's YT app is useless and buggy. It doesn't have automatically generated & automatically translated subtitles. The YT app on my mi-box does. So it wouldn't be impossible to have the VTT prescan the audio and "if VTT has the phrase so-and-so then display animation lalala.gif" (I use the VTT on my Firefox, I use IDM to download the auto-generated English language scripts for lengthy videos). I remember listening to…
why would these auto generated subs be the apps purview? wouldn't it be YT platform doing all of this work and providing a CC button if the data is available. i can't imagine this being done in real time and not just some post process that is run against new content at time up upload processing.
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#85I 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.
As someone who runs a startup in the video market (and most of our users use our software for marketing purposes), I think it's pretty likely they might actually use the transcript... to insert ads halfway the speaker's sentence on purpose. 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
Any company that takes financial advantage of that should just fu
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#86My computer does not have a speaker (none built in, and none attached). I watched the clip a few times. Each time, as the button glowed in his video, the button also glowed below the video in the youtube UI. 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 sa…
Are you saying they are recording what viewers are saying? That would be an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary proof.
Other than that, why wouldn’t they know what’s being said in a video they host?
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically you seem to be focusing too much on the exact words and phrases I used rather than the deeper meaning. So let's just get completely away from words like "knows" and "understanding" which seem to be tripping multiple people up. > It's just a substring match. Let's just say this is true. That is a super simply process, but what would it look like? Step 1: Transcribe the audio into text Step 2: Run substring…
> I think you would have to be naive to think the capability to do this type of analysis on the transcribed text was designed for only this feature and would never be used for anything else. Why would you have to be naive to believe this? The subtitles, with timings, are available on the client-side already. You seem to allude that doing this work would require some sort of deep analysis work. I think it's really mor…
It isn’t about this requiring “deep analysis work”. It is the difference between some analysis and no analysis. That increase from 0 to 1 is always the biggest hurdle to clear when it comes to any corporate behavior like this.
This feature is like walking into your kitchen one day to find a dead cockroach. I’m saying that is an indication of a cockroach problem while you’re effectively responding with “it’s fine, the one cockroach is dead and there is no reason to believe there are any others.”
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#88I 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.
It happens to me all the time. I can’t explain it either, but my hypothesis is me interpreting the highlighted “like” button as the encouraged action out of the two?
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reason I didn't respond to the rest of your post is because I can't understand its relationship to your argument. There is no need for deeper understanding here. It's just a substring match.
Ironically you seem to be focusing too much on the exact words and phrases I used rather than the deeper meaning. So let's just get completely away from words like "knows" and "understanding" which seem to be tripping multiple people up. > It's just a substring match. Let's just say this is true. That is a super simply process, but what would it look like? Step 1: Transcribe the audio into text Step 2: Run substring…
You've overlooked that automatic transcription also includes the filtering of certain words based on match lists as well.
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#90I 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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This is why I keep a buffer if 20k emails of junk. Goodluck finding out anything, I can't.