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Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 months ago by fpslem to c/technology
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Yes. The answer is Yes. And Hank Green brings receipts.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s called sponsorblock, and there is no machine learning involved whatsoever. The data is crowdsourced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That data is also publicly available (of course), so a model could be trained on it. I'd love to say I'd doubt Google/YouTube would ever do that, but at this point nothing would surprise me.

[–] vxx 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you move the slider on a video you'll see which parts were watched most. The big peaks usually indicate people skipping sponsored segments.

You don't need AI for it.

[–] paraphrand 3 points 2 months ago

More data is always better. Especially data curated by humans. Have you not been paying attention? 😉