You Tube "Gurus" Etc --- Time Saver
Just a tip for anyone not aware of this, but first a couple disclaimers:
1. This is in a test/phased roll out stage---not every You Tube video will have this available. Also, it might only be available if you are using Chrome, I'm not sure.
2. As with anything AI related, errors can happen. Keep that in mind.
3. Video shown here chosen randomly.
That said, if you watch You Tube videos with ebay gurus (I know some here avoid them, and that's fine....I'm not trying to convince you to watch them) , here's a tip that could save you some time:
Many You Tube videos now have the little icon shown below and circled in red, the Gemini AI Ask icon:
If you click this, a panel will open to the right of the video , as seen below:
Here you can ask AI questions about the contents of the video. If you click "Summarize the video" it will do just that (and will include the minute mark where the topic is found). You can also ask specific questions about the video (and can continue asking more questions), just like with tools such as ChatGPT. Here is what a typical Summary looks like (there is a scroll bar to keep reading it, this is just the beginning of the summary):
By using this, you can decide whether you want to watch the full video (or maybe just certain sections). And, again, if the summary doesn't sound correct about something, you can always watch the video to check, because the summary can be wrong.
As for me, I can skim one of these summaries pretty quickly, much more quickly than watching the video...Now, in some cases, the summary may whet your appetite for the whole video, in other cases it might convince you to simply move on. Either way, I hope this is helpful information. This has been around for a while, but it does seem like YT is adding it to more and more videos pretty quickly...
chapeau-noir
·6 months agoThanks for that - 99% of videos just discussing something are such a waste of time - I can read the transcript at least twice as fast as it takes the "expert seller" or whatever to drone through it, particularly as they tend to pad the material.
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
OP6 months ago@chapeau-noir Probably wishful thinking on my part, but I'm hoping as more people begin to use the summaries, maybe some of the gurus will see their monetization drop off. A lot of the click bait titles and the "drama" (various inter-guru "feuds" and departure proclamations, etc) are just there to get more clicks . And I believe the amount of time a watcher stays on the video the better the monetization. So, dragging out what could be a short and to the point useful video has become endemic on You Tube...maybe at least some of the You Tubers will realize that with this change, they might be better off creating short, to the point, well organized and useful videos.
Of course, many viewers want to be "entertained" more than they want to learn, so things may stay pretty much the same...
redlinear
·6 months agoMy take on "most" of these video's? (and the OP touched on this).
I'm just not going to watch a 30 minute video of an eBay seller walking around, pulling items to ship, and telling about each item.....before they get to whatever point they are trying to make.
"Most" are 30 minutes of what should be Five
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
OP6 months ago@redlinear Which is pretty much why I posted this. Many of these videos are rather long and not necessarily well structured. Many also have "click bait" type titles. But a decent summary allows you to judge whether this particular video might be worth watching. And, because the summary includes time stamps, you can decide, OK, I don't care about any of that until Minute 24:30, when he starts talking about (whatever).
@ten_o_nine "guru" is just a common , if rather imprecise, term for these types of videos.
@gone.c-33 I've been randomly checking the summaries, and so far, have found them to be pretty accurate. But, yes, this is AI, and it does make mistakes. But I think for the overall summary, they are pretty good. A detail here or there might be wrong. (Of course, sometimes it isn't that AI has provided a wrong summary, sometimes it is that the guru has provided wrong information)
@adamcartwright Yes, "Hubcap Joe", is a bit of a character. He's been a speaker at some ebay events as I recall. But, as I say, I just chose a video at random, I could have picked any of a huge number of resellers for this...just happened to land on Joe.
One thing I've noticed, if a video is titled something like "20 Must Have Brands" the guru rarely includes the names of the brands in his own summary...but here, if you want to know the 20 brands, the summary will spit them out for you in a matter of seconds. Or a video titled "Five Tips to Grow Your Sales"? Again, the summary will show you the five tips, and you can decide if you need more info.
Of course, for those who simply don't like these videos, just ignore the videos and the summaries. And of course, if you like a particular guru (or guru group) because they are entertaining to watch, then watch them, because the summary isn't likely to be as entertaining.
adamcartwright
·6 months ago@my-cottage-books-and-antiques
I start watching this stuff and after a few minutes in I couldn't care less, I just want to move on with my life. That AI summary sounds perfect for someone like me.
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
OP6 months ago@adamcartwright Glad this tip will be useful for someone!
ten_o_nine
·6 months agoIf he’s a guru, then I’m a legend.😀
gone.c-33
·6 months agoConsidering how often their voice recognition software messes up, I would take any of those summaries with a whole shaker of salt.
adamcartwright
·6 months agoI've seen this guy before, seems like a character.
Thanks for this info.