Yes. The answer is Yes. And Hank Green brings receipts.

  • Retiring@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

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

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      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.

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        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.

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