Those who use ChatGPT and YouTube will no doubt be aware of the possibility of downloading aChrome extension that allows you to summarize videos in a few lines. Well, according to what revealed da Android Police YouTube is pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence to automatically generate video summaries. This innovation, according to how much reported on a support page dated July 31, could revolutionize the way we interact with video content.
YouTube uses AI to summarize videos: here is the new experiment that does not include third-party apps or extensions
These summaries, for now, will only appear next to a limited number of videos in English and will only be visible to a limited number of users. They will be featured on YouTube's watch and search pages, intended to provide a brief overview of a video's content without replacing the description existing written by a human.
"We're starting to test auto-generated AI excerpts on YouTube to make it easier for you to read a short excerpt of a video and decide if it's right for you“, reads the support page. This experiment is just one of many generative AI projects currently underway at Google, which is trying to find new uses for this emerging technology. In fact, let us remember that also the Google Assistant will get an upgrade thanks to AI.
Whether these summaries gain wider circulation, it will be interesting to see if will affect how YouTube creators structure their videos. Every policy change and every new feature the video platform introduces can have far-reaching effects on its content ecosystem, since i creators they try to please its recommendation algorithm, omniscient but obscure. Who knows what will happen when creators have to make videos that are understandable for both humans and Google's AI.
