As a other premium user, trust me that is not the main reason I use it, it’s entirely to get rid of ads on mobile. I use the feature occasionally on mobile too but on desktop I use sponsorblock and it’s wayyy better both from an accuracy and user interface standpoint.
Sidenote: I also am on a plan that my parents pay for, though I used to pay for it myself after getting it for free for 6 months and I couldn’t go back to the ads
Retiring@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s called sponsorblock, and there is no machine learning involved whatsoever. The data is crowdsourced.
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
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@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you move the slider on a video you’ll see which parts were watched most. The big peaks usually insocate people skipping sponsored segments.
You don’t need AI for it.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More data is always better. Especially data curated by humans. Have you not been paying attention? 😉