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Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube.

I like the concept and I have it installed, but I don’t contribute to it because I find it challenging to think of better titles. It’s not easy like with Sponsorblock that I regularly submit to. For example, sometimes I need to watch most of the video first to be accurate, and by then I’ve already moved on to the next video. Other times it’s simply hard for me to condense the content of the video accurately into so many characters when the original title is way off.

I do like the way it makes all the titles lowercase, though. I find that changes the tone of the video feed quite a bit.

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jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This might actually be one of the few things AI could be used for. ChatGPT could download the transcript and just build a short summary.

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- wildn0x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  YouTube has already been helpful to a degree. Sometimes I’ll open their AI summarize and it will give all the details along with timestamps. There are videos where I saw the summary and passed on watching because the video was mostly filler material.
  
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- Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah, I think there was something like that floating around. I imagine it’s costly, though, but it’d be nice to have.
  
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- yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  ChatGPT could download the transcript and just build a short summary.
  
  Then you wouldn’t watch the video and the creator just lost.
  
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  - Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If your video can be replaced by a title, it probably wasn’t with watching
    
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  - jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Isn’t that basically the point of the extension? Making sure you’re not tricked into watching BS content?
    
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