Yandex did that in their products. It’s doable.
Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
ours@lemmy.world 2 months agoYeah, they could put the ads in the same stream but it would be too costly or inflexible. Ads have to be targeted to the specific market or even user so that would kill their advantage and turn them into generic TV ads.
Llewellyn@lemm.ee 2 months ago
diffusive@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you don’t have to reencode but only concatenate the streams it can be done for your request specifically because it’s not meaningfully more expensive than just serving the content
lorkano@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What stops you with skipping past this part of the stream? It would be more effective on livestreams, not videos
diffusive@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The position and length can be randomized, for sure you can throw ai at it… but ai is stupidly expensive… companies that offer AI systems are all operating that business at loss… and no big company would engage in something like this… distilled model on client? Sure… but who trains it? My point is… things can get worse and worse