points by janalsncm 3 days ago | 0 comments
> There is AI involved, so you can never actually be sure how accurate it is
If you don’t want to watch the full video, how will you know whether the summary is accurate or not?
One option is you could extract the transcript from the video (using AI, since the author-provided transcripts aren’t necessarily accurate) and read it. The technology for this already exists.
> Give it a text box, so I can ask it stuff
This is going to use AI as well.
Yes. That's just what I said, right? In the end, you have no clue what energy drink, shaver, VPN or whatever they were going to sell you. ^^
But for random topics like 'Clip Art' or 'Supersonic Trebuchets', I think I don't want to read the full transcript either. :) It's going to be a lot of text, and most of it is drivel and padding.
In that regard the knowstash.ai summary was indeed exactly what I wanted!
>> Give it a text box, so I can ask it stuff > This is going to use AI as well.
Well, sure it does. But you are trying to connect two considerations together here that weren't meant to have any connection. I don't want the text box as a mitigation against inaccuracy.
Maybe (particularly for larger videos), I have some questions that are not answered by the summary (that's the point of a summary). And maybe the model can give me some helpful answers.
And it will have the same dangers of being inaccurate when AI has a bad day. And that's still fine for me for random YT clips passing by.