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You can do it yourself and you'll gain more knowledge by doing it. Maybe even ask a human friend for a review.
I've used AI for this and I've seen how silly it was to waste time on something I could do myself and still get out of my comfort zone. It puts you in a low-level dependency zone, modifying something that should be authentic out of a need to appear better to those who will read it, which you are not, robotic and shallow.
You can do it yourself
Transcribe hours of youtube videos to make them searchable? Sure I can, but I can spend my time better. My gpu is otherwise idle, so why not?
Defensive summarization is just an anti-clickbait measure to protect against wasting time reading articles based on a title that is not corresponding to the actual content, which unfortunately is common practice nowadays. Takes under 5s of GPU time for average articles, but would take me 10 minutes + frustration for each. I don't need more frustration from clickbait, I've been frustrated for years by this.
a need to appear better to those who will read it, which you are not, robotic and shallow.
I don't need to appear better though? I don't care about appearances.
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This type of transcription existed in the community, but unfortunately it didn't catch on. By that I mean it didn't have to be done by you. And why do you need to summarize a video like this, when faced with situations like this the most common question I ask myself is whether it's worth it?
I don't care about appearances.
I misunderstood that you could use summarize to make it more presentable in an email or other type of communication. That's my criticism, but not yours.
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This type of transcription existed in the community
It did, but why would I waste another human's time with something that can be automated?
And why do you need to summarize a video like this, when faced with situations like this the most common question I ask myself is whether it's worth it?
For example: nowadays in discussions, people will sometimes link you a 5 hour video or a podcast from some influencer that "proves their point". I am often in situations where I have to defend against all this nonsense for the "dayjob", so I just run it through transcription and grep through the text to find what was exactly said about a subject, and then can precisely seek a point in the video if I need more context.
It's a protective measure to somewhat balance the scales within Brandolini's Law, it works for now, but I fear it won't work for long, because we will just be confronted with ever-larger floods of slop.
I'm not insensitive to your proposed solution of just not using it and thus finding other ways of dealing with it - eventually we'll likely have to - but as a stopgap measure, it's a good experiment to find out how long this will work for.
I misunderstood that you could use summarize to make it more presentable in an email or other type of communication.
Oh! No, I don't need slop in my emails and I generally don't publish any AI output, unless it's test results or a joke.
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