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by ax8080 1246 days ago
Thank you!!

> Please could you give an overview of how this actually works?

1. I download Youtube subtitles (it doesn't work for videos without youtube subtitles yet. my analytics shows that 15% of videos don't have subtitles. I tried to use OpenAI Whisper, but it takes several minutes to transcribe a video, so I put that task off for now)

2. Then I break the transcript into parts.

3. Then I summarize each part with GPT → and then I summarize the summaries to get chapter names → and then I summarize again to get the title.

Yes, I use OpenAI GPT API. I pay them their standard pricing for davinci-003 and the cost for 1 video is between $0.1 and $0.9 depending on the video length (actually, the transcript length). I have a hard limit to prevent abuse.

Yep, it's fully customizable. Yes, you can provide data to it. It would take 1 hour of coding to make a prototype of a chat bot. And then 500 hours to make it work well.