[saimiam]

> Video is linear and demands a fixed time commitment

I recently saw that YouTube allows you to “chat” with videos through AI and can surface random content from the middle of the video if you ask it to.

[abustamam]

That's neat, but now it's almost as if YouTube is encouraging people not to watch videos, but to just make AI give you the cliff notes.

[satvikpendem]

I absolutely use it for this because lots of videos drone on and pad their length for the ad revenue, so I ask the AI to summarize and then I can click through exactly what I want to see. I found myself actually watching more videos now, not less, because I know I don't have to listen to them for 10 minutes and waste my time when they don't get to the point.

[abustamam]

Oh I agree, I use it for the same reason. It just seems counterintuitive to YouTubes bottom line (ie discouraging folks like us from watching to video to give them ad money)