Subtitles are parsed by their LLMs for the pointless summaries placed right belo...

kingstnap · 2026-01-19T10:10:50 1768817450

They aren't useless, it's nice for finding timestamps of things, especially in long content like talks.

wpm · 2026-01-20T07:08:55 1768892935

So...something you could do with the browser's built-in ability to parse text files, which YouTube could simply serve the subtitles to you as?

aurareturn · 2026-01-19T09:40:37 1768815637

Is it pointless? I find myself asking for summaries of videos more and more often.

wpm · 2026-01-20T07:09:49 1768892989

You should find yourself asking if those summaries are actually accurate, faithful summaries of the video content at all.

Like, is reading a digest version of War and Peace the same thing as War and Peace?

aurareturn · 2026-01-20T12:39:12 1768912752

For videos with low enough importance, I do not care if the LLM makes a mistake here and there.

For videos where with high importance to me, I can watch it myself.

expedition32 · 2026-01-19T12:03:24 1768824204

Ha hilarious all these content creators started making long rambling videos to make more advertising money.

I have always maintained that I can read text faster but literacy is going down the drain.