YouTube Introduces Experimental 'Notes' for Users To Add Context To Videos (blog.youtube) 39
YouTube is piloting a new feature called "Notes" that allows viewers to add context and information under videos. The move comes as YouTube aims to minimize the spread of misinformation on its platform, particularly during the pivotal 2024 U.S. election year. The feature, similar to Community Notes on X (formerly Twitter), will initially be available on mobile in the U.S. in English.
Clickbait spoilers? (Score:2)
I just hope there is an army of people with clickbait spoilers or who are ready to post timestamps of the actual relevant portion of the video.
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Which only the "good guys" will use to attach to "bad guy" misinformation videos.
In terms of screen writing, "...but then the bad guys attached notes to the good guy videos."
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I am not sure how you can enforce such a thing but if someone is "correcting" what they feel is misinformation any comment should include a source with the "correct" information.
One thing Twitter does have going for it today is the Community Notes (what I feel Youtube is cribbing here) was a good addition and they do seem to always carry links to sources.
Now that always turns into a tit-for-tat of sources but that's not a bad thing but if what's at contention here is a fact-of-the-matter and not just an opi
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It's very easy to make some authoritative-looking links supporting any well-funded political faction.
Community notes has been ridiculed lately, for automatically attaching a "rebuttal" to every instance of a certain image and keywords. The image is an image of hundreds of burned out cars after the Re'im music festival attack. The community note says something like "this has been conclusively rebutted" and links dozens of mainstream media articles/fact checks. People have been abusing themselves by posting t
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The community note says something like "this has been conclusively rebutted" and links dozens of mainstream media articles/fact checks. People have been abusing themselves by posting the image with texts like "Elon is not actually a pedophile", only to have the community note angrily denying that attached in minutes.
This is what I am talking about though, are we talking about whether the information in those links is accurate or not or are we having a conversation about how community notes work and how they are applied? Are we talking about the fact or how the fact is being used?
The image of the burned out cars, are the people posting it claming this is evidence of the IDF attacking the festival? If so that is a fact-of-the-matter, it's true or not true, everything else is meta-conversation.
Of course it gets muddled u
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They mention they want this available for the upcoming elections but facts and politics don't really go together all that well. Most politics is how people "feel" about something, regardless of honesty, integrity or truth.
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Oh absofuckinlutely I think it's plainly clear so much of peoples political and economic viewpoint is a lot of just vibes and while I have seen people like pollsters and sociologists come up with ways in which you can measure this or filter the reality from the whole thing I have to wonder if this is new or just has always been this way (probably this) and really only a minority of people are the "wonks" or even have an interest in that type of thing.
And it makes sense in that peoples political outlooks are
Sceptical (Score:5, Interesting)
Important Contextual Note (Score:3)
Fuck this ad. Skip to 3:40.
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In other words, manual SponsorBlock? Would be funny if people started dumping the SponsorBlock database for each video into the notes for each video.
How to Crowd-Source Your AI Tagging (Score:3)
Is it just me, or does this seem like a sly way for Google to train it's AI how to better caption and summarize videos? Is this just a recurrence of their approach to Captcha?
'Community Notes' does the same on X (Score:2)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/r... [forbes.com]
Musk himself has been noted on X.
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Every single post he makes gets noted. Most of them don't get upvoted enough to appear, but you can see the notes if you've joined the CN program.
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Because he removed community notes from his account for a while. https://www.newsweek.com/elon-... [newsweek.com]
Guess he didn't like that particular free speech.
Re:'Community Notes' does the same on X (Score:4)
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Inbuilt prejudices? I see it as closer to straight-up brainwashing. But, yes, this applies to everybody. Well, except me cuz I watch the true, trustworthy news sources. Unless I'm brainwashed too.
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Thank you for this.
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He doesn't like any free speech which: a) makes him look bad, b) makes Tesla look bad, or c) makes any of his right-wing/Nazi supporters look bad or is critical of the same.
For example, when Tesla was (still is?) receiving thousands of complaints about people not getting the expected driving range, it created a special team [reuters.com] to suppress the complaints, including not allowing people to make service appointments about the issue as well as cancelling al
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Yeah, I remember when the only acceptable people to dox were those making Trump Wrestlemania memes against CNN. Unless you're referring to the LibsofTikTok v Taylor Lorenz shit show.
So no, Must does not like free speech. He only wants his speech.
So he's like everybody else, and decided to
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If he's for free speech, his actions show his hypocrisy. Any time he says he's for free speech, he's lying.
Conservatives were never censored. Ever. Their lies were, and are, out there for everyone to see. The only thing done was to mark those
A good feature, but not enough (Score:3)
What YouTube really needs is a feature where they track user report flags and start punishing users for falsely labeling content as a ToS violation.
I bet they could do something similar with DMCA complaints. The DMCA does provide a lot of protections that can be abused, but I refuse to believe that with a moderation workforce that large and such a solid legal team, Alphabet couldn't fund a few high profile sting operations against aggressive copyright holders that end with Alphabet suing them for filing reports on content that was clearly fair use under current case law.
Political manipulation by Google (Score:4, Insightful)
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Considering Google past behavior around elections,
Oh I'm not familiar with this tale. Please elaborate.
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I think he's referring to many tech companies rather obvious left-leaning bias.
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Conservatives whined about the same thing on Twitter, but it actually works really well there. The community notes are moderated and generally of decent quality, and most importantly they usually are usually factual in nature.
Conservatives don't like them because they prefer "alternative facts", but for normal people they provide useful context and important information for evaluating claims.
you sure about that? (Score:2, Interesting)
Remember when you could dislike a video? (Score:3)
I predict that this will be just as useless as downvoting bad videos of the 'protected class' was in the past. They didn't want us to express our displeasure then, I'm sure that they will certainly curtail that ability in this feature when it suits them.
youtube's own notes (Score:5, Interesting)
Maybe youtube can add notes explaining why it demonetized or axed a video.
Peer 2 peer or separate data for all URL's? (Score:2)
I keep wondering about a way for viewers to decide what information should be recorded about a website. To remove some of the control the people who run the servers exert today. Notes would be a boring version, but a starting point.
I don't trust Amazon to curate reviews properly for example (how hard is it to create fake accounts, 'sell' to yourself, and not really ship the item? Or game the review system by giving away stuff to customers?). FakeSpot is an attempt to decide for me if reviews are valid o
More flamewars (Score:1)
Allowing every nut-job to comment that his political party is the victim, is 'censored' and also, has more rights, will not minimize misinformation. Someone has to fact-check those posts: Alas, one side of the political spectrum is known for not-doing that.
This will be another place for propagandists to post their "alternative facts", not for examining vetted facts.
Please Explain it to Our AI : ( (Score:2)