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YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/enshittification@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (4 children)

And then Google sues the AI provider to stop them from doing that.

AI is not our tool, it is a corporate tool, for corporate profits, that they deign to let us dabble with, but only when it suits them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You could probably train something like that on semi-reasonable consumer hardware. Ads often have a very distinctive style and tone, and you need only a single output - the probability of it being any given second being an ad. It would probably take a lot to run though, you better hope the people who install the extension have good PCs. And, it would probably never get 100% accurate, you'd have to put up with still seeing some ads and having to rewind when it skips over valid video.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It's usually even easier than that... In my jurisdiction, ads have to be clearly labeled and identified. It should be relatively trivial to detect this label.

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