Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

YouTube videos are an amazing source of knowledge. But they’re often long, and trying to find a specific shred of info within an hour-long video isn’t exactly a great use of your time. Google will ...

Did you know that instead of watching a YouTube video, you can read it? That sounds extremely counter-productive in the age of video-everything, but there’s a semi-hidden transcript function on ...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) companies scraped YouTube video transcripts to train their engines, claims a new report. Several popular YouTubers such as MrBeast and Marques Brownlee have ...

An investigation from Proof News published Tuesday reports that some of the world's largest tech companies, including Apple and Nvidia, are training AI systems with YouTube video transcripts without ...

I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

We’ve all been there: you click on a YouTube video hoping for a quick answer, only to realise it’s 45 minutes long and packed with tangents. Tutorials, interviews, lectures, and explainers often bury ...

Some of the world's largest tech companies trained their AI models on a dataset that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission, a new investigation from Proof News ...

One of ChatGPT's best features is the ability to summarize information, which I use regularly. While the AI has no problem reviewing text-based content like websites or large PDFs, it can't yet watch ...

Google is rolling out auto-translated video captions for YouTube on mobile devices, with support for 16 languages, the company announced during its I/O 2022 keynote today. The feature is live now.

The chatbot’s summarization feature relies on preprocessed video data or existing subtitles and transcripts. The chatbot’s summarization feature relies on preprocessed video data or existing subtitles ...