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It’s useful for getting summaries of long YouTube videos - I’m found it semi helpful for improving my Davinci Resolve skills.

That said Google is screwing the pooch as usual by trying to make it another walled garden. Slap an API on NoteboolLM already! The market research has already been done - there’s even an unofficial API https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1eti9iz/api_for...

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For YouTube videos it's hard to beat (1) copy transcript to clipboard (from eg tactiq) (2) paste into LLM chat and ask for summary

It's hard for every AI product to beat that workflow lol. It works well for basically everything.

Full disclosure, I work for Google opinions are my own etc etc

The LLM built into YouTube is one of the few LLM chatbots bolted onto existing apps that I actually find useful. Not just for summaries but questions like "what is the timestamp in this 2 hour video where they talk about _____".

> "what is the timestamp in this 2 hour video where they talk about _____"

wow I gave up searching specific timestampos of long videos before. Never again.

Thank you!

"LLM built into YouTube…" The what now? This is the first I've heard of this.

I suspect he doesn't know he's talking about some internal tool that Google hasn't released to the public.

I thought it was for everyone my bad. Turns out except for some educational videos it's just for premium subscribers with certain location/language combos (you can probably guess which...)

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14110396?hl=en

how do we access this?

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14110396

If you're not already a premium subscriber you may want to stick with other tools. I didn't mean to unintentionally advertise YouTube Premium:)

Thanks, but it seems that because I am outside the USA I’m not quite “premium” enough.

Or just paste the video URL onto Gemini and ask for summary, no need to search for any transcript

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