HACKER Q&A
📣 crate_barre

Can ML help filter YouTube better


I really need the following things filtered:

1. Any video using sentimental music (usually piano) to explain a story (helping someone etc, rescuing and a dog and shit).

2. Need someone to model those video with cadences where someone talks like a YouTuber, you know when their voice cuts right into the next sentence, sort of like removing frames from an action movie. They are getting to sound like that TV reporter archetype.

3. Identify the ‘please please like and subscribe’

4. Can we model the live ad reads and catch those?

I honestly don’t know anything about ML but I’ll literally sit through anyone’s Coursera (Will pay $$$) if you just walk through the concepts and how things like this can be tackled.

In other words, I’m suggesting the future of spam and ad blocking has to occur on this level, because there’s no other way.


  👤 heavyset_go Accepted Answer ✓
I agree with jstx1's sentiment. It would be easier to run a 3rd party service that users can submit information to a la SponsorBlock:

> SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.


👤 soueuls
I don't think it's practical and your examples are too specific. For the promotions (or auto promotions) there is SponsorBlock, it works pretty well for most well known channel.

For the rest, it's mostly creator specific. If a creator is abusing sentimental music in many videos, or I don't like the way he/she talks. I just hit "unsubscribe" and move on.


👤 version_five
Not that it's important, but your post reminded me of a movie quote that I finally figured out is from Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows.

Moriarty:

> So you're not fighting me...so much as you are the human condition


👤 jstx1
There's two different questions:

- can ML algortihms do these things? yes, to all of your points

- can you realistically run such an ML service? only if you're youtube.