Google’s You Tube testing new experimental generative AI features

A You Tube blog posting, said in part: “In addition to the AI tools we recently shared that help make it easier to create on YouTube, we’re testing two experiments that integrate generative AI into the YouTube viewing experience. Because these experiments are very small, you might not see them just yet! If you are a Premium member, you may be eligible to test these experiments at youtube.com/new. If you do try these experiments, let us know what you think by sending feedback. Here’s more about the experiments: To help you easily understand and participate in comment conversations, we’re experimenting with AI that organizes large comment sections of long-form videos into easily digestible themes. If you’re part of this experiment, when you open the comment section on mobile, you’ll see a new option to sort by Topics on some videos. Creators can use these comment summaries to more quickly jump into comment discussions on their videos, or to draw inspiration for new content based on what their audiences are discussing. If creators want to remove any comment topics, they can delete individual comments that show up under the specific topic. Also, topics are pulled from published comments only and cannot be created from comments that are held for review, contain blocked words or are from blocked users. This experiment is running on a small number of videos in English that have large comment sections. YouTube Premium members, starting later today, you can opt-in to test this out at youtube.com/new. Keep in mind anyone testing this feature out won’t see it on every YouTube video.”