Yes. The answer is Yes. And Hank Green brings receipts.
10 points
It’s called sponsorblock, and there is no machine learning involved whatsoever. The data is crowdsourced.
6 points
That data is also publicly available (of course), so a model could be trained on it. I’d love to say I’d doubt Google/YouTube would ever do that, but at this point nothing would surprise me.
1 point
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If you move the slider on a video you’ll see which parts were watched most. The big peaks usually indicate people skipping sponsored segments.
You don’t need AI for it.
3 points
