YouTube is testing its own AI Overviews, offering summaries like Google’s AI snapshot feature.
This experiment aims to enhance user experience by quickly summarizing video content and search results using AI.
Google expands the AI summary capability to YouTube by providing video previews for chosen YouTube Premium members in the United States who search using English queries.
The LLM algorithm generates search results in text form for Google while YouTube shows AI-generated video highlight clips for specific videos.
Google stated through YouTube Community forum posts that “The new feature applies machine learning to select video clips which will direct users towards the most appropriate content matching their search terms.”
The tool should activate during searches about choosing between products like “best noise cancelling headphones” or exploring destination possibilities such as “museums to visit in San Francisco.”
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The main issue with the AI overview in search involves Google using its summarized version to divert traffic from publications contained in the original search results. Systems introduced on YouTube are expected to generate identical issues for video producers.
Premium YouTube members will provide feedback through a thumbs-up or thumbs-down system to the AI-generated summary clips according to Google. The duration and expansion plans for YouTube’s AI overview service among Premium members remain undisclosed to the public by Google.
