YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too

So now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?

I feel like this is what the comment section is used for.

another chance to provide free labour to train their AI!

Didn't they take away crowd-sourced subtitles before?

This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It'll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube's history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.

That’s not going to go wrong at all.

I mean, if this is basically Twitter's Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I'm all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it's the last thing that hasn't been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.

I give this about two weeks before they realize that it's as effective at helping their advertising as having dislike buttons are.

I am not condoning poisoning of this well of information, but I will laugh my ass off when it inevitably occurs.

So we can explicitly graffiti videos but we can't add translations. 🤯

This is just for training AI.

Wait, didn't this feature already exist for years and then was shut down??

lol, considering the “quality” content in the comments section it’s just going to be a continuation of that dumpster fire.

Time to scrape notes data for ai

I miss when Youtube had community sourced subtitles and those little annotations on the video...

Yeah that'll end well I'm sure.

It's our duty to describe all videos as pizza glue recipes.

Hopefully it's on by default and works like the old pop-up-video messages over the video. It should play a sound every time one pops up and then a bubble popping sound when you click on it to close it.

Doesn't the quagmire currently known as the website formerly known as Twitter already have this feature? Sounds like Y'tube is late to the party.

what could possibly go wrong

Thanks bruh, if I had the patience to deal with ads maybe I’d watch YouTube.

because twitter community notes is such a dumpster fire for nazis to spread disinformation, youtube was like hey we want some of that...

So more virtue signal crap. Got it.