But Jeff, what will the public meeting fanatics do if we no longer need to post threads of the meetings we watch online? These AI companies will take everything from us. We’ll be forced to spend more nights with our friends and loved ones like normal people
I found my locality was posting videos but the transcript was embedded as a VTT file in the page source rather than, you know, just easily downloadable. Then I found that the VTT content was really shittily constructed with heaps of duplicate text and sometimes it would be completely corrupted with timestamp overlap. So I built a VTT parser that will export just clean text with timestamps that I then load into a Claude project that's got a fine tuned prompt to summarize and catch any key phrases based on my areas of interest. But like, why the hell should I have to do this myself? Why gatekeep this? Only because someone is worried that the AI generated summaries won't be completely accurate? Like, what human generated summaries are guaranteed to be accurate? The bureaucratic world turns slowly.
But Jeff, what will the public meeting fanatics do if we no longer need to post threads of the meetings we watch online? These AI companies will take everything from us. We’ll be forced to spend more nights with our friends and loved ones like normal people
Truly this is the collapse of civilization the doomers warned us about
I found my locality was posting videos but the transcript was embedded as a VTT file in the page source rather than, you know, just easily downloadable. Then I found that the VTT content was really shittily constructed with heaps of duplicate text and sometimes it would be completely corrupted with timestamp overlap. So I built a VTT parser that will export just clean text with timestamps that I then load into a Claude project that's got a fine tuned prompt to summarize and catch any key phrases based on my areas of interest. But like, why the hell should I have to do this myself? Why gatekeep this? Only because someone is worried that the AI generated summaries won't be completely accurate? Like, what human generated summaries are guaranteed to be accurate? The bureaucratic world turns slowly.
I’ve never even heard of VTT 😅
Awesome getting the chance to connect with you on this Jeff!