'Jump Ahead' will supposedly offer to skip premium users to the part of the video that you actually came to watch (if there's a disproportionate level of viewtime around a specific moment or something like that). It's in experimental right now, but you can already access this capability by just using the SponsorBlock plugin/addon for your browser, regardless of Premium status.
Also, what assholes! What a shit move. Not just for the LLM usage (b/c jee wonder what data they used to train it??) but because, lol, you're paying for Youtube, here, skip the video and get right to the bit you want to watch.
Now, that might not seem so bad: why linger when you're not getting served ads?
Well, Youtube Premium pays out to creators based on views from Premium members. Not watch time, just views. Which also seems fine, right?
Except it pays out 55% of your subscription to channels, divvied up based on the total time spent watching a channel that month. So, if you use this feature... You're inherently going to be giving these channels less of your Premium.
And likely giving more of it to whatever the fuck 5hr looped bullshit Youtube decides to show you on autoplay after you fall asleep watching videos. Granted, a lot of it can be stufff you've watched or would watch, but fuck me, sometimes it LOVES to 'accidentally' slip in some totally unrelated 'because it's popular!' recommends in there, and that's fucking intentional.
They're just taking more control over what your money goes toward, couching it as a 'useful feature', and it fucking suuuucks.
I also saw an LLM function on a Youtube stream chat that was actually maybe useful, and it only made me more angry that if they can appeal to me, then they're likely swarming in users that think this is all a win. The feature summarised the current chat topics in a stream chat, making it really easy to get the gist of what was going on at the time in chat.
SUPER useful feature, obviously! Clearly also just a training step toward a greater processing of chat.
Fuck 'em.
