Derushing in general is the most time consuming, so not only language pattern recognition but also image recognition: "From the rushes, extract all the sequences with bicycle crashes to give me a pile of clips to use in my edit" !

> I allude to it

And that’s why I read the comments to see if anyone mentioned it.

To be able to literally take the source files used to put the video together and edit each piece individually would be great.

I wanted to create a car driving down a road covered in arches if greenery. I got lots of great options but I wanted a particular combination of options. If I could do something like that with video, that would be terrific

It's approaching a very strange situation where people make overly wordy and bloated AI generated content and other people try to use AI to compress it back into useful pellets vaguely corresponding to the actual prompts used to generate the initial content. Which were the only bits anybody cared about in the first place.

One guy pays the AI to dig a hole, the other guy pays the AI to fill in the hole. Back and forth they go, raising the BNP but otherwise not accomplishing anything.

Not sure about articles, but people keep recommending multi-hour-long podcasts and videos far beyond the ability of any employed person to keep up with what they might want, so a summary is a useful tool to extract the salient points and possibly consider if something meets the threshold of being better than all the other hour-long things I might want to spend my free hour on.

It sometimes feels like media has bifurcated into hyper-dense (let me explain a whole field of law in a 30 second tiktok) versus hyper-fluffy (documentary with 30 minutes of material spread out into six episodes, with a recap before and after each commercial break), depending on whether the target audience has a job or not.

I generally agree with you when it comes to learning-focused content but there are definite cases where using an AI summary makes a lot of sense.

Imagine searching for a guide on how to disassemble your laptop. Unfortunately, you can only find a 30 minute video which is full of rambling, ads or other things irrelevant to you. You can at least in theory use AI to produce a textual summary which contains only the disassembly instructions and relevant snapshots of the video.

All professionals I've ever talked to seem to agree that videos are a terrible form of reference information (i.e. you need information to accomplish a task right now).

The same applies to recipe websites: an AI that can throw all the fluff away is useful considering the annoying habit of the authors to seemingly write about everything but ingredients and the steps necessary to cook the dish.

I think this relates to the https://nick.groenen.me/posts/the-4-types-of-technical-docum... as in any documentation that serves immediate work rather than learning should be straight to the point with as little clutter as possible.

I totally agree. What is life living with just summaries?

Podcasts and blog posts fall into "unique value/view/information I am learning" or entertainment "something that feels like a (parasocial) friend - content I can predictably expect and get some dopamine/sense of socialness from".

Summaries for the former remove the eureka moments and brain connections between ideas, replacing them with takeaways, and summaries for the latter are like summarizing a TV episode in text: no entertainment tends to really come from it.

I think it comes from having many messages at work, and I get that. When you have 50-100 messages/documents a day, quick summaries are a lifesaver, they help you filter, avoid, or get to the facts. But for things I select listening to.. for those hours of rest or (scientific) curiosity in my life.. summaries are not a virtue.

(for Parasocial - the feeling is: This person won't update me on their relationship problems, they'll explain a cool thing about castles to me and share their opinion, etc.)

It has a lot to do with the kinds of articles that appear on HN and across the internet. And also, that spending time on something requires being interested in it, and so, there's a larger audience for summaries.

I think, in general, most people have areas of interest to them where it would not occur to them to summarise what they're having fun engaging with.

People use these summaries to generate spam which they sell to advertising networks, that's why they keep talking about it.

Thats fair, and there will always be people who want summaries.

I don't read much online drivel, but the way I would describe my interest in AI summary/model building, is that I do read a few articles/books deeply, but these refer to many other things that it would be useful to have a general picture of in my mind, but I'm never going to put the manual effort into building that surrounding structure.

E.g. I'm interested in classical art, and come across a lot of "he painted this while he was in $X before he moved to $Y". I'd like information about $X and $Y to be also available, how far apart are they, were they ruled by the same people, etc. But I won't be doing that sort of digging myself, I'd like it to show up next to what I'm reading, because I (will) have an AI reading along and doing this work for me.

You don't understand! I need to procrastinate more efficiently!

I think this is sometimes true, and certainly after a ton of failure first.

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>What if I could watch a custom edit of Starship Troopers on demand, and this edit surprised me with something new? I don't know exactly how this would look, but maybe it's interesting?

this is not interesting whatsoever actually

>What if I could watch a custom edit of Starship Troopers on demand, and this edit surprised me with something new? I don't know exactly how this would look, but maybe it's interesting?

Is this what you want to do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUR6ylVH7E

There is a high time cost to actual video editing and managing the details well, quite different than generating one template/perception of it, which is more where social media slop is at.