Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

Some of the world’s largest tech companies trained their AI models on a dataset that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission, a new investigation from Proof News ...

Did you know that instead of watching a YouTube video, you can read it? That sounds extremely counter-productive in the age of video-everything, but there’s a semi-hidden transcript function on ...

Google has added automatic transcripts to videos in Drive. Google has added automatic transcripts to videos in Drive. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and entertainment. He has written news ...

I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line ...

Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all ...

YouTube videos are an amazing source of knowledge. But they’re often long, and trying to find a specific shred of info within an hour-long video isn’t exactly a great use of your time. Google will ...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) companies scraped YouTube video transcripts to train their engines, claims a new report. Several popular YouTubers such as MrBeast and Marques Brownlee have ...