My experiments around Summarizing YouTube Videos with LLMs have been working well on my Mac laptop, but I’d really like to run it as a service on a regular schedule. Running the OpenAI Whisper transcription process locally requires more than 1GB that my favorite Digital Ocean droplets provide. Instead I’ve added an option to run it directly against the OpenAI Transcriptions AI (the official OpenAI Python library makes it very easy). To use the online API you’ll need an API key set up either as pay-as-you-go or with a ChatGPT Plus subscription (which is what I have). After I’ve run…
Over the holiday break I was thinking about taking transcriptions of YouTube videos and running them through an LLM for summaries. My inspiration was the dust up around Honey coupon code browser extension. Most of the news pointed to MegaLag’s video Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam. It’s a 23 minute video which isn’t too bad, but I wondered whether a summary would help here? Python Solution I built a simple pipeline in Python that takes a list of YouTube channels and produces a summary email for each published video: YouTube channels have a standard RSS feed which makes this first…
The Discovery Channel has been running new commercials that preview upcoming new seasons for several of their shows. As in the past, the commercials are well-made and (for me at least) can get you really jazzed up for many of their shows. They’ve obviously got a great advertising team and I wish they’d post these commercials on their own site (where you can now get full video of most of their shows). Instead, we need to hunt around to dig up copies like this one: [ View this video on YouTube. ] The montage commercials they showed last year were…
If you haven’t yet seen the Explanations in Plain English series from Common Craft, you really need to go check them out. The latest in the series came out this week and it’s titled “Twitter in Plain English”. Common Craft has created a simple but effective presentation method using paper cut-outs and a whiteboard to explain technical topics.