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I’m looking for good tools to get AI summaries of YouTube videos preferably open source solutions that I can self-host or at least trust with my privacy.

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 10 points 4 days ago

[AIT] is required for any discussion with an AI topic, such as this one. Please update your title.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] _Nemo_@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Man, that is so outdated! /s

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My brain gets daily updates.

[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I have a few issues to report

[–] frischkaesbagett@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never got a reponse so I just apply a workaround everyday

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I feel that. It's a constant detour.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

Send them to your manufacturer.

[–] _Nemo_@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Hook up the TikTok repos and you'll get downgrades every 20 seconds.

[–] helix@feddit.org 15 points 4 days ago
[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Just forget about the videos you want to summarize and (optionally) eat a cheeseburger instead. I came up with this solution myself. It works instantly, with 0 dependencies, and has a 0% fail rate. It is my intellectual property though, so please pay me $19.99 per day until you get tired of not summarizing youtube videos. Cheeseburgers are not included, btw.

[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago
[–] Larry@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago

AI summary of AI slop for a delicious concentrated slop juice

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 8 points 5 days ago
[–] rustbuckett@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I've used Fabric to summarize the transcriptions. I believe it works with Ollama and local models.

[–] yo6271@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 5 days ago
[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I use yt-dlp to download the audio from a YouTube video and then use MacWhisper to transcribe, and summarize the audio. Not sure what a windows or linux equivalent of MacWhisper would be

[–] yo6271@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

thank you, do you do this manually or do you use a script?

[–] a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I do it so infrequently that I just do it manually. Sometimes my friends send too many YouTube links in our group chat. I care enough to respond to them but not enough to watch them all if it’s going to take up a good chunk of my day to do so.

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Kagi Summarizer (not FOSS, though).

[–] yo6271@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 5 days ago

thank you my friend