[merth]

there are AI summary plugins that summarize youtube videos for you. instead of watching 1 hour video, you can get the summary in 15 seconds. this one I use but there are plenty of others as well https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-summary-wit...

[singleshot_]

1) a smart person writes something 2) a grifter makes that written product into a YouTube video optimized for slurping up advertising money 3) a grifter makes an AI summary for slurping up… well I guess I don’t really understand the business model but it does not seem like an improvement. Why not just read the book and pay the author?

[red-iron-pine]

because time isn't fungible, and 99% of books, esp. about factual-ish stuff, can usually be boiled down to a few bulletpoints.

most books don't require that much nuance, nor "the experience" of reading it