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 ...

An investigation from Proof News published Tuesday reports that some of the world's largest tech companies, including Apple and Nvidia, are training AI systems with YouTube video transcripts without ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I teased yesterday in my story about processing video transcripts on the Mac using Simon Willison’s llm CLI, I wanted to write about the shortcut that actually generates those raw video transcripts ...