SponsorBlock – Skip over sponsorship segments on YouTube

With a million labelled examples, it ought to be possible to use machine learning to detect sponsorships.

A simple version using the auto-generated captions should be pretty straightforward - I'm sure a machine learning model can figure out how to detect "This video is supported by..."

Some channels make a lengthy sketch with sponsor "reveal" at the very end

Check out https://ai.neuralblock.app/

All the data is public, so anyone can try!

I still think this will remain human-made for the foreseeable future, as an AI will probably never be able to make the millisecond-precise segments that it currenty has