Gemini Can Now Watch Google Drive Videos For You
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/211200/gemini-can-now-watch-google-drive-videos-for-you
- Source link:
> The Gemini in Drive feature provides a familiar chatbot interface that can provide quick summaries describing the footage or pull specific information. For example, users can ask Gemini to list action items mentioned in recorded meetings or highlight the biggest updates and new products in an announcement video, saving time spent on manually combing through and taking notes.
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> The feature requires captions to be enabled for videos, and can be accessed using either Google Drive's overlay previewer or a new browser tab window. It's available in English for Google Workspace and Google One AI Premium users, and anyone who has previously purchased Gemini Business or Enterprise add-ons, though it may take a few weeks to fully roll out.
You can learn more about the update in Google's [2]blog post .
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/676245/google-drive-gemini-video-summary-feature
[2] https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/05/understand-videos-using-gemini-google-drive.html
Well... (Score:3)
It's not the AI slop was worth watching, anyways. May as well let an AI choke on it. This is all part of Google's plan to kill off its largest but most problematic product... all of us.
Re: (Score:1, Insightful)
Gemini appears to be a veil for client side scanning. Big tech companies' main goal is to see every data first before the public could. It's all about information control.
Re: Well... (Score:2)
Oh for sure ... tell us exactly what is on your mind. You can trust us.
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So lets all get AI to create a bunch of BS videos and get Gemini to watch them. And then get Gemini to create a bunch of videos based on those same videos, and then watch those. Wash, Rinse, Repeat...
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Your thinking is too low .. aim higher.
No comment (Score:2)
Talk to the hand^H^H^H gemini, 'cause the face ain't listening!
This is just Google trying to get access (Score:4, Insightful)
To your content so it can use it to train their AI.
AI will quickly be owned by only a handful of companies and billionaires who own those companies. And no just cuz you have a 401k or a few shares of stock doesn't mean you own those companies.
That's because the internet is rapidly filling up with AI slop and you can't train a model on another model's AI slop.
So whoever can control a platform that people willingly provide human generated data into is going to dominate everything.
It's going to be facebook, Google and one or two other companies maybe.
If you haven't figured that out this means there is going to be a enormous power imbalance the likes of which you have never experienced in your life.
But I'm sure it's fine and I'm sure nothing will ever change from when you turned 12. Because that's what we all want right? We want to freeze everything in place from that magical time when we were old enough to know what cool shit was but young enough to be protected from the bad stuff. AKA nostalgia.
So is it just reading the captions? (Score:2)
That is such a cop out to claim it is 'watching', and it will never appreciate playboy.
- Failure all around.
Takes notes (Score:2)
Proving that text is a denser form of information. Watching video is nearly a form of torture. It's painfully slow.
Reading and writing are super powers, kiddies. Video is like brainwashing. Propaganda. Watch my video and you can find out 3 reasons why... Or possibly a tiny bit less pernicious and closer to just advertising. I can't bear sitting thru hours that you could scan and read in minutes or seconds. Bla bla Boring.
Is there any irony that you would want in text form what we so desperately needed in vi
It reminds me of a quote from Douglas Adams (Score:5, Insightful)
...when describing an Electric Monk in his book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
> "video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself"
Re: It reminds me of a quote from Douglas Adams (Score:2)
That 's brilliant. Pack up this thread and go home. Truly the last word.
I need one of those monks. I only read about what's on TV. I unplugged It. Seems like I made an excellent choice.