YouTube Search Gets Its Own Version of Google's AI Overviews
(Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:40PM (BeauHD)
from the AI-all-the-things dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/26/2031231/youtube-search-gets-its-own-version-of-googles-ai-overviews
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Google is [1]bringing its AI Overviews-like feature to YouTube in the [2]form of an "AI-powered search results carousel ." The Verge reports:
> As shown in [3]a video , the search results carousel will show a big video clip up top, thumbnails to a selection of other relevant video clips directly under that, and an AI-generated bit of text responding to your query. To see a full video, tap on the big clip at the top of the carousel.
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> The feature is currently only accessible on iOS and Android and for videos in English and will be available to test until July 30th, per the [4]YouTube experiments page . Additionally, only a "randomly selected number of Premium members" will have access to it, YouTube says in [5]a support document .
[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-youtube-ai-tools-summer-2025/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/693658/youtube-search-ai-overviews-google
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COYibrEk54
[4] https://www.youtube.com/new
[5] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16292076#zippy=%2Cwho-can-access-the-ai-powered-results-carousel-on-youtube
> As shown in [3]a video , the search results carousel will show a big video clip up top, thumbnails to a selection of other relevant video clips directly under that, and an AI-generated bit of text responding to your query. To see a full video, tap on the big clip at the top of the carousel.
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> The feature is currently only accessible on iOS and Android and for videos in English and will be available to test until July 30th, per the [4]YouTube experiments page . Additionally, only a "randomly selected number of Premium members" will have access to it, YouTube says in [5]a support document .
[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-youtube-ai-tools-summer-2025/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/693658/youtube-search-ai-overviews-google
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COYibrEk54
[4] https://www.youtube.com/new
[5] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16292076#zippy=%2Cwho-can-access-the-ai-powered-results-carousel-on-youtube
Well, that decides it. (Score:2)
I was thinking about signing up for premium to avoid all the AI slop in the ads, but if I end up facing it anyway with a premium sub I don't think I'll bother.