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Can GPT-4 block ads better than humans? (adguard.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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As usual with questions in title, the answer is no. ~~But IMO it's a flawed comparison because no-one is going around and picking sponsored segments by hand and disabling them. So compared to other automatic tool, I'd say it works fine.~~

Edit: I have been enlightened in the comments that indeed there are such projects.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

no-one is going around and picking sponsored segments by hand

Pretty sure the block lists used by ad-blockers are still created by hand.

[–] skeletorfw@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that is exactly how sponsorblock works: crowd-sourced manual identification of sponsor segments!

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

TIL. Updated the post.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using a sponsor skipper that is crowd sourced. Every user of the extension can flag an ad in a video.

[–] max@nano.garden 2 points 1 year ago

TIL. That's an interesting craft!