The Need for an "AI Comments" Section
The other day I was watching a YouTube video and was actually wondering what ChatGPT or Claude would have to say about the video.
I was surprised to see that YouTube or pretty much any platform doesn’t seem to have an AI comments section. People look forward to the comments section the most on every video or pic they engage with. At the same time, people turn to AI for thoughts and second opinions on everything else going on in their everyday life. It seems natural to me that we would also want to solicit AI opinions in the comments section too for all kinds of media.
Probably, to some extent, many comments today are already AI generated, but I think a separate comments section for AI generated responses could be interesting if the language models had more personality and were original enough. An AI comments section could increase user engagement and retention, help kickstart a comments section for new YouTube creators, and connect people around the world better to content creators they love to watch.
It seems like one of those things that is probably already possible with today’s tech. I guess the real problem is that we’re always stuck looking at everyday things with the lens of the past.