TECH - 'YouTube Is Copying Community Notes Right Down To The Nitty-Gritty' Says Senior Engineer At Elon Musk's X: 'It's A Big Vote Of Confidence' | Benzinga
Earlier this week, in a move that closely mirrors the Community Notes feature of Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube has started experimenting with a new feature.
What Happened: On Monday, Jay Baxter, a senior engineer at X spoke about the development at YouTube saying that Google’s online video-sharing platform is replicating Community Notes with remarkable precision, including the same note rating options and algorithms.
“YouTube is copying Community Notes right down to the nitty-gritty details,” he said, adding, “To be honest I thought they’d take the core idea and then rebuild it more from scratch, so it’s a big vote of confidence to see them copy many of the lower-level details too.”
Baxter ...