Can GPT-4 block ads better than humans? We put an AI-powered ad blocker to the test
adguard.comAI has been widely used in applications to streamline and improve their work — but what about ad blocking? We tested an AI-powered ad blocker and come to you with the results.
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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Pretty sure the block lists used by ad-blockers are still created by hand.
I’m using a sponsor skipper that is crowd sourced. Every user of the extension can flag an ad in a video.
TIL. Updated the post.
TIL. That’s an interesting craft!
Yeah, that is exactly how sponsorblock works: crowd-sourced manual identification of sponsor segments!