Can GPT-4 block ads better than humans? We put an AI-powered ad blocker to the test
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AI 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.

  • @[email protected]English
    24•1 year ago

    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
      19•1 year ago

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

    • Max
      2•1 year ago

      TIL. That’s an interesting craft!

    • RQG
      2•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.