YouTube, the largest video-sharing platform worldwide has been slowly adding new AI-powered features like video summaries in the last few months. Now, the Google-owned company is experimenting with another AI-powered functionality that automatically sorts YouTube Shorts user comments and groups them into topics. According to a recent update by the YouTube Team, the new feature can "help you understand and participate in conversations on YouTube" and helps "organize large comment sections on English-language Shorts into easily digestible themes." This might allow users to jump on the topics they are interested in and help save a lot of time since they will no longer have to scroll through all sorts of comments. It looks like the feature is currently limited to the mobile version of the app and is available to a handful of users or Shorts that have a huge number of comments. YouTube says that while comments are automatically sorted into topics, creators can easily remove or keep the ones they don't want. Also, these topics are created from the list of published comments and do not take inspiration from comments that are held for review or contain blocked words. Google says the new Shorts feature was rolled out after it received positive feedback for AI-powered comment topics creator for long-form videos. Apart from using AI to group comments, the company was recently spotted testing a new feature called 'Dream Screen' that allows creators to use an AI-generated green screen background for Shorts.
