<p>Alphabet's YouTube will soon allow users to add 'notes' that will provide context on some of its videos as part of a new feature that will be initially rolled out in the United States, it said on Monday.</p><p>YouTube will invite certain users and creators, as part of the initial test phase, to write notes that are meant to provide "relevant, timely, and easy-to-understand context" on videos.</p><p>The notes, for instance could clarify when a song is meant to be a parody, point out when a new version of a product being reviewed is available, or let viewers know when older footage is mistakenly portrayed as a current event.</p><p>Social media platform X has a similar feature called Community Notes through which it allows select contributors to add context to posts including tags such as "misleading" and "out of context".</p>.US Supreme Court to hear Nvidia bid to scuttle shareholder lawsuit.<p>The notes feature on YouTube will be available initially on mobile to users in the US and in English. In this phase, third-party evaluators will rate the helpfulness of notes, which will help train the systems, before a potential broader rollout, YouTube said.</p><p>Viewers in the US will start to see notes on videos in the coming weeks and months.</p>
<p>Alphabet's YouTube will soon allow users to add 'notes' that will provide context on some of its videos as part of a new feature that will be initially rolled out in the United States, it said on Monday.</p><p>YouTube will invite certain users and creators, as part of the initial test phase, to write notes that are meant to provide "relevant, timely, and easy-to-understand context" on videos.</p><p>The notes, for instance could clarify when a song is meant to be a parody, point out when a new version of a product being reviewed is available, or let viewers know when older footage is mistakenly portrayed as a current event.</p><p>Social media platform X has a similar feature called Community Notes through which it allows select contributors to add context to posts including tags such as "misleading" and "out of context".</p>.US Supreme Court to hear Nvidia bid to scuttle shareholder lawsuit.<p>The notes feature on YouTube will be available initially on mobile to users in the US and in English. In this phase, third-party evaluators will rate the helpfulness of notes, which will help train the systems, before a potential broader rollout, YouTube said.</p><p>Viewers in the US will start to see notes on videos in the coming weeks and months.</p>