You know when you fire up a YouTube video and within the first two minutes the guy from the thumbnail has already said something obviously untrue? Instead of the sole recourse being pumping your fist while writing a corrective comment nobody will ever see, Google will soon let some users submit a Twitter-style "note" under those videos to provide valuable context or corrections.
Just like Twitter Community Notes, YouTube's experimental notes will be written by users, with one notable difference: During this pilot program, Google is using "third-party evaluators" to rate the helpfulness of notes and ultimately determine if they appear under a video. Contributors will eventually be able to rate notes if the feature is expanded. The company announced the feature on the YouTube blog in June, but is only now getting around to inviting people to try it out.
