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While still an experiment, this feature is essentially AI Mode for video. And just as that mode reshaped the economics of web publishing, I suspect it will have real consequences for YouTube as well. Today there many large creators with channels dedicated to how-to videos, crafting, cooking, home repair, tutoring, and other educational subjects. Those channels make money by getting people to subscribe to them, watch mid-roll ads on their videos, and stay to the end. Ask YouTube, on the other hand, might return a synthesized answer that stitches 30 seconds from three different videos — and resolves your question well enough that you never click into any of them. The old job of the YouTube search bar was to direct you to the best video for your query; its new job is to create a multimedia answer to your question, with video as a component.