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I went back and reviewed the GenAI Product Preview demo and slides, and didn't see any mention of course and lecture summaries. It was toward the end of the FAQ only:

When will the AI Assistant’s “summarize course/lecture” feature show up? How will it impact course watch time and instructor revenue?

Summarization of a course or a lecture will only show up if a learner  asks for a summary during  content discovery. For in-course, there will be a prompt that learners  can click to summarize the lecture or course. These summaries are intended to be brief and act like the Course Landing Page to drive learners to consume more lectures, rather than to replace the lecture.

I feel like this feature was downplayed to us. If it is widely used by learners to quickly skim through courses in a way that doesn't credit us with minutes and moves consumption to a place with zero revshare, then instructors who did not opt out will find themselves at a disadvantage. Is it still the case that these summaries will be too brief and unspecific to be used as a replacement for the actual content? Can UB learners mark a lesson as viewed if all they did was read the summary? It would be really helpful to see it in action to allay our fears.

Also, the opt-out terms said they would go into effect at the end of 2024. Have AI features been deployed into production using data from opted-out instructors?

Wow… this is scary stuff! And glad Udemy has handled it.