{"id":865747,"date":"2025-08-16T21:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/yelp-is-creating-its-own-ai-videos-about-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:16:14","slug":"yelp-is-creating-its-own-ai-videos-about-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/yelp-is-creating-its-own-ai-videos-about-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/svg><\/span><\/span>Jay Peters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those businesses. The company initially started testing the AI-stitched videos last year<\/a>, but they\u2019re now available nationwide on the iOS app\u2019s TikTok-like vertically scrolling home feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Business operators can\u2019t currently preview the generated videos or get an update when one is created, and Yelp users also can\u2019t currently opt out of having their photos or videos show up in Yelp\u2019s AI-stitched videos. Yelp relies on multiple generative AI tools to create the finished product, as OpenAI LLMs write the text descriptions and narrator\u2019s script, put together story topics, and proofread, while ElevenLabs is used to generate the narrator\u2019s voice and Amazon Transcribe creates the synchronized on-screen captions.<\/p>\n

You can get an idea of what they\u2019re like in the below video shared by Yelp. The vertical video blends together videos and images with an AI-generated voiceover and AI-generated captions to talk about things like the restaurant\u2019s food, cocktails, and ambiance.<\/p>\n

Yelp wants to make \u201cas many videos as possible,\u201d Yelp CPO Craig Saldanha tells The Verge<\/em>, but will only make them if a restaurant has enough reviews, photos, and videos to tell a compelling story. Yelp relies on personalized signals to determine when to actually show the videos to you. The videos themselves are not personalized, even though they are eventually refreshed \u2014 there is only one active AI-stitched video about a single business live at a time, according to Saldanha. If a user or a business feels that an AI-stitched video is inaccurate or offensive, Saldanha says they can report it by tapping the three dots in the top right corner of the video. Yelp does periodic audits \u201cat scale\u201d as well.<\/p>\n

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The AI-stitched videos follow other AI-focused features from Yelp, like review summaries<\/a> and review filters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Update, July 30th<\/strong>: Clarified that business operators can\u2019t currently preview the videos and aren\u2019t notified about them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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