Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube
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Sometimes I forget people watch YouTube on purpose. Other than music videos and the rare "how do I do this thing in this game?" I just don't use it
I feel like an alien sometimes. Reading books like some sort of lost time traveler.
I maintain my YT subscriptions and history quite meticulously. Anything I didn't like will be immediately removed from history. Stuff I regularly watch is subscribed to
I get exactly 0 weird AI or right wing stuff suggested to me
Downside is, you have to keep up quite a good view history hygiene
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I instantly skip anything AI that attempts legitimacy. I’m irritated at the attempt to grab my attention with complete fakery.
I do occasionally watch some of the disturbing fever-dream clips simply because they are hallucinatory and seem to flow the way a human mind might grasp facets of something and amplify or distort the flow.
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I am convinced Youtube and many other platforms are dying right now because instead of protecting their assets, they double down on AI slop that nobody cares about. Of course traffic will keep increasing first but that's mostly from bot accounts spamming garbage and not actual users consuming content and ads. Server cost will explode while ad revenue will shrink. The corporations behind it have vast resources and will take down the Internet with them but their end is slowly approaching.
It's all about those next quarter results
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Are AI videos still a series of ripple animated stills?
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I dare say books still exist
The time it takes to publish a book vs a YouTube video completely changes the kinds of things you'll be able to learn about. Books won't tell you about current events, discoveries or the latest technology news.
How many books have been published about how AI is affecting society? I'm assuming there's a few given it's been years already since ChatGPT 3.5 was released
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Don’t hold out on us, what channels do you watch? I have a growing list of feeds I check
Here's my subscriptions, though they don't make the entirety of what I watch:
Educational
- Atomic Frontier
- Captain Disillusion
- DSA (My city's local chapter's youtube)
- Kurzgesagt
- Philosophy Tube
- Scott Manely
- Technology Connections
Educational Adjacent
- Jim Browning
- Primitive Technology
- Sam O'Nella Academy
Hobby Projects
- Code bullet
- Colinfurze
- Project KegRocket
- Stuff Made Here
- The Bibites: Digital Life
- Tom Stanton
- Works By Design
- Zach Freedman
Gaming
- Doshdoshington
- EthosLab
- Grian
- Hazardish
- Matt Lowne
- Michael Hendriks
- Project Incursus Gaming
- Starship EVO
- Stratzenblitz75
Art
- Felix Colgrave
- The Sixth Door
- Worthikids
Misc
- Atomic Shrimp
- Brick Experiment Channel
- Hbomberguy
- Lyle Forever
- Two Gay Grandpas Travel
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The time it takes to publish a book vs a YouTube video completely changes the kinds of things you'll be able to learn about. Books won't tell you about current events, discoveries or the latest technology news.
How many books have been published about how AI is affecting society? I'm assuming there's a few given it's been years already since ChatGPT 3.5 was released
Yeah, but YouTube isn't as credible. And if it was, I'd still rather read something than spend twice as long watching half the information. Tastes differ
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the more pressing thing is the AI propaganda thats being posted as well, all those anti-woke videos with cut scenes, plus the "pro-hypermasculinity/toxic masculinity shorts too).
plus there are ton of those bizarre animals in distress videos as well, its strange asf.
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But AI similar to but legally distinct from Seinfeld got banned.
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This is only me describing my personal taste, but:
Almost all video essays and podcasts I would rather just read. It takes half the time. Include pictures, diagrams, and animations if needed. But I can read much faster and retain much better reading than listening to someone talk. Listening at double speed is faster, but can be uncomfortable.
I can imagine some value in some other niches, like you're saying, but the amount of slop and trash out there is too high for me, and the companies selling it are the worst.
Every time I see some parasocial YouTuber making That Face I just get irritated.
Almost all video essays and podcasts I would rather just read.
I don't think any of the following videos work as reading.
All of them are made from the start as videos (the last one is quite meta in that regard) and if you want to have them as text then you'd need to restructure them from the scratch.
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To me YouTube is an untrustworthy platform owned by one of the worse mega corps. But also I just don't enjoy video as a medium
There can still be good content on there tbf?
I don't use it with the offical client and don't have an account but I do enjoy watching some channels like Usagi Electric, Cathode Ray Dude or EEVBlog (who is also on Odysee btw)
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the more pressing thing is the AI propaganda thats being posted as well, all those anti-woke videos with cut scenes, plus the "pro-hypermasculinity/toxic masculinity shorts too).
plus there are ton of those bizarre animals in distress videos as well, its strange asf.
I don't have facebook or anything like that, so i don't really see a lot of this slop. One day i thought: so okay, there is more social medias out there than facebook, twitter instagram or whatever, they are just not well known. I downloaded one, and looked at what people post there. The amount of AI slop was unbearable. They weren't boomers, but post the most obvious AI shit of like a kid in the desert of some african country making a horse out of coke can. The caption is then something inspiring like: you don't need money to make art or whatever. This shit is only getting worse
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Yes and old people. I work with a guy who is 66 years old and I’ve seen him on multiple occasions watching YT videos of girls dancing that is AI.
You were watching an AI video of him watching YT videos of girls dancing? Talk about AI-ception!
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They started to auto translate comments based on your one(!) language setting, completely destroying nuance in the process. Oh, you're multilingual? TOO BAD! A lot of the translations don't even make sense. It's just word salad a lot of the time and they don't even give you an option to see the original comment, title or video description! And of course there is no way to give Youtube feedback about it. They're cooked. Their service is shit and the platform is suffocating from slop in more ways than I ever imagined. Like, I knew it would be bad but you even get bombarded with it when users aren't even involved.
Yeah, I don't think YouTube believes I can speak both English and polish, because it translates titles into polish and completely ruins them, I've seen some that are so nonsensical I had to open the video in a browser (on my phone) to see what it means
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You were watching an AI video of him watching YT videos of girls dancing? Talk about AI-ception!
My mind has been AI blown!…
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