At Christmas the topic of what videos we watch came up and I was shocked to hear over half the people there mention watching AI videos. Its insane, these are decent intelligent people watching shit like that stupid weightlifting cat and bigfoot vlogging. It seemed mostly because they couldn’t get rid of YouTube shorts but still. The family members who used Instagram had it way worse they only consumed reels slop and didnt watch any long form video. It was really are “we are so cooked moment”.
Would be nice if youtube made it easier to block channels.
When new channels show up on my recommendations I like to check out how old the channels are, especially if the quality is low or the voice is a clear or probably robot. AI channels don’t tend to be very old, and they tend to have insanely high upload speeds. Cranking out hour-long, edited, topical (not gameplay for example) videos every single day is hard as hell and nobody can do it without building up to it with editors and maybe script writers.
For example, Simon Whistler is the most prolific video creator I can think of and he’s got a crew to do it full time, but he’s been at it for ages and he’s there in all the videos.
I hate it that channels that never before had face cams are increasingly having to use them or otherwise change things because it’s the easiest way (for now) to prove they’re actual humans. But that’s the hell we’ve been dragged into.
Just watched a “Feynman” video on Youtube I thought was a little off. Especially when one of the examples simply seemed outright wrong.
But I thought it was probably me who misunderstood something. Until I read the description, and it turned out his voice was recreated by AI, and the “lecture” was designed by an unknown person to be in the “spirit” of Feynman!It had Feynman’s name all over it, and then in the description they end it with:
No impersonation is intended
When they had his name all over it, and the title claims it’s a lecture by Feynman which it absolutely wasn’t, and they use AI to simulate his voice!! How is that not impersonating? That shit should be outright illegal, it is fraud, Feynman had nothing to do with the content, and it even had mistakes!
Unfortunately on Youtube I can’t find a way to block a channel after having seen the video. That option seems to only be available on my start page for the suggested videos on that page.
I have blocked hundreds of AI crap channels, and they keep popping up.I just saw one of these too. RIP YouTube.
Just stop watching Youtube entirely except for channels you specifically want. The entire thing is a slop platform.
google/youtube likes to produce slop, since thier whole business now is including AI into everything.
And make sure to block ads when viewing it
I wish Youtube operated like a PiHole where you could upload a list of channels and block them all in one fell swoop.
This happened to me with Alan Watts, but I’ve heard so much of his content that I knew it was fake within a couple of minutes. It’s such a problem that legitimate fans of his are now mostly posting with titles that include ‘real’ ‘authentic’ or ‘no ai’ in order to stand out from the mountains of BS.
I tried watching what was supposed to be a video comparing several linux distros. Instead, it was AI text to speech narrating over random images. Are people uploading this crap in an attempt to get a share of ad revenue, or just to be awful? I have to hope Youtube doesn’t let this be fully automated, so people are doing this on purpose…
theres alot of that with mcu/dcaeu type videos, its so obvious when they mis-pronounce names too.
It was already fully automated years ago, with the bullshit oriented at small kids. It was multibillion endeavour even then, YouTube did nothing to it, why would they, it’s their dream business model. The one now, when bots generate slop that is watched by other bots, is just a continuation of that
YouTube did nothing to it, why would they, it’s their dream business model.
They could still cut the crap without change in revenue. People would just click on other videos and ads, instead of AI Slop.
They are a monopoly. They don’t care and they don’t have any financial incentives to care. Making good platform that people want to use is hard, making it a monopoly and populate it with slop that other bots are clicking through way easier, and brings basically the same results. People who don’t want to click on slop will continue to do so, but now they’re spending more time looking for it, which is even better for ad revenue. What else are they gonna do, watch Vimeo? Go outside? Don’t be ridiculous.
Slop videos have clogged the recommendations on youtube since well before the AI era. Top 10 clickbait videos with text to speech narration…
Don’t see the slop because I only use subscriptions feed.
To expand on this, I have witnessed small, indie channels have their content copied, processed through AI so it is stripped of audio, watermarks and re-edited. Then it is posted as a new video. When it is reported as a fake, or pirated copy, or not original content, Google then puts the burden of proof on the small indie channel that originally created the content, often requiring them to lawyer up and file a legal complaint, before they will take any action to remove the AI slop. It is fucking absurd. It would only take a real person about 60 seconds to compare the content and dates to determine who is the theif.
The other 70% are non-AI brainrot videos. 1% has any value.
This. AI just boosted it, it was always like that
And yet I don’t see any of that. Lots of people complain about “the algorithm” but it seems to be working well for me.
Same. I had an issue with AI videos at some point, but some dislikes later I don’t see them anymore.
You need an account for an algorithm, which I dont use with youtube. My algorithm has been blocking channels.
And when it comes to search results youtube isn’t great usually defaulting to showing the highest subscriber videos over what might be more relevant and pushing down smaller channels.
My algorithm is as simple as avoiding YouTube altogether and finding what I need elsewhere (preferably in text form).
The worst thing I’ve found with the algorithm is that it continually tries to steer me towards right-wing crap like Jordan Petersen and various manosphere posers, even though I watch a lot of LGBTQ+ and Marxist channels. And if ever you come to YouTube with no account on a clean machine on a new IP address, it pushes almost entirely right-wing propaganda videos.
Holy shit, yes. You can watch leftist content for years, but heaven forbid you watch one gaming-related video and it assumes you’re an alt-right racist gamergate incel.
its either that or, thirst trap videos. i dont log in, so i just close the browser and reopen youtube and its gone.
I noticed that they show up in the next section of video game related videos before I blocked those type of channels. It is interesting that video game clips tend to result in those type of podcasters showing up in those feeds, which is likely due to the strategy used by those groups using games to try to reach that demographic.
You see a lot of ai videos of prominent personalities, seriously doubt they have permission to use their identity.
We spend more energy to create more videos and use more storage
Are brainrot videos the ones where someone on an impossibly clean set hides the 5 seconds of info you were promised somewhere in a 20 minute video the purports to explain the process you need and it end up no longer matching the software’s UI?
Asking for a friend ;-)
