All my Youtube feeds are filling up with AI videos made within the past month or two. It’s just an endless stream of newly created content made by people who are just chasing after just a little bit of attention. It’s all just rehashed crap, remade videos scraped from previous videos, remixed and remade again and again.
It wasn’t so noticeable a year ago but now it’s getting worse. It’s just an endless stream of new AI videos and there is more and more every day.
A year ago, it was decently made AI video with a bit of realistic content … now it’s just all made up crap of all sorts filled with all kinds of made up information to sound as authentic as possible. It’s so easy to just scrape together a bunch of content, send it all through an AI and make it sound like some sort of authentic documentary that would fool the least attentive viewer.
It’s mind boggling that Google is letting this happen.
Even if I pretend to be a stone cold Google accountant, and look at this… YouTube is a gigantic golden goose. It’s strategic, it’s a cultural lynchpin. And they’re going to let it wither just to boost next quarter and avoid saying “AI is a problem here”?
Ditch YouTube maybe? It was nice when it wasn’t shit but now it’s what it is. Start to unfollow and Unsubscribe and do something else with your time.
If your feed is filling up with those, then it’s because your watching them. So the algorithm is giving you more. Is like my recent swath of woodworking videos. I’m watching lots of them, so I’m getting recommended more.
Problem is that AI didn’t present as a “genre” and you get AI slop across the gamut.
I started a video because the title seemed like something I was interested in and the thumbnail seemed fine. Then within the first few seconds it was obviously lazy ai slop.
Short of limiting yourself to known acceptable channels. You can’t really stave off the AI slop. Some categories get hit less often, but they are all over the place.
now it’s just all made up crap of all sorts filled with all kinds of made up information to sound as authentic as possible.
NOW? YouTube has always been made up crap off all sorts with all kinds of made up information.
Nothing has changed.
Sure a lot of the AI videos look like shit, YouTube videos have always been shitty. In some cases that is their charm.
wasn’t so noticeable a year ago
A year ago, YouTube didnt have its own AI video creator. Now it does.
There are uBlock/Adguard filters which you can use to block shit. My homepage is just a blank. On Android revanced has that option to hide shit as well. Or you can use Newpipe.
Link? Or rather… what ubo filters are they?
Yes, but, there are so many creators literally just talking in their cars, it’t not hard to find people who are authentic.
You should use your subscribed feed. Also, newpipe
I always skip the recommendations or pushed content … I spend my time looking for things I actually want to watch … and more often than not, it’s content that is over two or three years old.
and more often than not, it’s content that is over two or three years old.
Bingo.
Friend, content that’s over a year old is all you can trust. There’s a lot of it, and its great.
The date filter is the slop filter.
Switched to newpipe after getting fooled by an AI nature documentary. I felt like such a dumbass.
Well, pre AI it also wasn’t that cool. I will never forgive BBC making me believe in flying penguins.
I trusted you BBC and you made me look like a fool!
This was my character changing moment. I broke bad, never able to trust anyone. All because of BBC flying penguins.
Haahaha 😂 Did part of you want it to be real? Part of me wanted the “nature documentary” to be real. It was about a lioness at a zoo adopting a bobcat kitten that had escaped into her enclosure from the neighboring one. I cried.
The other day I accidentally looked at YouTube without adblock, without history off, and it was a nightmare. Just AI slop and rage bait. Absolute trash.
I pretty much only use YouTube for music and very specific clips. It’s a bad place.
[mode="snob] read more books. [/mode]
going to the garbage and remixing everything so it’s shiny and new.
You can’t polish a turd.
Yes you can. You can polish it, paint it, cover it in glitter, name it “Duke of York”, whatever. But it will always just bel a turd
Polished, painted, glittered “Duke of York” turd has 1.5 million followers and 6 million views
Yes of course. As opposed to the crab-people, the mole-people and even the lizard people, turd-people have very succesfully invaded our midst. These days there are just as many, if not more, turd-people than actual people. This isn’t just a conspiracy, the numbers back it up.
It doesn’t mean that people always try
I avoid this by having no YouTube feeds.
