I don’t know what y’all are doing wrong but I never see AI on youtube. Starting with organic creators is the right way to go. Perhaps people who are experiencing this are browsing whilst not logged in? Algorithms have their downsides but mine knows I wouldn’t want that
Me neither and I’m not logged in.
Dude my coworker keeps sending me AI astrophysics videos because we have arguments about “new discoveries” not being real. It’s going to make people dumb as hell. Tbf he already is
Its like they’re not even people anymore.
Idk about that, but certainly there is a very strong correlation between people like this and those who feel like they need to consult chatgpt or grok to filter out basic facts. Their willingness to give up their own thoughts and opinions bodes poorly for the future, especially of democracy.
give up their own thoughts and opinions, freely
But also
saying ‘its like they’re not people anymore’ is a bit much’
It’s valid critique, but I don’t like the precedence of being stupid also taking away your humanity. Education can fail us in deliberate ways from the top sometimes, I wouldn’t say folks with a bad education aren’t human. Even for folks who lean out of otherwise good education, or who don’t hone their critical thinking skills, I judge them as humans who suck. Being in the middle of a fascist regime and with mainstream news dehumanizing minorities, I think language around humanity is important.
The easiest way to get out of an argument with me is to send me a YouTube video. It has always been the worst source of information about everything, even worse than early Wikipedia. I will not watch your YouTube video.
And it’s slow as hell. They always think their point is both complicated and interesting. Text remains the best medium for communication.
Sorta depends for me. If I can connect the YouTuber back to something valid like an event where science is held in high esteem or collabs with people I do trust I’ll give it a shot. Basically every single time this is not the case, and in his case it’s literally never the case. Dude searches for his batshit view, clicks the first video without watching it, then sends it like I’m supposed to filter it for him. He’d believe in aliens if the video had 1 million views. He kinda does anyways since the why files is his favorite channel and it’s barely researched (by AI) slop, where whatever his agent can’t disprove becomes a “mystery”
One of the examples that comes to mind is the Navy UAP videos, where he looked at what was clearly a bird, wing flaps and all, locked on to by a fighter jet and said “that’s a craft and WOAH it disappeared (when the pilot lost autotarget)” as well as, “a fighter pilot on Fox said it’s a vehicle of some sort and he’s a lot smarter than you.” And got indignant and walked off when I said, “smarter and paid or a lot dumber than me, either way he’s wrong.”
I brought up the dumbass sheriff chasing Jupiter on a winding road too and he felt it wasn’t Jupiter because the sheriff was an expert witness for some reason. Dude’s cooked
Ai voice or is just text to voice? Some people are adverse to having their voice online like that, but still want to participate in things.
Seemingly AI voice. There’s a really good Kyle Hill video about them.
That was supposed to be to OP, but thanks!
as long as the actual content is human created, a tts voice isn’t that bad. some content creators are just not comfortable/confident enough to do the narration themselves
There’s a great quote “… the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” from Marcus Aurelius. With this in mind I’ve been regretting the kind of person YouTube has been dying my soul with.
I’ve unironically returned to books and writing/reviewing in notebooks to fill in the gaps of my time. You can get notebooks that fit in your pocket and can just pluck it out and review whatever ideas you’ve been chewing on lately instead starting up a video. I add to the notebooks as I read.
When I have more time in the evenings I can collate those notes into broader writing projects, which are mostly simple blog posts. This process has brought me a fantastic feeling of clarity.
As someone who wants to ditch YouTube this is helpful to me. Thanks.
I really struggle to find a good alternative use of my time. It hasn’t always been like this. A humbling experience.
There’s always Extra History! https://youtube.com/@extrahistory
years and years of back catalog to catch up on if you’re looking to kill several dozen hours
They maintain playlists to organize the back catalog which is an easy way to enjoy them.
I will never watch any of that slop. I’d rather stare at the fucking ceiling.
YouTube Morphe for Android has an option to filter out AI videos (along with ads and sponsored segments too, of course).
How does it know?
I imagine previous viewers vote on it to let others know.
https://github.com/Override92/AiSList/blob/main/AiSList/aislist_blocklist.txt
Looks like this is their source.
I could see that working well, considering how good things like sponsor block are
i only watch history videos that either 3+ years old or from a youtuber i have some basic level of trust
I don’t know if I’m using YouTube the right or the wrong way, but no, not seeing or watching any AI content. I watch like 5-7 channels, I only use the “subscriptions” page. I might watch a recommended video, but those are usually the old videos from the channels I have subscribed to. I have uBlock and another extension that blocks shorts. Maybe it is a shitfest, but I’m not witnessing it. There are plenty of decision we all make.
Unhook should provide more personal control of experiences within Youtube. If I must watch something controversial like discussions about opposition to AI, I use Freetube so that I don’t get bombarded with unnecessary suggestions.
That Unhook sounded interesting, so I turned off my current YouTube add-on (“Hide shorts for Youtube™”) and uhhh, the Unhook literally did nothing but arranged some things around lol. Not for me, the shorts and all were still there. But cool idea I guess.
all the shorts are mostly AI, some are just reposted from tiktok. and alot of wierd animal videos are AI generated.
You have a poor choice in content because my feeds are very human, often long form and friction heavy.
Fwiw you can report undisclosed AI videos now but removing the view from your watch history is prob also a good idea
A related issue there is the question of what counts as AI. We all have different expectations about that. What you and I might say is AI. Well, Google might disagree with that because it’s a definitional question and there are competing definitions.
I’ve been enjoying History of Everything (Podcast) with Stakuyi for a bit now, definitely recommend.
This was never an issue for me. I almost exclusively use the “home” (I guess that’s “recommend”) part of the youtube app and very rarely get AI videos in any form (voice, images etc.). The few times it’s happened I do I just tap the three buttons and select “don’t recommend channel”. About 80% of videos shown are from channels I watch regularly and the rest are a random mix of interest relevant things with a few completely random ones here and there. Not once has it been any AI heavy anything.
Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
where does one learn such power? I’m daily blocking the entire recommendation section to not getting nuts
Turn off history when signed in maybe? Turning it off seems to work for me. Most of my recommendations on the side when signed in are from channels I have already subscribed to, while I typically avoid clicking on channels and videos that have clickbait-y thumbnails or titles.
I’ve got search history off, watch history on. When I watch something that I don’t want to see more of popping up in my recommendations, I immediately remove it from history after. The resulting watch history plus a small number of core subscriptions results in quite useable recommendations for me.
Most of the content I watch is stuff that’s less likely to be ai generated I think
The algorithms have always been evil. youtube is best as entertainment by your own hand picked curated creators.
