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), complaining women for not going for certain kinds of men.
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
theres some that are even more bizarre, like certain animals in distress with some kind of unnatural wound, you see all these wierd critters come out of it for no reason.
I have missed this trend and I am hoping to never be caught by it. Even cartoon animals in distress fucks with me and I can’t imagine me sticking around long enough on a video to analyze it closely enough to see if it was AI slop or not. I can 100% guarantee I will get random flashes of it for several days if not longer after catching a glimpse of it though.
It’s another way to burden the technologically unsophisticated with more garbage. In the 90s it was bloatware on your emachine. In the 2000s it was charging people to rent their modems and routers. In the teens it was phones that came prebloated with shitware.
Now it’s this garbage. It’s a kind of tax on people unable or unwilling to fix it themselves, hell, half of them don’t even know there’s a problem.
Who is watching this slop? Kids?
8-12 age range, just the right time to induce lasting brain rot.
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!
My mind has been AI blown!…
If I could get blown by AI, I would probably be more in favour of it
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.
youtube was in trouble the moment they announced election denial has free reign on the platform, this allow so many right wing bots, propaganda to test the waters, and then increase the current trend of right wings stuff, like anti-trans, anti-woke, pro trump, toxic masculinity.
It’s all about those next quarter results
I legitimately want a setting on YouTube to block/remove AI content for my account, especially anything with an AI voice over. It’s all fucking trash. Normally a company would want to introduce features that are desirable to customers, but it won’t happen this time. Billionaires are all in on AI, and they don’t want to lose money if/when it flops, so I’m sure they’ll be no way for people to prevent AI being shoved down their throat
Are AI videos still a series of ripple animated stills?
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.
like the ones created using googles VEO AI program, or whatevers thats called to create realistic"interviews of past cultures"
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.
- Video essays
- Podcasts
- Stand-up comics
- Sketch comics
- Home improvement
- Queer slice of life stuff
There is definitely content on there that I value still
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.
Don’t know why you’d get a downvote for personal preference. I would argue that a lot of the content I watch doesn’t have a suitable book form, so even if I did prefer that method of osmosis, I’d be out of luck.
Got a recommendation for a book (or audiobook) for a nerd like me? I’d describe myself but the internet already knows too much so… Conservation and technology (new or ancient)
Is that a fair ask?
You don’t get the animations and other visual aids to understanding like that.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vfbVVkwdQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0
In my experience, you have to be incredibly selective with what you watch. The entirety of what I watch on there is makerspace type crafts, misc educational content, and the occasional video game, with ideally the least emotional commentary possible.
You might be ahead of the curve. I still consume Youtube a lot but my experience is getting worse each and every month. It’s a consistent downward spiral. It’s just a matter of time until I realize “Oh, I haven’t watched Youtube in weeks!” That’s when I know. The people who make decisions at Youtube clearly do not even use their own website or app and there is no way to give feedback either. When they realize how bad it’s gotten it will be too late to course correct. You can’t win users back after they sobered up from your addictive dopamine machine because they stopped coming and the only traffic on your servers are bots.
The people who make decisions at Youtube clearly do not even use their own website or app and there is no way to give feedback either.
Ed Zitron, famously verbose web blog guy, wrote a post about how he thinks most of these big businesses are run by idiots that are out of touch with both the product and the users.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
It’s simple: they neither know nor care what the customer wants, barely know how their businesses function, barely know what their products do, and barely understand what their workers are doing, meaning that generative AI feels magical, because it does an impression of somebody doing a job, which is an accurate way of describing how most executives and middle managers operate.
