Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
          • Nik282000 ( nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 
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            26 days ago

            I have heard that many times but have not observed it first hand, when a user posts after years of absence it shows up in my list. And when I remember a user that I have not seen in years and I check them directly there aren’t any videos that I have missed. Maybe they are doing something on a per-user basis to drive engagement.

            • sad_detective_man ( sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ) 
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              26 days ago

              What kind of channels do you sub to? Are they prone to saying things that are not censor-friendly, because that’s one of the big things that will cause it to drop them from your notifications.

              The other is when people subscribe to a channel but haven’t watched recent releases while logged into your account. Youtube sees that as “well you’re subscribed to them, but like do you REALLY watch them?”

              • Nik282000 ( nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 
                3·
                26 days ago

                Almost exclusively maker/hacker/science guys with some animators/artists mixed in. Checking the users with the lowest subscriber counts they have either not posted in years or I have watched their most recent uploads :/

                • sad_detective_man ( sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ) 
                  2·
                  26 days ago

                  Okay. Those are guys who I assume would know what kind of stuff not to say to avoid getting their visibility messed with. I guess this is a thing that will tend to happen more to political and history commentators. But if you watch their videos while logged out for any reason, same deal across the board.

                  Offhandedly, Is there anyone that you would recommend to me?

  • Nik282000 ( nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 
    7·
    26 days ago

    When I’m logged in I get a slop suggestion about 1 in 20 times, nearly all of them are obvious ripoffs of commercial science-tubers.

    I’ve tried browsing logged out on a PC at work and it’s at least 50% slop, with the other half being clickbait products, lists, and tiktok style crap. Like every site that has ‘user generated’ content, it’s only good when it’s curated.

      • Nik282000 ( nik282000@lemmy.ca ) 
        7·
        26 days ago

        Using ai for their b-roll, using ai for diagrams, using ai for voiceovers. Basically admitting that they are no longer willing to invest their time into a project that they expect me to watch.

      • mpdarkguy ( mpdarkguy@piefed.world ) English
        1·
        26 days ago

        Google got pretty poopy. I can salvage just a bit with an instance of searxng, but even the search results are usually generated themselves.

        Using an llm as a search engine has been a pretty positive experience for me, just gotta double check some funny looking sources.

    • FatVegan ( FatVegan@leminal.space ) 
      5·
      26 days ago

      I watch youtube quite a lot while doing chores and things like that. Or watch shows like taskmaster. My recommendations are all just things i would watch anyway. Every now and then there is a mr.veast or something that i click: do not recommend. A minth or so ago, i logged out of my youtube and got tge whole unfiltered homepage. Holy shit, that is a sight to behold. I don’t think i would use youtube at all if that was my first glance ever. It was all trump this fox news that and people doing the YouTube face unironically

  • FoxAlive ( FoxAlive@lemmy.zip ) 
    4·
    25 days ago

    Just use clients like newpipe or pipetube, etc. You only see what you subscribe to.

    Its was actually kind of depressing when I first switched, there was a level of “life” that having an algorithm felt like it brought.

    But I got used to not having it and my brain kind of leveled out. Now when I see someone else’s YouTube home page I’m disgusted.

  • melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
    3·
    26 days ago

    My wife watches cooking and food videos on youtube, and has for years. Recently I’ve been amazed at all of the AI videos that are popping up. Mostly related to nostalgia (how gramma was able to prepare chicken stew on a cold winters night for her poor family…). I can see why it would be cost effective to create these videos. I cannot get past the voices though. They really sound off, but I can’t put my finger on it. I bug her about “selling out” by watching these AI videos and her response is “How the hell am I supposed to tell which is which?!”.

    • FoxAlive ( FoxAlive@lemmy.zip ) 
      3·
      25 days ago

      Even videos with people in them are becoming ai slop. So I sympathies with her on not knowing.

      One of the artists I watch meat canyon has writers that makes scripts (on his second channel that focuses on talking about random topics) and one of them was using Ai to write the script for them.

      I still watch that person it’s not the biggest deal to me. Theres bigger fish to fry, and we are all human. Worlds not black and white. What’s a bigger deal to me is I’ll often watch history videos to fall asleep to, and its sooooo hard to find a channel that’s not just 100% ai generated from like start to finish. Including pictures. Its like history is getting rewritten from this foggy/fuzzy inaccurate lenses. Kids in the future are going to see a ai generated image of 1800’s new York where a man is using a tablet, and think its true.