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Damn. I read the headline, and I almost thought it was a "Report AI Slop" button. What a feature that would be!
Was still thinking that until I read this comment. Tiktok is unwatchable (I mean more than before even) because of this. Luckily longer videos are still hard to produce with AI
Why would anyone want to watch AI generated content? What's the point? I get using AI generation as a tool but if there's no human intention behind it, just a pure algorithm, why even bother?
Sometimes I'll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching
This was me once a month but now it's a few times a day.
Really? I very rarely come across it, and I use YouTube a lot. But when I do come across it I select "don't recommend channel again" and dislike the video.
You already clicked. It doesn't matter anymore.
Watch time is pretty important on YouTube afaik, initial clocks themselves don't count for that much
I've clicked, but I have an ad-blocker, so... YouTube gained nothing from that.
But why?
Like sure some of the voices are not great but the words being said are the thing I’m interested in and not the person / machine saying the words.
Each to their own and all that, I’m just curious as to why you just stop watching something you were seemingly enjoying.
Because it's a sign to me that the content creator is willing to take shortcuts and be lazy. In which case I take the shortcut to being too lazy to watch their "content".
I like to approach things in life with positive intent, so seeing a video with an AI voice to me would make me assume that perhaps they don’t have a great voice or that they have a stammer so so an Ai voice allows them to still make content they want to.
I find that life is a lot better if you assume the best in people rather than assume the worse. And I can tell you that since I’ve taken this approach I’m a much happier person and it’s extremely rare that I give positive intent to someone with bad intentions so worth it for less stress and worrying about things all the time.
Do you think the same of channels that pay someone else to be the face of the channel or is it just Ai voices you have issue with?
If nobody bothered to make it why should anybody bother to watch it?
Signals to me that maybe the creator isn’t comfortable with their voice or maybe they can’t speak or have a stutter, but they still have something to say.
Because it signal to me that the content is low quality and untrustworthy
Signals to me that maybe the creator isn’t comfortable with their voice or maybe they can’t speak or have a stutter, but they still have something to say.
Art is people making stuff, without the people... it's just stuff.
Can still be very pretty though. I use it to set scenes and show characters for my dungeons and dragons campaign.
Unpopular opinion: the fact that said stuff matches my style / that I like it is what makes art worth anything to me. Being made by a person or a fish or a machine doesnt matter. It's the STUFF I want on my wall or the end table, not the fact that it's tacitly human crafted. Any art I can afford is made by someone who is basically a faceless deal, not someone I know personally (or else the person matters) or someone who is famous (in which the person matters). Ergo... the people don't typically matter.
Im not going to an insane restaurant to fanboy the chef, I'm going to eat the FOOD. If a machine makes it and every single dish is atomically identical, that's fine, as long as it's super tasty.
Because now there literally will be infinite content for doom scrolling addicts.
It's not like you can learn from it (even if the topic is something you'll never use like a 2 hour dissertation on heat pumps or a multi-video series on how an old pinball machine uses only relays to calculate scores).
Why yes, I am subscribed to Technology Connections, how could you tell?
I love heat pumps I love heat pumps I love heat pumps
(I agree! I do love tech connections. Although I'd argue that knowing how heat pumps work can be quite beneficial ^^ at least in my case)
I have no idea what this vibe is, but I would like to subscribe.
I've watched some mildly amusing Yeti campfire tutorials that were AI generated.
There’s an example right in the article.
Historical events portrayed realistically is one.
Which is the second most scary thing AI can do.
The first is realistic portrayal of faked current events.
Although there is nothing realistic about it all. But it satisfies the expectations of someone who doesn't know anything about history.
Delete your account.
Oh boy, a button that generates ai shorts. Combining my 2 least favorite things about YouTube.
Buttons and shorts? Yeah, I also like watching bottomless people sometimes.
"Creators led this revolution"
The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.
No-one knows chicken like chickens!
I really wish more people would get behind peertube. I also wish some awesome person/s with coding skills could create an app compatible with smartTV's (esp., android).
Don't need any coding skills for doing apps. You can do it with a single well constructed prompt (and 400 other prompts trying to fix the initial bugs and all the dozens other bugs introduced prompt after prompt)
Oh my, color me surprised /s But maybe the implementation of this will be the final straw for me, and I'll finally be able to commit to degoogling myself and delete my account and every app for good.
Oh, also the irony of a Youtube CEO talking about "a revolution" is not lost on anyone I hope. Eat the rich.
Yeah, maybe this will help me detox from my Youtube addiction.
Too bad this probably still won't drive people to other platforms.
Being a monopoly does that, yeah.
The "Unhook" addon (increasingly required for Youtube now, in my opinion) will still completely block this as it blocks all shorts. Fuck shorts anyway. Also as TechnologyConnections pointed out in a recent video, the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube's recommended brainrot anyway and allows you to subscribe to and follow the creators and topics you actually care about. Until we have a viable alternative to Youtube (and hopefully stuff like this will drive that to happen sooner rather than later) the other option is to stick to subscriptions as much as possible and only subscribe to creators that don't abuse this or use shorts at all, preferably.
It absolutely blew my mind when TechnologyConnections shared the % of users who use the subscription page to get to their videos...
The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.
YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.
the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway
Though they are messing with that too, on mobile there is a "Most Relevant" section on top. Though thankfully they are videos from your subs.
...for now.
"One slop please"
"That’s right, a one-stop shop for AI slop is incoming", brilliant sentence.
YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.
Hate slop, but I also approve of anything that makes it easier to wrest IPs away from Hollywood. Feeling conflicted and pessimistic.
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