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.
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.
nah i dont log in, and its not my problem its this way, im not giving them my data.
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.
My algorithm knows better. It knows I won’t hesitate to delete my history and fuck up its metrics.
I have been using YouTube on the same account for like 15 years and I have never deleted my watch history :o
Honestly I wish I hadn’t done it the first time. I didn’t think it actually would affect the algorithm, and it screwed things up for a bit. It really did help when I stopped watching chud crap though.
Anyone interested in history better start collecting actual tangible history books before they’re all destroyed, and read & learn from those books, before TPTB use computers & internet & ai to rewrite past history to change & omit past historical events for their own nefarious purposes.
LibGen will always be with us.
I’m not trying to be contrarian or defeatist here, but would it really be useful if basically everyone else “knows” the official story?
I can 100% see why it would be important to fight for and preserve, but on the individual scale it looks like a steady train to being that weird guy who [hates our country / is a terrorist / believes our people have ever been baddies / etc]
… Yes?
Public knowledge drives public opinion and decision making.
A lack of knowledge of history makes us more likely to repeat history. Rewriting of history is usually a tactic that prevents mistakes of the past from being taught or learned, often for a direct benefit to an entity.
Try older videos or a different website
Nebula is a pretty good source for History vids.
Thanks I’ll check it out
I’m using https://aisloplist.com/ on Firefox and chrome. Seems to work well, not sure why it’s not used by more people.
It’s a community project / extension for identifying and blocking AI channels on YouTube.
Edit: another commenter in this thread mentioned an Android app YouTube Morphe which uses the same index. I don’t know how to link to their comment.
I’ve been looking for something like this. I just want an AI filter on youtube. They already label videos “ai”
Need this mobile too
Yes. Not sure why it’s desktop only.
What’s been helpful recently is having a different native language than English. Coupled with the no translation extension that prevents YouTube’s AI from dubbing stuff I already understand, I sometimes get interesting and specific recommendations.
Otherwise, stick to known channels.
EDIT: The downside of speaking multiple languages with YouTube’s AI push is that it’s gonna try to translate everything to you as if you were monolingual. Set YouTube in English and it will translate everything in English, even if you speak French or German. Set YouTube In French and it will translate everything in French even if you can speak English. This shit is horrible.
Yeah, Same here honestly
I found a really cool video I think comparing the pacific rim robots. Only got 2-3 minutes in because the AI voice over threw me off.
Checked out the channel and they made a kinda face reveal saying thank you for the views, with their actual voice. Even with their accent, I would have much preferred the human accented voice, verses the “perfect” computer voice
“verses” is poetry. You wanted “versus”, aka “vs”.
Technically, verse isn’t synonymous with poetry, and a section of a poem is more properly a stanza. So if we’re going to be pedantic about typos, we should at least be pedantic correctly.
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
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!
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.
There’s a difference between this and old fashioned stupid. Stupid people still have thoughts, and those thoughts are their own. Even if they’re stupid.
Stupid people still have opinions. They didn’t get them from me, and if they rid they’ve been distorted beyond recognition.
Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
Most of the content I watch is stuff that’s less likely to be ai generated I think
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.
I recommend historiacivilis.com
Good call, I enjoyed their videos on the English Civil War.
So some tricks and tips to ensure YouTube learns what videos you really want:
- Turn off autoplay, don’t let it go down an algorithmic rabbit hole only allow it to see what you really want and click on
- Turn off the hover play on PC, this is annoying mouse over counts as watching they will be in your history despite no audio and you just had the mouse over it… Again gives all sorts of slop in your history
- Subscribe to channels you like, yes YouTube will quickly learn if you binge a specific channel you like the creator and put it on your home feed, but if the home feed is a bit too much slop you want to be able to just look at your subs
- When you find that AI slop video and more from the same creator exists in your feed use the do not recommend this channel feature
- there is also a do not recommend video good for some evil click bait titles that Google tries to show you for weeks and still not interested
- the last two if it’s persistent use the tell more/tell why
It’s a long list but it’s really 90% is the first two so your views are deliberate, sticking to subs is not a bad idea if the algorithm is particularly frustrating at the moment as it will also help limit the random walk. What anoys me the most is the first two are not account settings rather cookies so every new device I need to tell YouTube how to behave.