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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
When you play either of these videos itβs just a AI voice talking over someone just clicking around. The scripts are also so similar.
The internet is dying.
It doesn't matter what topic you search... that's all YouTube recommendations are anymore.
YouTube is still decent if you can ignore their recommendations. I use other apps (Pipepipe, Grayjay) and my feed is just the creators I want. No ads, no slop, no nonsense. It's like YouTube was 20 years ago.
Yep I use that too,back to the good old days! Internet was so good then.
Ublock huge blocklist, private DNS, and VPN are essential to me using the internet today.
Hard to believe not everyone on the internet does this. Its like they enjoy slop. Then again people still use x so..there's not really hope for humanity lol
At that point why not just use something like nebula?
i hate how i cant tell its AI
I was ~6min into the first video when I thought Hey is this AI? went back and saw yea fuck all of these are AI -_-
It's annoying because there are legit content creators like https://www.youtube.com/@LogicallyAnswered
Who aren't AI but they look and feel like AI so people accuse them of being AI
Yeah the voice i could tell it was AI.
the thumbnail i couldnt.
I was listening to some Warren Buffett and Richard Feynman videos and it turns out they were AI. I was like, oh I hadn't heard this lecture before ...
I really hate it. There's a rage bait one that I tried to report that claimed these influencers would climb Everest and die because they were too busy taking selfies and stuff. Like full on 20 minute episodes. People were saying how there's no record of any of these people in the comments and it annoys me.
I'm going to only watch videos where I can see the person now but I've seen videos of people using a damned good AI filter on top. An Indian guy put on a blonde white girl overlay and it was really good.
If AI was so smart they would use a girl with ponytails and high socks in linux videos
I always access youtube through GrayJay, PipePipe or FreeTube, and rarely see these random AI slop recommendations.
Which of these 3 do you recommend?
My experience has been that Grayjay has better features, Pipepipe mobile app is a bit faster with more reliable playback.
PipePipe is the only way I watch YouTube on android
I like grayjay. Works for more than just YouTube and has sponsorblock built in
Youtube isn't really feeling it recently, isn't it? For any topic the recommenrdation system is skewed. I used to find lectures recorded from the likes MIT and other institution in the recommended, now there's fully AI generated videos. Once you get in the AI pipeline getting out of it is ridicoulusly hard. As for your little OS related question, i always read the documentation before making choices. Seeing the way it works should give you more than enough.
YouTube is like Imgur, it's a media dump. Most of it is trash. If you're going directly to YouTube.com or from any place other than community link recommendations or to your known curated channels; then it is no surprise that you come across shit 90% of the time.
The fact that their search function fails to find relevant guides or tutorials is a real loss, but they've opted to enshittify.
An advertisement company built off the work of a search engine can't get search right on arguably their biggest app. Baffling.
Their search has been shit for a long time. It has helped other search engines though. My brothers resisted leaving Google because they found the search quality was best. Now it's shit enough for them to consider that DDG does just as good a job.
Allowing their search and video platform to get flooded by AI is insane, but they're fully committed because they're chasing their own AI agenda so they can't really stand against AI. Amazon has done the same by allowing their platform to be flooded with cheap, useless, generic products and fake reviews. The real baffling thing is why people still keep using (and even worshipping) these asshole companies.
You have a misunderstanding of what "get search right" means. For Google's profits, the search is exactly the way they want it to be. They don't give a shit whether it's actually useful to you or not.
Shoutout to blocktube: https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube
Usually, the same "few" slop channels dominate a specific topic, so add them to a blocklist and the filtering gets reasonably good.
It's absolutely insane that YouTube doesn't allow this as a native feature.
Honestly, seeing a stock photo guy or woman in a thumbnail nowadays screams AI-generated content. I stay away from those at all costs to prevent YouTube deciding to recommend me more
I mean, a lot of the real YouTubers don't look much different from a stock photo...
There are plenty of quality channels out there. Maybe it takes a bit longer to find them but it's possible.
Any you can recommend to help me with my comparison?
"ITSFOSS" is nice for beginners to Linux
Explaining Computers and The Linux Experiment are among my favourites.
I was going to recomend Explaining Computers. Been watching him for years. Also, for more linux stuff, @LearnLinuxTV is another good channel.
Subscribed thanks
TheBlackDon, laustoic, breadonpenguins, or if you REALLY want a good breakdown between distros I highly recommend SuperUser Tech. He pretty much goes through a lot of distros from the perspective of someone new to Linux and his videos are very thorough.
TonyBTW is great when you're looking to setup whatever distro you pick. he's pretty much done them all. Veronica Explains is also good for other various Linux stuff and setups. and if you ever go down the path of NixOS then Vimjoyer is a must subscribe to learn that distro.
I'll check it out thanks
I want to believe that using invidious-based frontends tend to circumvent the perfidious google method to position first those that pay for positioning.
There are ublock lists which block lots of ai content from loading,maybe look into that
Soon we'll need uAllow, only open what is on safe lists
That's pretty much NoScript or uBlock's "hard mode."
I prefer "medium mode", but ublock hides it behind a few somewhat cryptic steps:
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode
don't think there's any public list of AI slop youtube channels, or that kinda crowd sourced youtube channel blocklist system. the ublock lists usually block a specific website.
You're right, I looked into a few lists and they were mostly for domains and search results.
I only mentioned it because I remembered seeing them, but didn't look at them more closely until now.
YouTube going down the crapper at record pace.
Imho, the rolling VS point release, desktop environement and X11/Wayland has much more impact than "the distro" choice
Stick with a more popular and try different desktop environnements
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