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Tibees: "The Physics-Slop That YouTube Wants Me to Make" (www.youtube.com)
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A video about YouTube's push for AI content and the mass AI-video pollution on the site, from a creator's perspective

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[–] 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I was recommended videos of Richard Feynman taking about physics. They turned out to be an AI generated facsimile of his voice reading talks that he actually recorded over some AI generated still images.

Utterly fucking useless. No reason for this to exist. It adds nothing.

I avoid YouTube as much as possible, anyway. Too much crap and gen AI is just dragging it down further.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    I heard someone say that they turn off video recommendations on YouTube now with an extension, so as to not waste time and only see their subscriptions. I think it's time for me to do the same

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you put a bit of effort into curating your suggestions, they can be quite useful.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    You guys use recommendations?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I have two YouTube accounts and I use recommendations on both. I almost never see garbage on my homepages because I don't watch garbage and use the two "Don't Recommend This" buttons when I see something I don't like.

    One is just music (work computer) and every once in awhile it'll suggest AI or a genre I dislike but I'm talking like twice a month. And I use it every week day

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    This feature is actually built right into YouTube. I found that if you disable your watch history, it refuses to show you any videos on the home screen. And as an added bonus, it blocks you from the Shorts tab as well!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I've been using Newpipe for ages. It doesn't really show you recommendations, just your subscriptions and on a separate tab a list of generic new popular videos (trending stuff with millions of views). You can absolutely ignore that too. Anyway, I haven't seen AI unless I specifically search for it, which is nice.

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