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YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use (gizmodo.com)
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[+] -14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hes supposed to be a credible source, hes an educator, hes the modern day Bill Nye.

There are no credible sources on YouTube. He's just a guy with a computer and a camera. Youtube is about selling you stuff, people need to accept that.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The beauty of YouTube is that the goals of the company are not necessarily the goals of the content creators.

    I'll take any chance I can get to shout out Nick Zentner. Hes a professor of Geology at Central Washington University and he has been posting full length lectures on YouTube for more than 15 years. He is a comprehensive expert in his field and regularly features experts in related fields to help discuss whatever topic he is on at the time.

    I used to use his videos to fall asleep, but I have developed a genuine love of geology and vulcanology that I wouldn't have known about otherwise.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago

    You can find some older, rare exceptions, but it is impossible to maintain integrity and fulfill the YouTube algorithms. People think YouTube content is credible because YouTube algorithms give you what you want to hear.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Great starting point for wasting time maybe.

    Let me waste 5 minutes reading slop than another 20 min tying to figure out if its a hallucination or just not accurate. 25 minutes that could have been reading a credible accurate source...

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    In the scenario, what pointed you towards said credible accurate source? Google?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Not op, but a search engine is a better starting point than an LLM, because it is a predictable tool, fetching internet resources which can be evaluated on their merits.

    The AI presents itself as the actual information.

    I see too many people in my daily life saying "the ai summary said..." and it is worse than useless.

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