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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
Go to FB where it must be around 40%
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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Patreon's also an option
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Why it wouldn't be? You ask AI, you generate with AI, you replace humans with AI an you also watch AI.\ Wait till they change news anchors with AI.
It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better. The YouTube algorithm favors low effort frequent posting, so AI slop is perfect for the platform.
Every algorithm is based around frequent posting and farming engagement. Everything is optimized to ruin the internet.
It will never get better.
Not until we make our own video hosting site - with blackjack and hookers!
I mean peertube exists, and it actually integrates into the fediverse...
In fact, let’s forget the video hosting site.
Wait that means YouTube might be dying? Im actually mildly happy with that, maybe it ruins their Monopoly and opens the web for smaller niche platforms (not sure how they would survive AI but if they don't reward low effort high freq it might be something?)
For it to die there has to be an alternative for the content. I don't see anything that could replace it at the moment.
Pornhub
Peertube comes to mind.
Peertube still needs improvements to start looking attractive.
While it is technically federated, using it still feels like it's just a bunch of small disjointed sites.
That's fair. I just hope mentioning and drawing more people to the platform helps (or provides incentive) for it to improve.and become a viable YouTube replacement. Or at least a supplement to something better than YouTube.
Rumble is getting there. If it can drop all the right wing bs it would be a decent platform. The gaming section is decent though
I use freetube to kinda help deal with it but it is still a real issue. Even something like internet browser comparison videos are filed with AI voice overs and no real human input.
I’ve stopped watching YouTube shorts because of this, and the removal of the downvote count makes it harder to tell.
Am I the only one who sticks to subscriptions? It feels like everyone is just consuming whatever the algorithm feeds them
Can't find new content just sticking to subscriptions unfortunately
And hiding the date the video is from, Youtube is getting worse.
I will never pay for youtube while the downvote count is gone. Absolute anti consumer bullshit.
I do use the add-on to bring them back, but fuck those assholes for doing this.
0 people liked the removal of the dislike button.
Why would you ever watch shorts in the first place? First thing I did when they appeared was make a ublock filter to hide them.
100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts
Considering a lot of the full YouTube videos are full of padding, taking over ten minutes to get to the point, I can understand why the shorts would have appeal.
Problem is one way or another people are being incentivized to target a specific runtime regardless of whether they have the material to fit.
I just skip those. There's almost always a better one that was easy to find.
"Stay tuned for part 2"
Manosphere fanfic everywhere.
2 years ago I went to youtube without logging into my account. The amount of right wing manosphere crap being recommended to new accounts was frightening. Within 5 minutes there was a video playing of how women should be subservient to men because their role is basically a house cleaning baby factory with no free will.
I genuinely think google should be sued the everliving shit out of them for allowing this crap to be pushed. They looked at what facebook did and went "Oh, that's great. Let's do that as well!"
I just went there after years of avoidance because my kids are there are lot. I needed to see. They're not there anymore. Manosphere, I hate those different than me, racism, outright hatred. It's fucked.
I don't regularly use it, but I run into yt in search results every now and then. If I've looked, the front page and lots of recommends have always looked like cancer, I've never seen anything like that. Could it be a localized thing?
“Generating” $117m, or allocating ad revenue and watch hours to these videos? Because it sounds like businesses will pay for advertisements to see numbers go up, and if numbers go up then people think ads are working. This whole economy is stupid because unless the money is coming from a consumer then it’s false. If the only thing being consumed is content, the ads are simply a hurdle that people love to keep throwing in the way and propping up this shit content. At some point market economics needs to win and balance things out and advertisers need to check their ROI, but that will never happen because new metrics will be made to justify the marketing teams or 3rd party consultants these companies are paying to put out these ads.
If there was a filter for “unmonetised” this house of cards would fall on its ass. Real people uploading real content to share for real consumers to enjoy and view.
Horrendous amounts of BS on X, Facebook, Insta, TikTok, etc. Applies to ' news ', images and videos.
So what percent is AI?