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What's the point of discovering new content on YouTube if there's a 50/50 chance of it being a highly polished AI gen video repeating the same thing over and over again for 20 minutes?
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If you can't figure it out quickly, you deserve it.
I'm more upset by "documentaries" made by zoomers about "retro" tech, they make lots of mistakes in their research and look at things with hindsight, that we obviously didn't have at the time.
They also make me feel old and I don't like it.
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>>108599906
Certain music genres have been flooded with AI-generated mixes. It's more prevalent with genres that can get away with generic, repetitive loops, such as drum & bass, and some styles of breakcore--most use it as a generic umbrella term.
I don't like them not because I particularly dislike AI or because the mixes are particularly bad--most cases you can't really tell unless you look at the low view count suspect--I don't support AI-generated content because I don't want to support thirdies. Simple as.
Irrespective of AI-generated content, Zoomers ruined any mixes on YouTube with their shitty tastes in music, and their miscategorization of certain songs into the wrong genres.
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>>108600421
If you want to use an audio port you can use the $9 Apple adapter which has a better DAC than your current phone and it even beats your PC audiophile set up BTW. :^) Source: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-appl e-vs-google-usb-c-headphone-adapter s.5541/
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>>108599906
I am a genius
I have invented a genius tool (with my genius) to help filter this AI content
You know how underneath the video it has a 'like' button
You can see how many people have 'liked' the video
But it is a fairly meaningless metric in isolation
What would help a lot
Is if we could compare these 'likes'
To an equivalent negative value
For example, we might call it a 'dislike'
Then you could easily see before even playing a video that the content was not necessarily as advertised
Saving you a lot of time
And making for a better user experience
The only flaw with this system might be
If governments were using the platform for blatant propaganda campaigns
The videos would be heavily disliked
Hence breaking the illusion of conformity
These governments would probably pressure youtube to remove the dislike feature
I surely hope that never happens
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>>108600421
I've never bought an iToddler product in my life.
wireless headphones simply MOG wired for convenience.
I don't know about you, but I don't enjoy wearing an ear leash to be physically tied to device like a dog.
>muh sound quality
Is genuinely better through a USB-C dongle DAC than it is through the shitty one in the 3.5mm on your phone.
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>>108599989
I never had a phone with 3.5 headphone jack that didn't have the aux jack break a year or two before the phone became obsolete. I swear to god every single ine broke, and I don't doubt that usb type c is just as flimsy amd would break even quicker if it wasn't for the fact that I don't use it for audio at all. The problem with physical ports is that it doesn't matter what design you have, if you use it for mobile use (like putting it in your pocket and doing activities with the cord connected) the port will inevitably fail. Just look at the failure rates of usb-c ports in laptops. They fail on laptops because people treat them like tethers and move tye laptop around while still connected. They pull on them, tug on them, and worst of all they put the Laptop on their bed and then sit on the cord. Shit breaks and those usb-c charging ports are loosely soldered.
I expect to hear reports in the coming years of MacBook neo ports completely failing simply because of the people who are buying them.
As for ai slop on YouTube. I have yet to be fully hit with it, probably because I no longer browse or interact with YouTube unless directed there from somewhere else.
I simply seek out the content and information that ai simply isn't capable of creating... yet. The only thing ai is useful for in my life is pointing me towards something or parsing large amounts of data and giving direct answers to questions from it. I expect in the future the lunes will blur, but that hasn't come to my life yet like it has others.
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>>108599906
When I kick back.in the evening and put youtube on the big telly I get a little box that says artificial or ai generated content but on phone or desktop i don't get the same alert. Where can I find the info on phone or pc?
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>>108600460
I have these and they sound well good
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>>108599906
please someone for the love of FUCK add a filter to get the AI slop videos off of my fucking youtube. I can't stand the fucking AI voice or the word choice I hear it every time and these videos are fucking everywhere
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something worse: when they use ai to transcribe speech, and the captions come out obviously wrong, yet the uploader is too fucking lazy to proofread and fix anything. even when they're, I assume, getting paid by youtube to shit out slop
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>>108599906
>repeating the same thing over and over again for 20 minutes
Non AI YouTubers do this as well. It's the meta to milk most money.
Generally YouTube is utter tripe unless you stick to creators you already know lol
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>>108599906
All digital content can be generated. Now is a good time to start developing other hobbies and interests to catch your attention and keep you occupied. The squirts of dopamine that internet content gives you are not worth it anymore.
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I just stopped clicking on videos that teach me something. Now my highest ranked is survival/fighting videos like from stimpee or memeio, the occasional challenge video from ambiguous amphibian, very rarely call me Kevin.
My MOST favorite are trolling videos, bub games and good griefs. (With bub games being my absolute favorite most comfy content to watch because it brings me back and makes me laugh)
Then there's ASMR, of which I have many tastes.
And last but not least, I have bald and bankrupt who is the only travel YouTuber I watch.
And last last last, I have mrbeast and Minecraft civilization videos.
That pretty much encapsulates all of my watch time.
OCCASIONALLY I'll watch Steve 1989 off MRE info. And I'll be coming back at you with something new. Or old. Alright, yeah, see ya
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>>108601806
sadly the best there is is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-ai-youtube/, but still requires people to notice and flag
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>>108599906
>he watches youtube "content"
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>>108602232
DACs ARE transparent but you're never actually listening to DAC alone, you're listening to DAC and amp, and amps are most definitely not transparent, even on apple dongle
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/on-the-dist ortion-of-cirrus-logic-cs431xx-base d-devices-a-comparative-review.6303 8/
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>>108600452
no because usb-c is garbage design and sockets break and wear out all the fucking time.
I've been using 3.5 for 40 years and only a handful have ever worn out. With usb-c it's like 25%.
You fags have no idea what reliable technology is like or what it's like to be free from being completely owned by a corporation.
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>>108607951
No it wasn't, that was their excuse.
>Bad news losers, we are going to ruin our platform in order to suppress free speech and act as agents for government propaganda
>Great news, we are going to protect creators who are getting BULLIED! Everyone wants this!
Which do you think they are more likely to say publicly? All creators were complaining about it.
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>>108608752
It was content creators, it was directly in response to the Rewind which was filled with literal nobodies and sycophants nobody had ever heard of and it got carpet bombed with dislikes along with the people who were in it.
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>>108610129
Can you provide a link to a single model of wireless headphones sold in the last 5 years that gets an advertised 2:1 (ChargeTime:ListenTime) ratio?
Hell, I'd even accept a 1:1 ratio.
Surely you'll be able to provide one right? Surely you didn't just lie and make up FUD to justify being tethered to a device like a dog.
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>>108599906
If you see a clickbait vague title, scroll passed. If you see a colourful childish thumbnail, scroll passed. If you see an advert or sponsor within the video, click off of the video. If the video creator rambles on and makes a 2 minute video a 20 minute video, never click on their shit again. If the video starts with "HEY GUY-" close the video and don't click on their shit ever again
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>>108608801
You've got the timeline completely wrong. The dislike button was removed in November 2021, before that year's rewind had been released, and besides the decision would have been made much earlier.
>Wojcicki acknowledged that the team knew that removing dislikes wouldn't be widely well received, but that the company reviewed lots of feedback post-release and didn't encounter any concerns that it hadn't already considered.
>Paraphrased to "Everyone hates this, but we already knew they would. It is an objectively bad move for our platform and we know that, but we are doing it anyway"
At this time the White House was pressuring social media companies hard to crack down on anything that went against government narratives, most prominently at that time regarding covid but there were other topics as well. Zuck has spoken about this and a heap of shit came out with the Twitter files. At this time White House, CDC, and any official orgs' PSAs were getting absolutely ratio'd like nothing ever in the history of the internet. Like 90% and more every time. It was getting really embarrassing for them and damaging their propaganda efforts, but simply disabling dislikes on their own videos would cause a Streisand effect. Hence they pressured Youtube to remove it.
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>>108610567
Click the menu button next to the video and hit 'don't recommend channel'. Also use the like and dislike buttons when you like or dislike content. It helps the algorithm know what you want. My algorithm is usually pretty good because of these simple steps.
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Forget AI, that's easy to suss out and avoid like the plague.
The real cancer are channels that are bankrolled and engineered by large corporations, It's all a giant content farm.
stuff like veritasium, fern, fireship eg.
Fern is a notable example, instead of being bought out it's literally the youtuber equivelent of an industry plant.
makes you wonder how many other relatively 'small' up and coming channels are actually owned/funded.
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>>108599906
Sometimes the entire video is also an undisclosed ad. Where a guy just shills his 3d printer over and over (and onshape).
Then the guy just goes through the comments to delete everybody pointing it out.
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>>108599906
It's not a new video. It's not even written by a human. It's a fully AI-made video. When you watch it, it's not something you haven't seen before. It's not a thought that a fellow-human is telling you. It's a prompted AI generating a completely new and interesting topic for you to enjoy.
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>>108599906
Why try to discover new content at all?
I mostly watch videos that are 10+ years old.
The older the less shit the content tends to be because people used to make videos out of passion not grind them out to make money.
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>>108599906
It is working as expected.
Businessmen know that normies don't really care what that are given. They want YouTube as a TV. No one has taught them that something can be genuinely interesting, and explained by real people who know their shit (instead of just fast-talking presenters and fake media stars), so they grab a doze of dumb entertainment.
Every social network service works as a TV for the lowest common user now. AI simply cuts production costs, so it is natural that crap content producers all use it. If you want to make money on crap, your business is in danger. If you want to make something valuable, you make something valuable. It was always like that.
So stop complaining how recommendations are not the same, as millions others find fashionable to do, ignore all the YouTube crap at one, and find interesting people on your own.
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>>108613558
> you can't find anything good on there without having an account so you can get a favourable algorithm
I have the account since the days they weren't even combined with Google accounts. The Algorithm in which you idiots believe does not exist, and it is completely broken for me. Given all the history, it fills the home page with unrelated crap I won't watch, and does not even update most offers on refresh. I guess I do not fit the kind of user on whom they trained their models. Which also suggests that the goal of that training was not to solve users' problem, but something else. And that should be obvious: when the corporation is given a success metric (watch time wasted by users on their service instead of competitors' services), every department and every employee starts working to increase it, willingly or unwillingly.
I found your problem. Here's an advice: you should know what you want to watch and whom you want to check before opening YouTube. If you don't, don't open it. If you don't know which video to watch next, stop and close YouTube. The same works with any other service. Use it the way you intend to instead of getting used.