Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows
Honestly, Youtube was already pretty shit with all of the obvious monetization schemes and paid “influencer” content. Even though I never watch reaction videos I feel like they are always recommended to me. Their algorithms were already busted to prefer user-created slop. This is just another step towards complete enshittification.
Blocktube is a necessity now. I had to swap back to firefox, despite preferring Brave a lot more, because without the ability to block channels, Youtube quickly becomes unusable.
Go to FB where it must be around 40%
Tell your favorite content creators to get over to Nebula. Or are there better options?
Peertube, but requires taking care of monetization/donations themselves, and possibly needing to run their own instance(?). Discovery sucks (I think Peertube may be anti-algo similar to Mastodon) so they’ll have to take care of promoting themselves as well.
I think Nebula is a creator-owned platform, so very hard to get into. I’ve also seen that their privacy policy is not good.
Patreon’s also an option
I here Onlyfans is a good ave too
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’s almost as if there is a financial incentive to enshitify everything.
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’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.
0 people liked the removal of the dislike button.
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.
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.
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”
100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts
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.
For YouTube, I’ve switched to Grayjay and I just subscribe to creators I like. I ignore the home feed.
This has removed AI slop, ads, and shorts, which is awesome, but I the tradeoff is jot having a useful recommendation feed. Its not as good as YouTube of old, but worlds better than YouTube of the last few years.
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.
Choice is free…stop whining. Bitching about people listening to ai songs or videos is such a beta male move.
Here it is. I am sorry AI produces better songs or videos than yourself. See it as a sign to quit being an artist or whatever, you clearly suck if you struggle against a machine.
Hey, man. Skimmed through your comments from today.
Are you sure you don’t want to go out? Maybe with a friend to enjoy the day. Or maybe fix something around the house that you’ve been meaning to fix for a while?
I’m sure you have a life full of little things that your energy is better spend with, instead of… you know. broadly gestures at your profile
This account is also only one day old. Make of that what you will
Bait used to be believable.
New account telling to stop whining, sure, like I’m the only one whining. And AI can’t make better music or videos. It’s not a human, it does not have feelings or the way to travel and discover the world. Hence, that’s why it can’t produce something with meaning. It will never go to understand the way we understand.
So you’re one of those basics that believes in the whole alpha male thing are you. You know thats marketing BS meant to get idiots to buy protein powder.
Removed by mod
beta male
This bs is essentially just astrology for men lol
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?
