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0 pointsnancyminusone1mo ago0 comments

YouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff.

I clicked on one about Henry the 8th, which is a story Ive heard heard 100 times but whatever. It started out normal enough, then claimed he started carrying around a staff with a human skull on the top near the end. Made up artifacts and paintings.

The most egregious has to be the "World War II mechanic fixes entire allied plane arsenal with piece of wire" category. I've come across a couple dozen of these. Completely fabricated events and people that never seem to have existed.

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PaulDavisThe1st1mo ago

> YouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff.

I don't know what the current upload rate to YT is, but this seems unlikely. Despite the reckless and insane energy consumption associated with generative visual and audio art forms, there's no way there's enough power available for generative stuff to overwhelm the "actually recorded digital video" uploads.

Are there some niches on YT where this is true? Seems possible. YT overall? Nah.

nancyminusoneOP1mo ago

If my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally".

Most of these kind of videos aren't fully SORA level AI anyway, they just use ChatGPT to make up a fake story and script they would otherwise have to make up themselves, which is much faster, and increases the chances one of them gets picked up by the algorithm and generates a few bucks in ad revenue.

PaulDavisThe1st1mo ago

> If my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally".

Sure. But if you live in a multi-apartment complex and someone's toilet on the far side of the complex is overflowing, you don't say "my apartment is flowing with raw sewage".

Maybe your part of the complex (YT) is drowning in raw sewage, mine is not, and I'm vaguely confident that the complex (YT) is large enough that at this point in time, most parts of it are still functioning "as intended".

anon70001mo ago

I think YT Shorts IS overwhelmed with complete garbage. There are lots of great channels I watch that don’t have issue.

But YT shorts is the one place on YT that tries to frequently show you new uploads and stuff outside of your normal algorithm, and there is so much AI on there.

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0 pointsnancyminusone1mo ago0 comments

YouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff.

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PaulDavisThe1st1mo ago

> YouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff.

Are there some niches on YT where this is true? Seems possible. YT overall? Nah.

nancyminusoneOP1mo ago

If my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally".

PaulDavisThe1st1mo ago

> If my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally".

Sure. But if you live in a multi-apartment complex and someone's toilet on the far side of the complex is overflowing, you don't say "my apartment is flowing with raw sewage".

anon70001mo ago

I think YT Shorts IS overwhelmed with complete garbage. There are lots of great channels I watch that don’t have issue.

But YT shorts is the one place on YT that tries to frequently show you new uploads and stuff outside of your normal algorithm, and there is so much AI on there.

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