AI-generated garbage, promoted by youtube's "algorithm"

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RIP youtube. It is promoting so much AI-generated garbage. I predict that within a year it will be difficult to find human-created content outside the things you've already subscribed to.

The voice synthesis is excellent, for AI, but currently mispronounces enough stuff that you can recognize it as auto-generated by the un-accented voice mispronouncing words, and especially acronyms. But they'll improve that. You might notice the video is stock or archive footage and doesn't follow the narration. And eventually you'll recognize that they are saying a lot of words that are topical but convey so little.

Either a lot of people are stupid enough to be fooled by these videos, or there are lots of bots, because the comments are a mixture of people taking it seriously and people laughing at it.

RIP youtube.

I haven’t been on much YouTube recently, but sad to hear the way it’s going.

In general I dislike lazy content whether it’s produced by a human or a computer! I want to watch something that someone has injected a bit of thought and emotion into, and that immediately discounts anything produced by an AI, (at least at the moment).

I am fortunate that my recommended is full of hyper specific video essays on films, sketchbook tours, art advice, independent animation projects and general life advice on how to learn certain skills. This includes new channels that I'm not subscribed to at the moment.

However, I live in a very particular content bubble. If I wasn't already a massive fan of certain artists, then I probably never would have stumbled upon related content.

I think that a lot of human creators have been put off producing content for such platforms. YouTube values quantity above quality and as such content farms tend to do well. They throw out slop which the bots love and others tolerate as background noise.

There's still some great content on there if you know where to look. I tend to use it actively rather than passively scroll, since I know what type of content I'm looking for.

Its not just youtube. The web is turning up more and more AI generated content.

I think AI may have a problem here. The Internet is effectively it's learning set. The more it churns out garbage, the more the stuff it generates is informed by that garbage. And it can generate that garbage far quicker than the humans generating quality content.

It's like a photocopier that's copying it's own output. Each iteration gradually gets lower fidelity until its just a blobby mush.

I can see it rendering the entire Internet unusable.