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On YouTube, videos featuring these bizarre and overwrought tales are proliferating, claiming Trump-world figures bested their antagonists during micro-interactions: at restaurants, on the street, in little-known court cases, and on late-night talk shows. These videos often generate thousands of views and a flood of supportive comments—and they’re all completely fake.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Hit them with copyright strikes, that seems to work on legit channels

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who is watching this slop? Are we sure there are real people watching it, or is it just AI watching AI?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My grandparents believe it's real, and only furthers their delusional support of Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Recommend not letting old people use YouTube unattended. Same for children.

Really, no one should be using most of YouTube. It's a big ol' cognito-hazard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't have the time to keep them from watching misinformation and AI slop on YouTube all the time, unfortunately.

While there's not much I can do about stopping them from searching for and watching right-wing extremism, I can at least keep YouTube itself from recommending it by telling the algorithm not to recommend certain channels.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

would something like this be illegal under the Take It Down act or is it just AI fakes that make Trump look bad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be clear, they make trump's administration look good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes that's why I'm asking if something that makes trump look good would be taken down under the Take It Down Act

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oh I see. That's easy, no it would not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, YouTube has let all sorts of horrible things fester on their platform. Anti-vax stuff, far right extremism, climate denial stuff. They've got blood on their hands and I wouldn't be sad if their leadership was hanged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They're like a snuff film mega outlet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

to think we can't have cheap videogame cards anymore because of this slop