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No possible way it could be maintained. Youtube allows anyone with an email address to make a channel, and AI tools are cheap or free, and people can make bank by getting their shitty AI-narrated fake documentaries in front of enough people, so there are thousands popping up and getting suggested on people's feeds every single day. Most originate in other countries and most don't even succeed so it's just millions of dead channels with a few shitty AI clips, with fresh new ones popping up all the time.

I also don't know how you could prevent abuse of such an app from users reporting channels that just talk about AI or even completely bogus campaigning from hateful groups.

If there is one, I worry that it won't possibly be able to keep up. Youtube is actively encouraging AI generated content now.

Unfortunately, I think a whitelist is the only option here. Subscribe to specific accounts that you know are legitimate, and use some kind of desktop app for Youtube instead of browsing the site, so you don't get AI generated recommendations after the video.

I ended up subscribing to Nebula.tv last week, hoping to avoid youtube altogether. It's definitely missing a few categories of content (in fact it's mainly video essays and LegalEagle), but that'll be my starting place for videos from now on.

Just find channels you like and subscribe to them. Anything else is a losing battle.

You'd be better off asking for a whitelist of channels that aren't.

I'm not sure, but I use an addon that lets me block channels as I come across them.

It's really getting on my last nerve as well. I get excited to see new content only to hear the robot voice that lets me know I can't trust anything in the video.

I need to look into Nebula or something else. There's still as many great channels as ever on YT, but they just get so hard to find with all the endless BS now.

I guess you'll have an ever growing list of millions accounts. I don't think there is a solution to this, and that's why I don't watch YouTube anymore.

I find it so crazy that there's no "Ignore this channel" feature on Youtube.

Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to prevent people from blocking or ignoring channels they hate?

That's like walking into the shit store and asking if they sell anything that isn't shit.

Sure, they do, but your going to have to paw through a bunch of shit to find it.

Well if people will watch ai video like normal one, and watch adds the same, why would youtube care? Only if ai stuff we dislike, than youtube will do something about it.

Not like we should use youtube at the first place.. Lbry is much better platform, better for us, because:

On lbry we are free to upload whatever we want and noone can ban me from platform for reviling all epstine files for example. While on youtube people are banned and shadow banned all the time for speaking about covid or any other “unvanted” topic. Lbry is like this because it works like torrent so it gives us power, not them. And by them i mean big corporations or better sad powerful individuals..

I have some DNS blocklists for blocking Google outright that take care of the problem pretty well.