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I don't know if I'm using YouTube the right or the wrong way, but no, not seeing or watching any AI content. I watch like 5-7 channels, I only use the "subscriptions" page. I might watch a recommended video, but those are usually the old videos from the channels I have subscribed to. I have uBlock and another extension that blocks shorts. Maybe it is a shitfest, but I'm not witnessing it. There are plenty of decision we all make.
Unhook should provide more personal control of experiences within Youtube. If I must watch something controversial like discussions about opposition to AI, I use Freetube so that I don't get bombarded with unnecessary suggestions.
That Unhook sounded interesting, so I turned off my current YouTube add-on ("Hide shorts for Youtube™") and uhhh, the Unhook literally did nothing but arranged some things around lol. Not for me, the shorts and all were still there. But cool idea I guess.
Fwiw you can report undisclosed AI videos now but removing the view from your watch history is prob also a good idea
Anyone interested in history better start collecting actual tangible history books before they're all destroyed, and read & learn from those books, before TPTB use computers & internet & ai to rewrite past history to change & omit past historical events for their own nefarious purposes.
LibGen will always be with us.
I'm not trying to be contrarian or defeatist here, but would it really be useful if basically everyone else "knows" the official story?
I can 100% see why it would be important to fight for and preserve, but on the individual scale it looks like a steady train to being that weird guy who [hates our country / is a terrorist / believes our people have ever been baddies / etc]
... Yes?
Public knowledge drives public opinion and decision making.
A lack of knowledge of history makes us more likely to repeat history. Rewriting of history is usually a tactic that prevents mistakes of the past from being taught or learned, often for a direct benefit to an entity.
My algorithm knows better. It knows I won't hesitate to delete my history and fuck up its metrics.
I have been using YouTube on the same account for like 15 years and I have never deleted my watch history :o
Honestly I wish I hadn't done it the first time. I didn't think it actually would affect the algorithm, and it screwed things up for a bit. It really did help when I stopped watching chud crap though.
Dude my coworker keeps sending me AI astrophysics videos because we have arguments about "new discoveries" not being real. It's going to make people dumb as hell. Tbf he already is
The easiest way to get out of an argument with me is to send me a YouTube video. It has always been the worst source of information about everything, even worse than early Wikipedia. I will not watch your YouTube video.
And it's slow as hell. They always think their point is both complicated and interesting. Text remains the best medium for communication.
Sorta depends for me. If I can connect the YouTuber back to something valid like an event where science is held in high esteem or collabs with people I do trust I'll give it a shot. Basically every single time this is not the case, and in his case it's literally never the case. Dude searches for his batshit view, clicks the first video without watching it, then sends it like I'm supposed to filter it for him. He'd believe in aliens if the video had 1 million views. He kinda does anyways since the why files is his favorite channel and it's barely researched (by AI) slop, where whatever his agent can't disprove becomes a "mystery"
One of the examples that comes to mind is the Navy UAP videos, where he looked at what was clearly a bird, wing flaps and all, locked on to by a fighter jet and said "that's a craft and WOAH it disappeared (when the pilot lost autotarget)" as well as, "a fighter pilot on Fox said it's a vehicle of some sort and he's a lot smarter than you." And got indignant and walked off when I said, "smarter and paid or a lot dumber than me, either way he's wrong."
I brought up the dumbass sheriff chasing Jupiter on a winding road too and he felt it wasn't Jupiter because the sheriff was an expert witness for some reason. Dude's cooked
Ai voice or is just text to voice? Some people are adverse to having their voice online like that, but still want to participate in things.
Seemingly AI voice. There's a really good Kyle Hill video about them.
Try older videos or a different website
all the shorts are mostly AI, some are just reposted from tiktok. and alot of wierd animal videos are AI generated.
You have a poor choice in content because my feeds are very human, often long form and friction heavy.
nah i dont log in, and its not my problem its this way, im not giving them my data.
I'm using https://aisloplist.com/ on Firefox and chrome. Seems to work well, not sure why it's not used by more people.
It's a community project / extension for identifying and blocking AI channels on YouTube.
Edit: another commenter in this thread mentioned an Android app YouTube Morphe which uses the same index. I don't know how to link to their comment.
I've been looking for something like this. I just want an AI filter on youtube. They already label videos "ai"
Nebula is a pretty good source for History vids.
Thanks I'll check it out
I have stopped using the youtube frontpage and blocked the algorithmic recommendations from appearing.
Now I only browse my subscriptions.
My recommendations for food history: Tasting History with Max Miller + Townsends
For Military History: Lindybeige
For Medieval Clothing: Bernadette Banner
Medieval Life: V. Birchwood
General History: Premodernist
i never login on Yt, so i try to swamp the algorithim my preferred feeds, of certain kinds of videos, pets/animal science, clips of old shows.
More recommendations:
Miniminuteman (history/debunking viral claims)
Ancient Americas (video essays about various pre-contact societies in the Americas)
Time Team (filming archaeologists as they excavate a site)
A Brush With Bekah (demonstrations of historical pigment use, plus education about why it's toxic AF)
What's been helpful recently is having a different native language than English. Coupled with the no translation extension that prevents YouTube's AI from dubbing stuff I already understand, I sometimes get interesting and specific recommendations.
Otherwise, stick to known channels.
EDIT: The downside of speaking multiple languages with YouTube's AI push is that it's gonna try to translate everything to you as if you were monolingual. Set YouTube in English and it will translate everything in English, even if you speak French or German. Set YouTube In French and it will translate everything in French even if you can speak English. This shit is horrible.
I found a really cool video I think comparing the pacific rim robots. Only got 2-3 minutes in because the AI voice over threw me off.
Checked out the channel and they made a kinda face reveal saying thank you for the views, with their actual voice. Even with their accent, I would have much preferred the human accented voice, verses the "perfect" computer voice
you should look on fmhy.net (free media heck yea). It gathers all sorts of free internet content like linking to archives with history content or places to find recipes.
Worked better for me than a searchengine for starting with sourdough (my starters could be dead by now)
Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
Most of the content I watch is stuff that's less likely to be ai generated I think
where does one learn such power? I'm daily blocking the entire recommendation section to not getting nuts
Usually when its ai voice you need to switch the audiochannel.
My YouTube feed is 9/10 in English and for some reason YouTube tries to force German ai voice on me :(
Install the 'YouTube No Translation' extension to get rid of it, it's so incredibly annoying. Insane that Google still can't fathom bilingual people existing 🙄
The amount of extensions that I need to have to make YouTube a usable experience again istg
Imagine not using sub box for all your video. Fuck algorithm i am the algorithm now.
This. My #1 starting point for watching videos on YT is not the home page, but my subscription feed.
Look at me. I am the algorithm now.
Yeah, Same here honestly
Respect for using the "Le Me" format.... It's an older code but it checks out.
So some tricks and tips to ensure YouTube learns what videos you really want:
It's a long list but it's really 90% is the first two so your views are deliberate, sticking to subs is not a bad idea if the algorithm is particularly frustrating at the moment as it will also help limit the random walk. What anoys me the most is the first two are not account settings rather cookies so every new device I need to tell YouTube how to behave.
It is sad how widespread the ai slop has become on youtube. The official Criterion collection channel just released a video which has scenes that are entirely AI-generated. The channel for the record company Analogue Sounds has as well. And even if the videos themselves doesn't contain AI-slop, then a lot of them have AI-generated thumbnails.
It is disheartening how many people are just mindlessly accepting AI-slop in their daily life.