YouTube is now full of crap AI slop

What's the nature of these videos? I don't really see anything AI at all on my feed. That said, most of the videos I watch are of people talking long form who I've been following since before the AI craze.

I don’t see any because I only watch channels I trust.

I only watch new content if there is a person presenting it, and making themselves visible on camera for at least a few minutes. It's not perfect, but that few minutes let's me evaluate whether I trust they are real. Of course, this doesn't apply to channels that I trust, such as those I've been watching for years.

As opposed to being full of regular crap?

Yes. The elderly people in my family are falling into watching AI-generated videos which a human never touched before getting views. Grandpa is watching AI-generated stories of puppies saving lives (I had to break it to him, none of these are real) -- just search "puppy saves baby" to see an endless stream of slop. Mom is watching videos from a Galactic Light Federation which she says raise her vibration, and she doesn't believe these are AI. It's tragic, such a waste.

Here's a weird data point: I was recently doing some physical labor with a neighbor who is probably a recovering addict with what some might call a "partially fried brain." After a bit, I noticed that he liked to have his phone out playing AI slop videos with Star Wars-like stories about Galactic this or Federation that.

He said it settled his brain better than human generated content. It was soothing, consistent and just one or two notches above bland.

I left with the impression that his brain and the AI content had a great impedance match.

This doesn't surprise me. Websites and blogs and search results are polluted with trash. On the plus side, it has ruined any "explore" type watching of anything for me, which is making me spend less time on these platforms.

Looking for advice? One approach that might be interesting to try is to subscribe to channels and restrict yourself to your subscriptions. You could even bookmark the subscriptions tab in Youtube so that you don't land on the main page with recommendations.

search yt for “whale barnacles” it’s an endless stream of the worst ai SLOP

1) Disable YouTube history 2) Delete YouTube history 3) Remove Ads (either adblock Or yt premium) 4) ScreenTime on iOS + one sec (or screen zen)

Its a bit drastic but its completely cleared my timeline from slop (by completely clearing my timeline)

Without YT Premium, YT has become a cesspool.

With YT Premium, it's boring as the algorithm keeps bringing you back to your bubble.

So, basically like any place on earth where a lot of people meet.

I stopped going to festivals for that reason.

The worst was near a lake: during the time we needed to setup our small tent, enough RVs had arrive with though dumping their full toilets into the lake wouldn't matter... yeah, bathing never happened, because a lot of brown sausages were swimming around, plus random trash. But it didn't stop there: before the first night, the way between camping grounds and the different stages was clearly visible even without a lot of artificial light,bdue to the white plastic in the trash, lining both sides. Disgusting.

A lot of festival goers are basically ignorant shit-holes on legs. Even if there are only 2-3%, that often spoils it for the rest.

/rant over

I can confirm. My YouTube algorithmic feed is full of AI slop on a whole range of topics, including fake news items, which is particularly concerning because it's often pretty convincing.

As a point of reference: I usually watch high quality content, avoid shorts and other brain rot.

use this extension people https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/control-panel... removes most of the AI slop and almost all the shorts

You can put "before:2021" into the search query.