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Countless AI slop channels are relentlessly copying our work. So one day we decided: enough is enough. We went undercover to investigate who’s behind them and what this flood of AI slop means for the future of educational content on YouTube.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
    23·
    14 hours ago

    Me, be it Youtube, movies or music, I only consume pre-AI content. That way I’m sure it’s man-made.

    At my age, I tend to be a bit stuck in the past anyway. So it’s not like I’m missing out on new stuff that interests me, because new stuff rarely interests me.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      13 hours ago

      You can’t be sure. There’s plenty of deep fake stuff out there of people that died before AI was even around. Alan Watts, for instance.

      If you’re on YouTube, probably a good idea to learn to recognize slop, or at least avoid likely slop even if you can’t determine if it is slop definitively.

      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        10·
        13 hours ago

        Oh I know slop when I see it. I just don’t want to play guess-the-content.

        The stuff I watch or listen to is either very well known, or it’s so obscure that nobody is going to make deep fake of it.