Children’s media specialists are sounding the alarm over AI YouTube videos that are supposed to be “educational” but are harmful.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago

Indeed, it is aggressively hostile. I thought setting up an allowlist of subscribed channels would be a simple ask. That plus an adblocker and job done, right? No, Google's algorithm is what you get--despite your subscriptions you will get plenty of other things and they will push your kid towards some inappropriate things.

What I do instead is block YouTube on my kid's devices and download selected videos to host on Jellyfin. It's a bit of a pain and not legal, but much better than trying to monitor YouTube use.

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