It’s become unbearable, as has 90% of the web.

Once Peertube's able to provide the minimal feature parity, I'd bet that most would abandon YouTube similar to what happened with Reddit and Lemmy

shit the internet has become a toilet and I have to go outside and look around and talk to people but everyone's on the internet now I'm fucked

A telling thing is that apparently Youtube's algorithm knows that these videos are AI slop. I suspect this because at the outset I was aggressively disrecommending any of these that Youtube suggested to me, and basically nothing like them shows up in my feed anymore. Every once in a while one still slips through, usually some manner of synthetic music thing, and I hit the ol' three dots and choose "not interested" and then "don't recommend this channel" and I never see it again.

What's much more concerning is that the average user (i.e. non tech people, i.e. practically everybody) is being handed this shit by default and in my lifetime of experience of people already being widely unable to distinguish truth from blatant manipulative fantasy, the prevalence of false/misleading/nonsense/fabricated AI bullshit being constantly peddled inches from their eyeballs is absolutely eroding peoples' already limited ability to think.

I remember a panic some years back about YT funnels of cartoon content aimed at kids, that would lead to weird and sometimes disturbing stuff like "elsa ariel and moana drown together" ... I guess the algo has evolved to target nonchildren now

Garbage site, even if the Alphabet CEO wasn't an oligarch fash toady. Happily running health scam woo ads and refuses to act on reporting of scam advertising.

And the comments are so obviously bots as well, they're so polite and saying compliments, and the same comment over and over by different accounts, just bots watching bot videos.

If I had never used YT before, that shit would turn me off of it so hard.

Rise of the small web

I report each one. And then I tell YouTube I never want to see anything from that channel again. I even pay for premium because I don't want ads and I want to support some content creators (not shorts, no AI, etc). But this AI shit is really making me wonder what I'm even paying for?

20% of videos shown aren't AI slop

My niece loves these things. I’m super unhappy about it.

The dead internet is here.

"Let's get those numbers up!" - TechLord, Profiteering Destroyer of Culture

i havent found you tube interesting in years. I also use 3rd party viewers if I have to watch something there so there is no algorithym to suggest anything.

Works better that way.

If I was into this kind of stuff, there are so many get rich quick schemes like - I could be creating ai slop and making side hustle or I could be selling merch to maga and then closing shop.

So this is what the power grids burn for?