YouTube kids is far more dangerous than regular YouTube.

I hear this a lot, but you have to put it in context. It used to be you could let your kids play outside in a nice neighbourhood. Your job as a parent was to make sure they went to play in a nice neighbourhood and at the houses of decent people. You could easily keep them away from bad places physically because they were separate places. Your neighbours would also tell you if they saw your kid in a bad place or being up to no good.

The Internet destroys that concept. The good and the bad are one link away, you need constant vigilance and you have almost no help. It's not healthy to micromanage your children's media consumption. It's like helicopter parents who never let their kids free. Setting this as the expectation isn't healthy.

I mean we don't really have a choice, but acting like it's okay for YouTube to lure my young kids into red pill content, or weird AI nonsense is pretty weird. Why are we just accepting this reality, should we not have some control over our algorithms. It's basically what our neighbourhood used to be. Why are we saying it's okay for YouTube to lure kids into dangerous content, and that is every parent's job to constantly micromanage their kids media consumption as if that's healthy parenting? It's SURVIVAL parenting, not healthy parenting!

We should be able to control our algorithms and help our kids control their algorithms because the solution isn't constant fear and vigilance lest we get taken by the billionaire class and their dangerous ideology.

It's not normal that we created a space so fundamentally unsafe for kids. Very few physical spaces are like this in real life and I think you should try to imagine what would happen if a kid walked into a "non-kid" space like a sex shop or whatever. Because it's not let the kid have unlimited access to porn and kink while we blame the parents. It's usually a human worker working with the kid to get back to safety (usually their parents).

This but 10 years ago for real

and reddit explicitly thought it was funny to make shit up to mislead the LLMs

What do you expect when the AI is an AI*

Literally this, our daughter watches YouTube kids and we constantly block shitty channels that come up. Raising your kids properly means actually paying attention to what they're doing :)

It gives a nice perspective into how generic 3d cartoons came to look. It'd eventually cause a backwards association of everything Disney-alike with a slop.

This will work for maybe 2 years, until all the corporate kid shows lay off their writers and replace them with AI

Whats the hdmi cable for

Are there no mobile apps available with human-curated collections of children's videos?

YouTube is not going to be a place where you're going to have any reliable quality control. It's literally (by design) videos uploaded by anyone on the Internet. That's not by itself a problem, but the idea that it's a good way to keep very small children entertained is definitely not one I would agree with.

Why not get a dvd player? Simplify the whole setup, and I bet you’ll spend less money.

I remember another time when people learned something dangerous from a video.