Let's be real, these days a "new YouTube user" is a child who has no idea that alternatives exist or why they would even want to use them in the first place.

Youtubes algorithm is super stubborn and even moreso when it comes to old accounts. I'm far more likely to see a shit post I watched 10 years ago appear in my recommendations than I am anything to do with AI unless it's shitting on the tech.

Feddit.uk bans ai slop.

Open up a new private tab and give it ago. Also start with YouTube shorts.

You can use DeArrow to fix clickbait titles.

Know of any Peertube instances that ban outright slop content?

We need an extension for setting the latest YouTube year.

Why at this point would you have recommendations turned on? You can make your own feed these days

It's 2026 and people are still looking at recommended videos?

Even videos with people in them are becoming ai slop. So I sympathies with her on not knowing.

One of the artists I watch meat canyon has writers that makes scripts (on his second channel that focuses on talking about random topics) and one of them was using Ai to write the script for them.

I still watch that person it's not the biggest deal to me. Theres bigger fish to fry, and we are all human. Worlds not black and white. What's a bigger deal to me is I'll often watch history videos to fall asleep to, and its sooooo hard to find a channel that's not just 100% ai generated from like start to finish. Including pictures. Its like history is getting rewritten from this foggy/fuzzy inaccurate lenses. Kids in the future are going to see a ai generated image of 1800's new York where a man is using a tablet, and think its true.

To answer her question: constant vigilance 🫩

Agree here. I also watch a lot of cooking videos and the Ai nonnas need to quit.

I watch youtube quite a lot while doing chores and things like that. Or watch shows like taskmaster. My recommendations are all just things i would watch anyway. Every now and then there is a mr.veast or something that i click: do not recommend. A minth or so ago, i logged out of my youtube and got tge whole unfiltered homepage. Holy shit, that is a sight to behold. I don't think i would use youtube at all if that was my first glance ever. It was all trump this fox news that and people doing the YouTube face unironically

The quickest way for me to unsubscribe from a YouTuber is when they admit to using ai as their primary research tool.