Yeah this is happening on every major platform now, and only getting worse. As usual, the YT review process is useless and the humans are nowhere to be found.
YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate
Submitted 6 days ago by remington@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
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artyom@piefed.social 5 days ago
magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 days ago
The platform later removed or emptied major AI channels and clarified that repetitive or “unsatisfying or off-putting” videos could be demonetized.
“Unsatisfying or off-putting” is a bit too vague for my tastes.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
Kurzgesagt is great, I watch it with my kids (5, 7 and 10). Awesome kid level science, mostly fun and engaging.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Stated briefly: Kurzgesagt isn’t what it once was.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 days ago
Yeah, but when Brian McManus made a video which somewhat defends Kurzgesagt in their issue with YouTube, it shows that the filter issue isn’t just a problem with Kurzgesagt.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Really? I was just watching some of their newest videos with my son and we thought they were great. I haven’t noticed a drop in quality.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
That’s what happens after a buyout.
tesseract@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I deeply hate YouTube, and I hate that I have to depend on them for some content. Their enormous resources and a huge cache of useful videos make them a monopoly. And they leverage that advantage in truly aggressive and extortionist ways, after killing off all potential competition by initially offering their services for free.
Every platform has to have some form of moderation to protect their users from harm including bullying, nudity and violence. But YouTube’s censorship algorithms are biased political bullies themselves. They kill heated, but necessary discussions and even entire topics. It’s also very biased in some social topics that they essentially define the narrative and culture in seriously damaging ways.
Examples include the topics of rapes and porn. Sure, they’re distressing or disturbing topics for many. But how do you solve them if the discussion around them is completely shutdown? How do you avoid those words in videos raising awareness, crime videos, etc? And how ridiculous is it that grapes 🍇and corn 🌽 should take the fall for Google’s narcissistic stubbornness? The future generations are going to be baffled by this idiocy that they inflicted on us!
At this point they’re too big to fail and they consider it beneath them to address the grievances of the creators or the audience. No company should have so much power over the society. Google should have been splintered into thousands of little pieces and sprinkled all over the planet a long time ago.
It’s high time that we leave YouTube behind and migrate elsewhere, wherever that be. Continuing to depend on them will be willful and irresponsible submission of our society to the abuses of a very toxic, greedy and unscrupulous conglomerate.
InevitableList@beehaw.org 3 days ago
If the place you move to is dependent on advertisers for revenue it will succumb to the same pressures. If it charges a subscription then it will be a gated community with 0.001% the users the rest of the internet has.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
That’s right. Kurzgesagt may be slop, but it’s man-made slop. Slop delicately crafted by real human hands.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
How is it slop? I occasionally watch it, and my bullshit detector never went off. They do a good enough job simplifying complex topics into very approachable and fun-to-watch animations.
I really don’t see anything bad about what they make. I’m not a huge fan, but that’s only because it’s not precisely my jam. But I get the impression that it’s well researched and, obviously, very well produced. No slop in sight.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
It’s sensationalist. It is well researched, so it’s generally technically accurate, and they admit when they make a mistake. But, it’s also generally focused on things that are either very hypothetical, or just not helpful. Basically, it’s high quality clickbait.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
They are owned by venture capitalists.