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0 pointsmuzani6mo ago0 comments

I call it the antibody effect. My favorite example is clickbait headlines like, "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

AI is starting to show this effect - people stay away from em-dashes. There's that yellowish tinge and that composition which people avoid on art. Some of this is bad, but we can probably live without it.

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munificent6mo ago

> "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

Try opening YouTube in an incognito window sometime. Scrolling through a few, I see:

* Banned Amazon Products you NEED to See to Believe!

* This has NEVER Happened Before... (Severe Weather Channel)

* Our Dog got Married and had PUPPIES! THE MOVIE Emotional

* I WENT TO GHOST TOWN AND SOMETHING HEARTBREAKING...

estimator72926mo ago

Absolutely. I block at least three channels a week because YouTube keeps recommending clickbait titles and 'tuber face thumbnails.

Bonus points if said 'tuber is pointing at something with their hand and also a red arrow and/or circle which id also blurred out.

Intolerable.

munificent6mo ago

Instead of blocking channels, trying going through your watch history and deleting anything you've watched in the past that's similar to those. YouTube heavily leans on your history for recommendations, so if it's recommending those, it's because you've watched related stuff.

My YouTube feed never recommends any of that garbage.

muzaniOP6mo ago

Okay, maybe YT is the exception, but some of them claim it's because the algorithm punishes otherwise.

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munificent6mo ago

> "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

Try opening YouTube in an incognito window sometime. Scrolling through a few, I see:

* Banned Amazon Products you NEED to See to Believe!

* This has NEVER Happened Before... (Severe Weather Channel)

* Our Dog got Married and had PUPPIES! THE MOVIE Emotional

* I WENT TO GHOST TOWN AND SOMETHING HEARTBREAKING...

estimator72926mo ago

Absolutely. I block at least three channels a week because YouTube keeps recommending clickbait titles and 'tuber face thumbnails.

Bonus points if said 'tuber is pointing at something with their hand and also a red arrow and/or circle which id also blurred out.

Intolerable.

munificent6mo ago

My YouTube feed never recommends any of that garbage.

muzaniOP6mo ago

Okay, maybe YT is the exception, but some of them claim it's because the algorithm punishes otherwise.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse