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0 pointsal_borland12d ago0 comments

I’ve been looking at taking a step back from the internet as a whole, including HN, because I’m so tired of the AI slop.

HN and YouTube are basically the only sites I still use. I disabled my watch history on YouTube to kill the recommendations page to get away from a lot of the trash and just focus on my subscriptions. I’ll be unsubscribing to those writing scripts with AI as well, as I notice them.

I’d like to be able to flag things as AI slop on YouTube, so the person gets that feedback and can hopefully get back on the right track. On here, I’m not so sure if that type of reinforcement will matter, or if will be more obvious to the person why a post was flagged.

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noir_lord12d ago· 1 in thread

https://unhook.app/ lets you disable features on YT (granular though the default is good).

https://aisloplist.com/ works as well but considering the torrent of AI shite posted on YT it only gets some of it but better than nothing.

al_borlandOP12d ago

> 11.9k Channels Blocked

I’m of the opinion that the underlying business of YouTube should suffer if they are unwilling to tackle this issue themselves. Shifting the onus to the user to play a cat and mouse game with extensions makes the overall experience worse, while still rewarding YouTube with views.

Maybe I’m too idealistic and my views are a drop in the bucket, but I think I will vote with my wallet/attention and spend it elsewhere.

95% of my viewing time is on the AppleTV as well, so extensions don’t help too much. I tried installed Untrap YouTube into Orion on my phone and using that as a makeshift YouTube app, but it didn’t really make my experience better in a way that made me actually want to use it over the vanilla experience.

jesterson12d ago· 1 in thread

I wish there would be a mark on YouTube AI slop or a way to mark AI generated garbage.

Its is likely coming, but needed yesterday.

al_borlandOP12d ago

I read they are supposed to be labeling AI stuff, but I assume this is with their tool for looking for the fingerprinting they add to AI generated content. I don’t expect this to help with actual people reading an AI generated script.

I don’t know that they care, as I still see a lot of engagement on these videos, where only one person will call a video out as AI and not even get many upvotes for it. It takes a lot of scrolling to find it. I expect YouTube might say what is AI, but not have a global filter to remove it… but I hope they prove me wrong.

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