... of course I was laughing almost to tears on the three repeats.

no way of knowing how that might be read by anyone who's dyslexic.

I just wanted to credit you for the find, and for sending it to me.

... life. Everything looks right and wrong at the same time. It's made me brave and embarrassed me.

what I think is probably the most entertaining video on the harm done by generative AI that I've ever seen. I've posted a lot of videos about genAI here, like the one from British musician Fil Henley that I posted in Music Appreciation this morning

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034146987

which I hope people will watch. And I've copied a lot of articles and social media posts about AI here, and some of those were very entertaining. But I'd never seen anything that gave such an entertaining and funny overview of how harmful AI slop - genAI content - really is.

❤️

for classical music on YT, what I saw first were videos that named famous composers, though many were recent videos made with AI art and video generators. Then when I looked at one, the YT recommendations beside it included this

https://youtube.com/@TranquilBirdMelodies

which is not bird song, but hundreds of videos with AI music and AI animation of birds (all with umbrellas) posted in the last 9 months.

Sometimes the titles don't match the content. Tired of shorts. It's all about clicks. 1000 clicks means a dime. Most prolific YTbers can make $60,000 a month.

But then I hate the cliquish Facebook, and the sluggish Linked In. Some media personalities populate more than a dozen apps. Don't want to miss a click.

I think the whole thing collapses of its own weight. I literally cannot absorb any more information. My week is drowning in webinars

in AI slop, with people on those platforms pushed to use AI. Didn't really surprise me with Facebook, but did with LinkedIn. Unfortunately they also wanted to generate more and more content so they encouraged people to use text generators to write.

Perhaps the internet is going to become totally useless for most things soon. I mean, you'll still be able to shop on it, find directions, read about a place you are going, but for things like news, current events, and even facts on science and medicine, it is kind of in a decaying spiral that will be sending people elsewhere soon.

Traditional media needs to reinvent itself to fill the gap we're about to see.

point where for a lot of things I prefer to see videos that were uploaded before genAI was available.

We definitely could use an option to weed out all AI-generated videos.

I don’t watch a lot of YouTube videos but this was well worth the time!

Thank you for posting this for the world to see - & thank you to the video creators. brilliant!

I hadn't heard about it and wouldn't have known about it if he hadn't sent me a note this morning.

But yeah, I see those channels and they are repulsive. From the tacky mass produced pictures to the fake likes and comments. Best I can do is click on "Don't recomment this channel", hoping that someone gets the message.

One example of fake 'classical' music is the rise of historical photos presented as stills and compiled into a video. As a backing track there is a sort of free-form piano music; vaguely classical in style but not any known piece. It's really raucous and annoying.

YouTube and how many views they're getting - and how much attention non-AI videos and channels might've lost. Because YouTube viewers' attention is limited, and all the AI crap has to be taking views from better videos.

It’s polluting the internet with garbage, as they point out in this video. There’s always been misinformation and disinformation out there, but there will come the time when it’s very difficult for intelligent people to distinguish between accurate information and bullshit.

I’m heeding one of his points of advice: get off the internet (as much as practicable). It’s actually quite remarkable that I even found this thread.
Bye bye.

...including channels that create totally fictional stories about public figures like Jasmine Crockett and Peyton Manning, and hide the fact the stories are made up in the "Views" banner while otherwise touting these pieces of disinformation as "real life stories". This crap is no better than the nonsense put out by Q-Anon or North Korean state TV.

John Oliver's program the other night focused on "AI Slop", and while I have yet to watch the video, I'd be unsurprised if this kind of thing is part of his coverage.

AI slop that I posted today, and then I posted the video in a third thread on the subject:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220425893

I agree completely about the disinformation online, much of it AI-generated, being very harmful.

But youtube has no clear mechanism to report or censure this crap. The videos sensationalising an imaginary celebrity death often turn their comments off so they still get clicks. And youtube is no better; they hide the number of 'thumbs down' to further distort the true state of video popularity.

Remember those two fresh faced guys who ingenously posed and announced, "Don't be evil"? Those lying feckers are at the bottom of the collapse of society as we know it.