Fwiw you can report undisclosed AI videos now but removing the view from your watch history is prob also a good idea
My algorithm knows better. It knows I won’t hesitate to delete my history and fuck up its metrics.
I have been using YouTube on the same account for like 15 years and I have never deleted my watch history :o
Honestly I wish I hadn’t done it the first time. I didn’t think it actually would affect the algorithm, and it screwed things up for a bit. It really did help when I stopped watching chud crap though.
Anyone interested in history better start collecting actual tangible history books before they’re all destroyed, and read & learn from those books, before TPTB use computers & internet & ai to rewrite past history to change & omit past historical events for their own nefarious purposes.
I’m not trying to be contrarian or defeatist here, but would it really be useful if basically everyone else “knows” the official story?
I can 100% see why it would be important to fight for and preserve, but on the individual scale it looks like a steady train to being that weird guy who [hates our country / is a terrorist / believes our people have ever been baddies / etc]
… Yes?
Public knowledge drives public opinion and decision making.
A lack of knowledge of history makes us more likely to repeat history. Rewriting of history is usually a tactic that prevents mistakes of the past from being taught or learned, often for a direct benefit to an entity.
Try older videos or a different website
Nebula is a pretty good source for History vids.
I’m using https://aisloplist.com/ on Firefox and chrome. Seems to work well, not sure why it’s not used by more people.
It’s a community project / extension for identifying and blocking AI channels on YouTube.
Edit: another commenter in this thread mentioned an Android app YouTube Morphe which uses the same index. I don’t know how to link to their comment.
I’ve been looking for something like this. I just want an AI filter on youtube. They already label videos “ai”
Need this mobile too
Yes. Not sure why it’s desktop only.
Yeah, Same here honestly
What’s been helpful recently is having a different native language than English. Coupled with the no translation extension that prevents YouTube’s AI from dubbing stuff I already understand, I sometimes get interesting and specific recommendations.
Otherwise, stick to known channels.
EDIT: The downside of speaking multiple languages with YouTube’s AI push is that it’s gonna try to translate everything to you as if you were monolingual. Set YouTube in English and it will translate everything in English, even if you speak French or German. Set YouTube In French and it will translate everything in French even if you can speak English. This shit is horrible.
I found a really cool video I think comparing the pacific rim robots. Only got 2-3 minutes in because the AI voice over threw me off.
Checked out the channel and they made a kinda face reveal saying thank you for the views, with their actual voice. Even with their accent, I would have much preferred the human accented voice, verses the “perfect” computer voice
“verses” is poetry. You wanted “versus”, aka “vs”.
Technically, verse isn’t synonymous with poetry, and a section of a poem is more properly a stanza. So if we’re going to be pedantic about typos, we should at least be pedantic correctly.
It is sad how widespread the ai slop has become on youtube. The official Criterion collection channel just released a video which has scenes that are entirely AI-generated. The channel for the record company Analogue Sounds has as well. And even if the videos themselves doesn’t contain AI-slop, then a lot of them have AI-generated thumbnails.
It is disheartening how many people are just mindlessly accepting AI-slop in their daily life.
I recommend historiacivilis.com
Good call, I enjoyed their videos on the English Civil War.
Yeah, no fucking thanks to the techbros wanting all of humanity to embrace this monstrosity by arguing AI is the “new normal”.
Imagine not using sub box for all your video. Fuck algorithm i am the algorithm now.
This. My #1 starting point for watching videos on YT is not the home page, but my subscription feed.
Look at me. I am the algorithm now.
So some tricks and tips to ensure YouTube learns what videos you really want:
- Turn off autoplay, don’t let it go down an algorithmic rabbit hole only allow it to see what you really want and click on
- Turn off the hover play on PC, this is annoying mouse over counts as watching they will be in your history despite no audio and you just had the mouse over it… Again gives all sorts of slop in your history
- Subscribe to channels you like, yes YouTube will quickly learn if you binge a specific channel you like the creator and put it on your home feed, but if the home feed is a bit too much slop you want to be able to just look at your subs
- When you find that AI slop video and more from the same creator exists in your feed use the do not recommend this channel feature
- there is also a do not recommend video good for some evil click bait titles that Google tries to show you for weeks and still not interested
- the last two if it’s persistent use the tell more/tell why
It’s a long list but it’s really 90% is the first two so your views are deliberate, sticking to subs is not a bad idea if the algorithm is particularly frustrating at the moment as it will also help limit the random walk. What anoys me the most is the first two are not account settings rather cookies so every new device I need to tell YouTube how to behave.
Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
Most of the content I watch is stuff that’s less likely to be ai generated I think
where does one learn such power? I’m daily blocking the entire recommendation section to not getting nuts
Turn off history when signed in maybe? Turning it off seems to work for me. Most of my recommendations on the side when signed in are from channels I have already subscribed to, while I typically avoid clicking on channels and videos that have clickbait-y thumbnails or titles.
I’ve got search history off, watch history on. When I watch something that I don’t want to see more of popping up in my recommendations, I immediately remove it from history after. The resulting watch history plus a small number of core subscriptions results in quite useable recommendations for me.
