I really watch a lot of youtube.
Erwin Ernst eest9 Steinhammer
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Dann wollen wir mal:
#YouTube-Video mit Casey Kreer @kc und bommel @bommel, die den gesamten Vortrag 'Digitale Inklusion: Wie wir Barrierefreiheit für alle erreichen können' auf dem #39c3 kommentieren.
[vergessen] 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQklPjB38ws
Chip Butty
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Well, that's new.
I reported a YouTube video on December 27th—one of those AI-generated videos pretending to be a celebrity (in this case, Jimmy Kimmel) talking about current affairs—for impersonation, and Google just let me know they have pulled it.
Sounds like Google are actually starting to listen when people mention that celebrities don't like having their likeness used without their permission.
It would be better if they understood that viewers don't like being fed crap, but here we are.
Well, that's new.
I reported a YouTube video on December 27th—one of those AI-generated videos pretending to be a celebrity (in this case, Jimmy Kimmel) talking about current affairs—for impersonation, and Google just let me know they have pulled it.
Sounds like Google are actually starting to listen when people mention that celebrities don't like having their likeness used without their permission.
It would be better if they understood that viewers don't like being fed crap, but here we are.
Tel Amiel
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'More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.'
'More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.'
Dann wollen wir mal:
#YouTube-Video mit Casey Kreer @kc und bommel @bommel, die den gesamten Vortrag 'Digitale Inklusion: Wie wir Barrierefreiheit für alle erreichen können' auf dem #39c3 kommentieren.
[vergessen] 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQklPjB38ws
I have many well documented opportunities to improve myself, things I could do that would make me a better person and hurt no one.
Alas, I am flawed, just like you.
But even I don't watch #youtube, it's all garbage fed to you by evil.
Carry on.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Monstrous AI Slop imitating famous people is OUT OF CONTROL on YouTube
It's a horrific scourge. Realistic AI imitations of celebrities, politicians, and more putting words in their mouths that they never said are flooding #YouTube. Sometimes the "Altered or synthetic content" label is visible if you bother to look at the description (which takes extra effort on YT TV interfaces in particular) but the similar warning banner that used to appear for some seconds overlaid on the videos no longer seems to routinely appear.
#Google is creating a monster, and sooner rather than later that monster is likely to turn on its maker.
Monstrous AI Slop imitating famous people is OUT OF CONTROL on YouTube
It's a horrific scourge. Realistic AI imitations of celebrities, politicians, and more putting words in their mouths that they never said are flooding #YouTube. Sometimes the "Altered or synthetic content" label is visible if you bother to look at the description (which takes extra effort on YT TV interfaces in particular) but the similar warning banner that used to appear for some seconds overlaid on the videos no longer seems to routinely appear.
#Google is creating a monster, and sooner rather than later that monster is likely to turn on its maker.
Em :official_verified:
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This is a camera photo of a YouTube Short I published, playing back on my TV's YouTube app.
I do not look like this. I don't look this young and I'm not trying to. My face isn't remotely this smooth. My skin has blemishes, and freckles. My eyebrows are coarser.
YouTube's stupid AI upscaler has clearly made a pass, and I dislike it. I dislike it very much.
Em :official_verified:
and 3 others
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That's Late Stage Capitalism for you:
"More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.
The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.
Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.
The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.
The findings are a snapshot of a rapidly expanding industry that is saturating big social media platforms – from X to Meta to YouTube – and defining a new era of content: decontextualised, addictive and international.
A Guardian analysis this year found that nearly 10% of YouTube’s fastest-growing channels were AI slop, racking up millions of views despite the platform’s efforts to curb “inauthentic content”."
This is a camera photo of a YouTube Short I published, playing back on my TV's YouTube app.
I do not look like this. I don't look this young and I'm not trying to. My face isn't remotely this smooth. My skin has blemishes, and freckles. My eyebrows are coarser.
YouTube's stupid AI upscaler has clearly made a pass, and I dislike it. I dislike it very much.
Nicolas Fressengeas
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‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/its-frightening-how-far-right-is-infiltrating-everyday-culture
**Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’**
‘It’s frightening’: How far right is infiltrating everyday culture
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/its-frightening-how-far-right-is-infiltrating-everyday-culture
**Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’**
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:
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La #privacy online si fa bollente: #Chrome inciampa nei test Digitain, #ChatGPT Atlas di #OpenAI è un disastro per mancanza di isolamento dati, lasciando #Tor Browser come re indiscusso 🔒. Passando a #Gmail, #Google regala un sogno atteso da anni: cambia il tuo username principale (max 3 volte + originale), con il vecchio che vira in alias eterno per email e accessi a #YouTube o Drive, ma attenzione al blocco di 12 mesi post-modifica 📧✨.
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