Oh my, color me surprised /s But maybe the implementation of this will be the final straw for me, and I’ll finally be able to commit to degoogling myself and delete my account and every app for good.
Oh, also the irony of a Youtube CEO talking about “a revolution” is not lost on anyone I hope. Eat the rich.
Yeah, maybe this will help me detox from my Youtube addiction.
Damn. I read the headline, and I almost thought it was a “Report AI Slop” button. What a feature that would be!
Was still thinking that until I read this comment. Tiktok is unwatchable (I mean more than before even) because of this. Luckily longer videos are still hard to produce with AI
That would be all of it.
“Creators led this revolution”
The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.
No-one knows chicken like chickens!
Oh boy, a button that generates ai shorts. Combining my 2 least favorite things about YouTube.
Buttons and shorts? Yeah, I also like watching bottomless people sometimes.
We are not the same, I usually choose to watch people with an excess amount of bottom.
The “Unhook” addon (increasingly required for Youtube now, in my opinion) will still completely block this as it blocks all shorts. Fuck shorts anyway. Also as TechnologyConnections pointed out in a recent video, the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway and allows you to subscribe to and follow the creators and topics you actually care about. Until we have a viable alternative to Youtube (and hopefully stuff like this will drive that to happen sooner rather than later) the other option is to stick to subscriptions as much as possible and only subscribe to creators that don’t abuse this or use shorts at all, preferably.
It absolutely blew my mind when TechnologyConnections shared the % of users who use the subscription page to get to their videos…
The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.
Me looking at your username
YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.
the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway
Though they are messing with that too, on mobile there is a “Most Relevant” section on top. Though thankfully they are videos from your subs.
…for now.The problem with the subscription feed is that it shows you every channel that you’re subscribed to. If I only want to see cooking videos for example, then it has to be through the standard YouTube recommendations page. What it needs is the ability to manually group channels and let us choose which set of channels we want to see.
YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.
“One slop please”
Shit
You know when gizmodo reads like harddrive that it’s some good shit lol
Hate slop, but I also approve of anything that makes it easier to wrest IPs away from Hollywood. Feeling conflicted and pessimistic.
