Wondering if there’s some sort of big list of channels whose videos are known to be mostly or entirely AI stuff, whether the text, the narrator or other details. It’s really annoying to start watching and noticing something “off”, only to check the channel and notice that it’s been pumping out 25-30min videos every 2 days for the past year.
It’s easy to avoid the AI animation stuff, but it’s annoying when you’re looking for history, psychology, science and other stuff.
No possible way it could be maintained. Youtube allows anyone with an email address to make a channel, and AI tools are cheap or free, and people can make bank by getting their shitty AI-narrated fake documentaries in front of enough people, so there are thousands popping up and getting suggested on people’s feeds every single day. Most originate in other countries and most don’t even succeed so it’s just millions of dead channels with a few shitty AI clips, with fresh new ones popping up all the time.
I also don’t know how you could prevent abuse of such an app from users reporting channels that just talk about AI or even completely bogus campaigning from hateful groups.
Just find channels you like and subscribe to them. Anything else is a losing battle.
Why not try?
That’s like asking why not try making an email blacklist of spammers. A bot can make accounts faster than any humans can keep up. You need other methods to handle the problem.
Except unlike emails who are the ones who are reaching out to you, you’re the one who would have to engage with the youtube accounts. And reading is faster than watching.
It’s rather annoying watching a video with an interesting premise from a channel that seems to have a lot of engagement and subscribers until you notice several minutes in that the content is full of filler and is generally just a waste of time, and of course when you check the channel is full of mass-generated videos. If there was a list we could just quickly check if something is already confirmed to be AI using the Find function rather than wasting time finding if it’s legit or not. Even if the list is just those of the well-known ones who you are more likely to come across.
If there was such a project I would gladly contribute.
Add an AI content filter to Sponsor Block. The architecture already exists and I believe it’s open source so you can contribute. Once the feature is added, it’s crowd sourced to mark the spots in the video where it is AI generated content. Pure AI channels would just have the whole video skipped tho 🤷
But more likely, the maintainers will tell you it’s a dumb idea and to just not watch bad AI content LOL
You’d be better off asking for a whitelist of channels that aren’t.
If it works the same, I’m all for it
I’m not sure, but I use an addon that lets me block channels as I come across them.
What add-on is that?
I don’t know. Let me ask chatgpt.
Blocktube.
It’s really getting on my last nerve as well. I get excited to see new content only to hear the robot voice that lets me know I can’t trust anything in the video.
I need to look into Nebula or something else. There’s still as many great channels as ever on YT, but they just get so hard to find with all the endless BS now.
That’s odd, I almost never see them. Pretty much the only time I see bad AI videos even recommend are when the Google AI result references some slop with a few hundred views as a source.
I’m typically searching from within the app, and it’s mainly when I’m looking for more generic content like histories of civilizations or unusual astronomy facts, and what was the Triassic like. That probably makes it easier to generate videos since they’re broader in scope. When I search more specific things, I will typically get better results.
But I search the more generic stuff when I want to relax for a bit or go to sleep, so it also feels more obnoxious to get made up stuff because then I have to keep clicking on new videos to get something actually made by a person because I’m trying to relax, not work.
Unfortunately, not YouTube channels.
It includes some YouTube channels.
Very small channel list, but a start
I guess you’ll have an ever growing list of millions accounts. I don’t think there is a solution to this, and that’s why I don’t watch YouTube anymore.
My YouTube only shows videos from channels I subscribed to. And I don’t think I subscribed to any new YouTube channels since AI even became a thing. How are people having this problem?
Do you browse the homepage or something? And if so why?
I always browse in private mode or with NewPipe on Android, checking what shows up on the sidebar recommendation to find new stuff
Fyi, you can have a psuedo-subscribe list on NP, even without an account.
I know, I have some channels there, but I still check out stuff I’m not subbed to
That’s like walking into the shit store and asking if they sell anything that isn’t shit.
Sure, they do, but your going to have to paw through a bunch of shit to find it.
I find it so crazy that there’s no “Ignore this channel” feature on Youtube.
Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to prevent people from blocking or ignoring channels they hate?
Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to prevent people from blocking or ignoring channels they hate?
Sociopaths (euphemized as “marketers”) whose entire business model is based on forcing you to see things you hate.
“Don’t recommend this channel” feature exists and works.
There is, but only if you’re logged in, which I almost never am
