"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”
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YouTube is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore.
I’ve made YouTube videos for ten years, but I can’t do it anymore. I can no longer tolerate the abhorrent things YouTube and Google have gotten up to in the ...Josh Griffiths
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in reply to Strypey • • •on top of all this, I also feel YouTube's algorithm is less effective than it ever was.
All the videos now have clickbait titles & thumbnails, it's harder than ever to tell the slop apart from the good stuff.
I used to watch tons of YouTube in the past, but nowadays it happens regularly I open the site, scroll around a bit and close it again, because it all looks like trash to me.