Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

  • manualoverride@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’ve stopped watching YouTube shorts because of this, and the removal of the downvote count makes it harder to tell.

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      5 hours ago

      I will never pay for youtube while the downvote count is gone. Absolute anti consumer bullshit.

      I do use the add-on to bring them back, but fuck those assholes for doing this.

    • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      Why would you ever watch shorts in the first place? First thing I did when they appeared was make a ublock filter to hide them.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Considering a lot of the full YouTube videos are full of padding, taking over ten minutes to get to the point, I can understand why the shorts would have appeal.

        Problem is one way or another people are being incentivized to target a specific runtime regardless of whether they have the material to fit.