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.
If there is one, I worry that it won’t possibly be able to keep up. Youtube is actively encouraging AI generated content now.
Unfortunately, I think a whitelist is the only option here. Subscribe to specific accounts that you know are legitimate, and use some kind of desktop app for Youtube instead of browsing the site, so you don’t get AI generated recommendations after the video.
I ended up subscribing to Nebula.tv last week, hoping to avoid youtube altogether. It’s definitely missing a few categories of content (in fact it’s mainly video essays and LegalEagle), but that’ll be my starting place for videos from now on.
Imagine gobbling algorithmslop
I’m not sure, but I use an addon that lets me block channels as I come across them.
What add-on is that?
Blocktube.
I don’t know. Let me ask chatgpt.
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
Well if people will watch ai video like normal one, and watch adds the same, why would youtube care? Only if ai stuff we dislike, than youtube will do something about it.
Not like we should use youtube at the first place… Lbry is much better platform, better for us, because:
On lbry we are free to upload whatever we want and noone can ban me from platform for reviling all epstine files for example. While on youtube people are banned and shadow banned all the time for speaking about covid or any other “unvanted” topic. Lbry is like this because it works like torrent so it gives us power, not them. And by them i mean big corporations or better sad powerful individuals…
I wouldn’t expect such a list to come from YouTube but rather be a thing you load into Ublock Origin or other ad blocking service. I am pretty sure there are extensions for Chrome and FireFox specifically to block AI generated elements, too, that may have what OP is looking for.
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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.
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?
“Don’t recommend this channel” feature exists and works.
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.
The one who wants to decide what will be on your home page… On lbry you have that opcion to ignore or block channels you dont like.
There is, but only if you’re logged in, which I almost never am
Unfortunately, not YouTube channels.
It includes some YouTube channels.
Very small channel list, but a start
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.
Exactly my take. Just stop watching that trash.
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
I have some DNS blocklists for blocking Google outright that take care of the problem pretty well.
