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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better. The YouTube algorithm favors low effort frequent posting, so AI slop is perfect for the platform.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every algorithm is based around frequent posting and farming engagement. Everything is optimized to ruin the internet.

[–] qt0x40490FDB@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago

It’s almost as if there is a financial incentive to enshitify everything.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It will never get better.

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not until we make our own video hosting site - with blackjack and hookers!

[–] Laser@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean peertube exists, and it actually integrates into the fediverse...

[–] nocturne@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago

But does it integrate blackjack and hookers?

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

In fact, let’s forget the video hosting site.

[–] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait that means YouTube might be dying? Im actually mildly happy with that, maybe it ruins their Monopoly and opens the web for smaller niche platforms (not sure how they would survive AI but if they don't reward low effort high freq it might be something?)

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

For it to die there has to be an alternative for the content. I don't see anything that could replace it at the moment.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Pornhub

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Peertube comes to mind.

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

I tried to upload a video to a Peertube instance once.
Took me a solid hour to figure out how to do that.
The link to it 404d the next day.

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@olio.cafe 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Peertube still needs improvements to start looking attractive.

While it is technically federated, using it still feels like it's just a bunch of small disjointed sites.

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 8 points 1 day ago

That's fair. I just hope mentioning and drawing more people to the platform helps (or provides incentive) for it to improve.and become a viable YouTube replacement. Or at least a supplement to something better than YouTube.