Technology

Much the same as blockchain - it could have been exciting and fun, but it was immediately put to work to exploit people, and in the end that's what the tools effectively were.

There you go.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

This may not be a cure-all, but it's pretty comprehensive.

When did they shill for fossil fuel? Not saying it didn't happen, just wondering

Use Firefox + uBlock Origin on desktop and on mobile. Only watch YouTube via Firefox. Never see these bullshit ads again.

Currently adblocking is winning the war of the technical evolution of control vs. resistance.

I think the topics they make videos on these days feel more gimicy and click baity so I kinda avoid them

If you actually watch the video that's not what they're talking about. They are talking about how it's difficult to fact check information in a world of AI misinformation.

I always find it's easier to know what a video is about if I actually watched the video. It's just this little life hack I've come up with.

I don't think they are techno-solutionists but that sometimes is the vibe they give off.

I just think there's some directions they won't go thanks to the threat of capital.

Techno-solutionist lol. The power of labels eh?

They don't say that, though?

They say things like "with effort, we can solve climate change, or minimise its effects."

Which is very different. And personally, I hate over the top doomerism where everyone says everything is fucked beyond repair all the time.

There's nothing helpful about giving up though is there.

And we could stop climate change, it's entirely possible, presumably people don't want to die so they will take action but they probably not going to start to act until climate change becomes more apparent, that's depressing but that's human nature. Humans have a long history of making radical changes at the last minute, e.g the cold war.

We like to go right up to the cliff edge but we tend not to take the final step.

After all even China is cleaning up its act and they're the least likely to be cooperative so if even they're doing something about it there's hope.

We will not solve it, it's way too late for that. Still, every 0.01°C additional warming counts. People not born yet will suffer more from everything we don't do now. So, rolling on our backs and giving up is not helping at all. Going vegan is a easy first step to make a difference. Start blowing up pipelines after that. :)

capitalism will solve climate change

Tangential, but thats what disgusted me about the Osaka world expo. The theme was sustainability so you had fossil fuel companies presenting wildly impractical "solutions" and art projects. The message was "things are under control, continue sleepwalking into oblivion"

Have you heard of the experiment with swimming rats and how much longer they swam when given hope? We need hope to survive.

Though they don't say we will solve it, but that we can solve it if we start now.

I've been watching that channel for years it's very high quality.

What do you think AI voices were trained off of?

The video gives an elaborate description on their evaluation of “AI” and it’s influence on the Internet at large. And then they conclude with “we’ll continue like before” directly contradicting the title.

You missed the entire point of the video.

The claims are simple:

• in order to make this type of videos, they need to be able to reliable fact check

• data on the internet is increasingly polluted by AI slop, making it harder to distinguish fact from slop

• for now, they have no choice but to continue while being extra vigilant... but eventually, if things do not change, they will be unable to perform

It's the exact same situation about climate change... we need to act now, most of us will suffer otherwise but for now we continue on living while trying to adjust where we can (recycling, reusing, less/no meat, etc) even if we know that will not be enough long term.