Watch what your kids are watching, it is most likely ai dog shit. It messes with their minds.
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Well so are my friends in their mid 20s to early 30s.
The amount of people I see who are the "iPad kids" they constantly scream about is incredibly high
Keep an eye on your screen time folks.
Get out there and touch grass, the world is waiting!
And 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s. Age doesn't make you immune to ai slop scrolling
Also, being glued to it too. Limit their time for best results.
no thank you. I will turn them into doves instead
Yup. This is, in part, why I leave some of my mistakes in my videos. That's the easiest way to prove to people that my content isn't AI without arguing about it.
me
You identify as a mistake in their videos?
Shit I fucked up the comment
It’s ok, don’t worry about it
Tiktok is all slop. AI is irrelevant.
This just in, more trash found at the garbage dump.
Why do these people having such a hard time coming up with articles? YouTube ones? Like as in 20% of 60% TikTok slop is YouTube slop? Does 20% of 40% YouTube slop?
Ps. I know what they mean. They should have just said “while, YouTube is 20%” instead YouTube ones. punctuations. Makes a huge difference.
60% of tiktok. Videos are slop. AI is YouTube, 21% is slop. One's AI is slop tube.
Wow.
It's that low?
Genuinely surprised by that.
It's probably because the ai slop gets disproportionately promoted to the top, and once you accidentally watch one, that's it, the algorithm decides that's what you like now
The ones that annoy me are “this is the 2027 Canyonero!” and it’s obviously an AI generated car. At this point I have a couple channels I can rely on and block or ignore the rest.
There is a car rental company that has been pushing legitimately awful AI ads on YouTube. Congrats, I probably wasn’t going to rent a car from you. But now I will specifically avoid your company if I ever need to rent a car.
Name and shame. Is it a national brand or is it a local exotic type one?
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This seems to imply that before genai TikTok had quality videos and not handcrafted slop?
I used to get a lot of the same AI panic-buy these items now for the coming economic collapse vids. 47 different channels saying "when the shelves are empty these are the 9 items nobody thinks to get" and it's the same AI images of some dipshit in fatigues
On Youtube, there are a multitude of new "hosts" like C.S. Lewis (a dead author), sitting at a desk and spewing almost legible gibberish (in an AI voice resembling their own) vaguely referring to their favorite topic. Also psychologists, historians, and more. I've started to look more and more for videos over three years old if I want a decent history program.
Some are hours long. More and more, every day.
The internet is experiencing a sloppy death.
That's a slippery slop argument /j
Is that of newly uploaded content or overall? Because the latter is terrifying considering YouTube is 20+ years of content.
I mean if you go to obscuretube or whatevs most vids are juat people doing random atuff so slightly surprising too. Guess most videos are actuallt just hidden tho... wonder how many are private. Also shorts probably make up a lot of that stadistic.
Ones?
Fuck AI. I'm buying all my shit from the meek from now on.
for the meek shall inherit the reference bonuses
I'm using various front ends for YouTube on different devices. Are there any that filter out AI like they do ads?
Oooh I would love it if that was like a SponsorBlock category or something.
Slopblock
.. at least that's what it should be called if it exists
What are they classifying as ai slop? Cause in YouTube there is a lot of low effort content that aren't slop, and there is also low effort content narrated by ai that I'd consider slop, and then there is actual ai slop
Everything produced using any amount of generative AI is slop, without exception. Hope this clears up the confusion.
Of those 500 videos, 294 were classified as AI slop, a term Kapwing defines as videos with obvious AI-generated visuals or low-quality compilations using clearly AI-generated scripts and voiceovers. The 59 per cent rate is roughly three times the proportion found on YouTube in the same study, making TikTok’s default experience dramatically worse for anyone opening the app for the first time.
I looked up the article the og source referenced, which does say what they defined as ai slop.
The original article isn't helpful because statistics don't mean anything if they don't also define what they're measuring, and they cut the definition short.
most of the shorts are slop.
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