I'm surprised YouTube hasn't made a subscription service which filters out AI.
I think that could actually be fairly successful.
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I'd much rather pay for the wanky thumb nail filter. Fuck wanky thumb nails, avoid, at all costs!! Wankers🤷🏻♂️.
That would also be a good service
Wanky thumbnail remover 👀
Have you actually used this? Does it work??
Yes it's great. Recommended 👌
The problem with using this is that you can filter out shit content just by avoiding anyone who uses that sort of thumbnail (for the most part)
Yeah I just click the "don't show this channel" thing for those.
This one is good too. Cuts out sponsor segments and other crap from videos.
Good idea
They are the ones pushing AI shit none asked for, they don't care about users and they won't do this.
Would many ask for it? Of course. Many asked them to reintroduce dislikes, one of the best features of YouTube, but YouTube didn't do so.
There is a lot of really high-quality content on YouTube. It's up to us to find and share high-quality content and stop watching shit.
For example, there is a lot of truly good educational content, both well-known (the usual: 3Blue1Brown, PBS Space Time and a lot more), but also many lesser known ones that are very good (channels explaining how some things in video games work, made by game developers, for example).
There are however a lot of """educational""" channels that are just straight-up slop and misinformation. There have been for longer than this idiotic surge of AI slop. The usual flashy "top 10 things you didn't know" that are just 10 things you couldn't have known because they are false. Or just random "facts" written to make idiots feel smart.
For entertainment, it's kind of the same thing: there are genuinely good and funny channels and brain-rot channels that somehow manage to catch our attention for hours without being genuinely funny or even pleasant, like a hack of the brain.
We truly need to promote high quality and call out brainrot, in all forms, especially videos.
As for a genuine AI filter, you can't actually build one and the existing ones are scam (which I hear even some teachers and professors are relying on, I think they should be fired).