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Ask HN: How do you avoid AI slop on YouTube?
These days I don't find it hard to run into AI generated videos on YouTube. I really mind this because I'm trying to find real information on topics - or at least someone who claims to be any kind of authority on a subject. But what I often run into is pure AI hallucination.
One such example is fake mental health videos. An instance:
"7 Dangerous Places Carl Jung Says You Must Avoid to Stay Mentally Strong" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wUdOVB-DQw
188k views, name recognition for credibility, but if you search for "7 Dangerous Places Carl Jung" on the Internet, Carl Jung didn't seem to have point out 7 of such places actually. But on YouTube, there at least 9 very similarly titled and thumbnailed video, from different channels, and different 7 of such places actually too!
So... how do you react to this phenomenon? Are you impacted by it? Might be that you haven't noticed it, or didn't seek out content that I have seen faked, like indigenous stories, space videos, psychology topics?
- minimaxir 1y agoCurate your feed.
- viraptor 1y agoDownvote what you clicked on accidentally. Otherwise... maybe just don't click on things that are obvious buzzfeed style bait? I mean, "N dangerous X" is such a common listicle spam that unless you know the author beforehand, why would you check it out? It's most likely going to be bad quality, AI or not.
- mmmlinux 1y agoyou can also go in to your history and delete things which seems to help accidental watches.
- shahbaby 1y agoIf I see AI slop, I block the channel
- gneuron 1y agoSubscribe to channels you trust, go to subscriptions tab first and foremost
- throwaway843 1y agoJust don't watch YouTube. Everything became junk when primed for 10-12, or 26-30 minutes - a race to the bottom. AI's a further nail into what YT was.
- marconey 1y agoThe best change I made on YouTube was to turn ‘Watch History’ and ‘Search History’ off With no history the algorithm can’t populate the Home tab or the Shorts tab and they are blank I just rely on the Subscriptions tab and searching
- colesantiago 1y agoDon't watch youtube?