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You can see how Google rolls with how they deleted old Gmail accounts - years of notice, lots of warnings, etc. They finally started deletions recently, and I h
by asah 8mo ago
You can see how Google rolls with how they deleted old Gmail accounts - years of notice, lots of warnings, etc. They finally started deletions recently, and I haven't heard a whimper from anyone (yet).
- flux3125 8mo agoThe problem is that some content creators have already passed away (and others will pass away by then), and their videos will likely be deleted forever.
- dessimus 8mo agoMonuments erode away and memories of those enshrined are lost time as well, nothing lasts forever.
- bentcorner 8mo agoI met a user from an antique land Who said: Two squares of a clip of video Stand in at the end of the search. Near them, Lossly compressed, a profile with a pfp, whose smile, And vacant eyes, and shock of content baiting, Tell that its creator well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these unclicked things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the title these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, Top Youtuber of All Time: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and like and subscribe!" No other video beside remains. Round the decay Of that empty profile, boundless and bare The lone and level page stretch far away.
- donkeyboy 8mo agoThis is amazing.
- tempestn 8mo agoWould've been, once. These days I assume bentcorner asked their favourite LLM to generate a poem parodying Ozymandias about once-popular youtube videos.
- fragmede 8mo agoor you could get over it and still enjoy it anyway. Like how Coke Zero tastes.
- 1bpp 8mo agoIt doesn't feel like it at all (I'd never expect an LLM to say 'pfp' like that, or 'lossly[sic] compressed', ASCII instead of fancy quotes) but who knows at this point. I may have gotten incredibly neurotic about online text since 2022.
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- bentcorner 8mo agoNope, I hand wrote this. I actually considered using an LLM but in my experience they "warp" the content too much for anything like this. The effort required to get them to retain what I would consider something to my taste would take longer than just writing the poem myself. (Although tbf it's been awhile since I've asked a LLM to do parody work, so I could be wrong)
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- herodoturtle 8mo agoLike tears in rain <3
- spriggancg 8mo agolet's see what will last longer over the ages : engraved stone or google?
- georgefrowny 8mo agoDepends on the pH, probably.
- ralusek 8mo agomono no aware
- zaik 8mo agoHopefully the deletion will not affect videos with thousands of views, even if the account is lost.
- loloquwowndueo 8mo ago[flagged]
- CuriouslyC 8mo agoGoog is 100% not going to delete anything that is driving any advertising at all. The videos are also useful for training AI regardless, so I expect the set of stuff that's deleted will be a VERY small subset. The difference with email is that email can be deduplicated, since it's a broadcast medium, while video is already canonical. I expect rather than deleting stuff, they'll just crank up the compression on storage of videos that are deemed "low value."
- shevy-java 8mo agoThat may be, but I assume for videos that had some viewership base, there may be a consideration. E. g. if a video was viewed 20 million times, it may be worth more than one that was viewed only 5 times.
- eMPee584 8mo agoI've stumbled upon very valuable content with very low view numbers - the algorithms spiral around spectacularity and provocation, not quality or insight.
- coldtea 8mo ago>videos that had some viewership base, there may be a consideration Those would be the worst of the lot regarding how valuable they are historically for example. Engaging BS content...
- 1313ed01 8mo agoDropbox seem to be doing the same thing. After years of whining about my 2TB above limit I recently received a mail with a deadline to delete my files or they will.