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https://gizmodo.com/googles-veo-3-is-already-deepfaking-all-of-youtubes-most-smooth-brained-content-2000606144
https://gizmodo.com/googles-veo-3-is-already-deepfaking-all-of-youtubes-most-smooth-brained-content-2000606144
https://gizmodo.com/googles-veo-3-is-already-deepfaking-all-of-youtubes-most-smooth-brained-content-2000606144
LostKittin700
TikTok is slop regardless.
Warune
It's all practice for political subterfuge
DreamingOfDistantShores
I thought "AI" tech was kinda neat at first glance, but after so much exposure and learning how despicable the learning (stealing) process is, I have a physical reaction to AI video and images of mild nausea in addition to the conceptual revulsion. I hate that -this- is what we're using our time, money, and inventiveness to bring into being as a species.
baals
You tube is quickly filling up with straight up ai trash and it keeps trying to shove it down your throat. I'm about one more undkibble fake AI voice actor qr code scam ad away from turn off YouTube for good
BixbyConsequence
Don't watch YouTube without ad blockers. Shields Up!!
MyVirginityIsGrowingBack
I kept zooming in on the play buttons!
SomethingOtherThanMyRealName
I downvote and block any account using AI.
cunninglinguist85
OnThisPlanetIDontWantToLiveAnymore
...to shreds you say.
pak0chu
In the grim darkness of the internet future, there's only war, between porn bots and crypto bros.
Ababybunny
I find it ironic when people refer to video games as mind rotting or pointless, like hating art will somehow make it go away. I went to college for fine art and the degree is worthless, but GTA is much less so
StarryPlough
The internet lost it's mind over 'hawk tuah' which was literally 10 a penny Instagram shorts slop. There were already thousands of vids of women saying the same attention seeking shit.
kurvarVillain
We need more of this:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
Surullian
Do you want to know what the most valuable scientific advancement for future totalitarians would be?
vissago
dead internet theory
kraetos10
we are cooked. we need some regulation on this asap.
sagejosh0
Oh good, we can speed to the bottom faster. I’m glad it can replicate the “asking random girl with big tits dumb questions” trend pretty well. Maybe the people who make that content might have to grow an additional brain cell.
Targe0
See, my Algorithm must be very well curated, because I never see any of this shit. All the stuff people complain about being on YouTube making the platform worse, I never see a single post of it.
redditmcredditface
Annnnnnd The Internet is dead.
spinbutton3
AI will never replace the canned fish taste test guy. (At least in my opinion) Thank you for the entertainment, Matthew Carlson!
RayneOfSalt
scare quotes? when did quote marks get renamed?
JabesMcJabesface
What does "smooth brain content" actually mean? Aside from just a term for stupid?
Noahbalboa82
My dream is that the AI slop content is almost entirely viewed by bots with AI comments. Not a human in sight. One big circle jerk
unluckyandbored
The Internet is dead and capitalism killed it.
TheobromineAddict
I wonder how long before The PornHub search function will allow you to describe a specific kink scenario and just generate it for you on the spot.
MightyIink
I've already narrowed down my subscriptions to a very select few at this point, if any more channels start using this I'm off the platform completely.
xtypo
Yea pretty much the same with me with EDM. Followed some of the few artists/DJs that I already knew but that's it. I refused to visit youtube's popular page or whatever it is...
HermitPrime0
@TheGreatMani This is the world you want.
TheGreatMani
The world I want is one where the virtualization of the cell has taken clinical research to productization times down from decades to weeks. You don't know what you're railing against you're simply scared and ignorant.
thekeyofe
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue, here. Are you saying that because AI has some good uses, we should ignore all of its bad uses, even though the bad outnumbers the good like 50 to 1? Because if that's what you're saying, it's not a good argument.
Zange0
Not defending any of their other arguments, but all AI is not the same. Cell simulation isn't going to be using the same logic as video slop.
Companies have effectively found a shiny new hammer and are going around smacking things to find what works.
Zoroasterisk
This person referenced the world of Ready Player One as something to be desired. We are so cooked
TheGreatMani
No, I referenced the full dive virtual reality of ready player one as a visual reference point to entice you to image the future we're all collectively barreling towards. Accept it or bury your head in the sand, idc.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
"It is inevitable! That is why I have to convince you that it's inevitable!" Clown shoes.
TheGreatMani
I don't have convince anyone of shit Lmao the tech advancement is happening in front of our faces.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
"Advancement" is that why most "AI" startups are bleeding money? Seriously show me where they are turning a real profit. Not propped up by grants and investors. But the LLMs actually making money. Especially the generative or conversational ones. There are places for it... limited places. Like healthcare to identify problems or describing pictures and such to blind people. That is where this tech has use.
HermitPrime0
He thinks a billion dollar company with a single employee is a reasonable future.
TheGreatMani
It is and I'm right.
dickdrizzle2
Oh don't worry, we got a wood chipper for people like you.
TheGreatMani
Holy shit dude did you just threaten my life because of some internet bs lol and it got upvoted. you people are feral.
cyno01
Am i just super old that im not on any video apps and still almost exclusively watch scripted programming? The only things i even go to youtube for are just trailers and clips from animated sitcoms for comment replies on here and reddit.
CyanideBreathMint
Only time I access youtube is to help diagnose/repair something that I am not familiar with. And recently, it has bees ass for that.
cyno01
Seriously, not that im on some high horse watching only prestige TV, heres my watch history, go ahead and mock me. But i still feel like ANY actual TV is better than algorithmic brainrot video clips on my phone.
DesolateMirror
youtube shorts, instagram and tiktok have been AI slop for a while now
OvertleyBadpickuplines
I don't watch anyones channel I am not subscribed to. I have only subscribed to 2 new channels in 3 years, and only because the creators I watched suggested them.
CPTBRUMBL3Z
Kidding me? Most of that shit was AI slop when an real human made it because nothing actually intelligent would have.
ThrockmortonTheSkateboarder
LinkedIn as well.
Cinammontoastcrunch
Any short that isn't a content creator themselves talking about something, I skip or "don't recommend this"
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
Same. Sadly though, these things work by majority behaviour/vote and the majority of people is stupid. So our silent protest will fizzle and die while the dumb masses decide the shape of the future.
Cinammontoastcrunch
Yeah, but at least I can go the rest of the shorts session seeing fewer garbage shorts. I really wish it would stop feeding me hard right wing content that I've never interacted with
Frankasti
I completely ignore shorts now. But when it started I spent a few hours blocking tons of right wing content. I watch almost exclusively science and skateboard stuff, but YT still thought I'd like misogyny and anti-trans shit. Fuck off YT.
unluckyandbored
That's because that format is pretty much tailor-made to rot people's brains, and AI slop is great at that.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
Even without the ai, it's a bunch of unoriginal dipshits making lipsynch videos of already popular videos.
velicitia
thankfully the voice and cadence is still just that little bit off .
the ones I hate more are the thieves who put two vids side-by-side.
ThatRaccoonGuy
The people who literally just record somebody else's video with themselves making faces and pointing at the screen like that counts as commentary
Freak0zoid
And I don't watch them
cepacolusmaximus
this level of deep fake is new, though
themigbro
75% of the internet is bots already, with this AI stuff real users will become extinct after the endless generations of spam that is about to drop.
seheim
youtube "long form" too, though not as pervasive
usingYourMomAsAHat
Not just shorts. My YT feed, once a pretty decent place is now completely unusable. I've moved over to odysee which isn't terrible yet atleast
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Even stuff that’s perfectly normal and good now has AI slop title pages so you see some totally fake image that’s super uncanny valley and that turns you off from the whole thing.
IAmGodot
The AI has ingested so much TikTok slop that it's producing TikTok slop. Which will get ingested by AI. An ouroboros of bad content.
CapitalNick
Inbred AI.
nclu
Human centipede ouroboros
TheGoudaKaramazov
Gah. Horrifyingly well put.
33Fox
Dead internet theory getting closer and closer...
jackal696
Haven't you finished the internet yet, too slow
mouthfullofpebbles
As a millennial with boomerish knowledge of internet, I already kind of feel that it is, The last years I can't seem to find anything anymore except from AI ads from Temu when I try to find information about an art piece that I know exists in a museum or a specific archaeology article that I read when it was published. It's impossible to find a single real person swatch of a makeup product, just the same three pics from the brand itself. It feels... Empty? Like I'm looping the same page?
theirongiant74
Good the modern internet deserves to die for the most part.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Should have been taken behind the shed 5 years ago...
thedarkcanuck
Nuke it and rebuild it from scratch with lessons learned, I say
rebelcoil
Guess who will rebuild it and have even more power then?
comacomacomacomachameleon
unfortunately Internet 2.0 will require you to authenticate with your real identity to do everything. It's the only way to combat bots.
rihani3
Finally pulled myself together yesterday and set up Firefox and DuckDuckGo on all of my devices. So sick of Google's BS. Why the fuck would I want to waste loads of electricity on AI that i CANNOT trust injected into every search? Fuck off...
DClaub88
Firefox steals all your info.. go with Brave
ourari
Nonsense. Firefox is still fine, it was a communication error.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/after-controversi">data">https://www.pcmag.com/news/after-controversial-faq-change-mozilla-reassures-users-about-their-data
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/
DClaub88
Disagree
Onlyhereforthelaughs
In my teens I was just swapping between Chrome and Firefox, but I've been in Chrome mode for years now... Looking at the coming swap REAL soon.
JonSnowAKAAegonTargaryen
That is what it took? When Google declared war on adblock I went Firefox since they don't snitch on me for using an adblock.
rihani3
I have been using Firefox on my main devices for decades. What i meant is that i now finally got around putting it on ALL my devices. And swapped away from regular Google search.
Kingstad
I started using Ecosia
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
Just avoid Ecosia's image search lately. AI shit everywhere and I do not know if it's Ecosia's fault or just how much of a mess the net is now that its that much harder to search and parse.
Punkrockpearl
Ecosia is my search engine. Firefox is my browser usually...agreed that Google (and AI in general) is bs.
olipro85
I have never left firefox in twenty years. Why people did that ?
Zoroasterisk
I worked a job where Firefox was banned, so I stupidly migrated over to chrome, so could read ebooks while I was supposed to be working
ProjectDA
my next phone will be a pixel, for the sole reason it has the best custom OS support. ill flash that thing as soon as im home.
dashers
Add UBlock Origin to Firefox (also avoid in Firefox Android). Jack up the tracking protection in Firefox, and set your browser to delete all cookies in exit (you'll need to relogin to sites when you start again, you can add exceptions). For the more nerdy, add temporary containers extension to desktop.
nothingunused
I've been a Firefox hawker for years, but I recently decided Brave might be a better option, after Mozilla's Google-esque changes to their vibe.
ourari
The Firefox thing is mostly overblown. https://www.pcmag.com/news/after-controversial-faq-change-mozilla-reassures-users-about-their-data
nothingunused
I don't know. Saying "we can no longer say we won't sell your info, but it's totally because of some legal wording shenanigans, trust us" doesn't give me a warm fuzzy.
PimpinKen
For those truly wanting privacy, I would like to remind everyone that TOR with a reputable VPN exists and is very helpful
GrosseChung
I know you just started, but do you have any idea how to set up autofill info for duck? Google has this helpful thing where anytime it detects an email/name/address field, it offers to fill it with info from a profile that I made. I can’t seem to get duck to do it, and I have the option turned on in the settings
Oatmealman1
I use opera gx on my PC and phone, set to ddg for search. And for certain sites that won't work in opera, I use brave.
hotaru251
UBlock origin & Enhancer for Youtube.
The extentions make YT manageable & fk ads to em for their shitty actions :)
Ivain
Yeah as subsidiaries of Google I don't see them as a separate entity anymore. A single one-off donation through a different platform is more than most creators will ever get from me through ads even if I watch them for the rest of my life, so if I find anyone I watch regularly I support them like that and just keep adblock on.
pareidoliaperson
My Galaxy s23 ultra's UI was fine as fuck. Now updated to be shit I wouldn't touch with a ten feet stick. And annoying AI app prompts in the useless places like the unlock screen. Fucking bloatware shit and now this.
TheGoudaKaramazov
Yessss. Same phone here, same sentiments about that stupid update.
MajorShouTucker
Pro tip: you can merge the notifications and system panels back together by sliding the panels all the way down then clicking on the pen in the top right then going to panel settings and clicking together instead of separate. Doesn't fix the rest of it, but that one was the most egregious change to me.
infamousubject16
You are a saint, I hated having this so much
BearInABallgown
Holy shit thank you! That has been driving me nuts! Bless you internet-stranger!
xtypo
Bloatware? Get an "unlocked" phone next time! I'm currently rocking a Samsung S25 Ultra with the One UI 7 update, and I have none of the mobile carrier's bloatware.
iConfirmAnythingAndEverything
If you're in Canada, telecoms are required by law to sell phones unlocked and any sold before the law came into effect are required to unlock phones for free on request.
xtypo
Man... Canada > USA
DorkJedi
for a while now, just about any civilized country > USA
ourari
Nice! For anyone else interested in finding alternatives for Big Tech services, try https://alternative">.net">https://alternativeto.net and https://privacyguides.org
Evilbeavers
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FestusMA
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Pevans765
Thanks!
ourari
My pleasure :)
MatrimBloodyCauthon
Beep.
ourari
Boop.