• Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Tldr: youtube forced ai into video monitoring and it keeps killing videos it shouldn’t, so instead of saying Ai is bad they’re blaming af blockers because why not lie when there’s no repercussions?

    YouTube views are dropping because they are using AI to vet and cull age innappropriate content from minors. the problem is the ai is very bad at its job and marks way too many videos as not advertiser friendly, which effectively kills YouTube promoting that video in feeds. this is the default view for new accounts, so you have to specifically turn off parental controls to see a normal feed. this started happening about 4 months ago. a number of channels I watch have made comments about this, including Redlettermedia

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      youtube forced ai into video monitoring and it keeps killing videos it shouldn’t

      That explains why sometimes the video stops and I get error message. I thought it may have to do with switching the script blockers on or off.

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t understand:

      • What is ‘AI in video monitoring?’

      • The article mentions literally nothing about this, so where did that come from?

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        8 hours ago

        the article provides one “official” explanation for views dropping, and i am citing an alternative explanation from the perspective of creators themselves who see the analytical data and the judgments being past on their videos.

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              4 hours ago

              Because when you comment, “TLDR” under an article, it’s assumed to be a “TLDR” of the article. It also doesn’t make sense to say TLDR was a summary of your long comment because you didn’t make a long comment to summarize, you just jumped right in with TLDR.

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      10 hours ago

      Not saying I don’t believe that’s what’s happening, but the article mentions nothing about any sort of YouTube AI interference.

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        4 hours ago

        Because the AI integration is a recent change unrelated to this data. The commenter is pulling it out of their ass.

        If we’re just throwing out theories, I’d propose it was the dramatic increase in ads with a decrease in quality of content being served by the algorithm. The only thing that gets front page access is clickbait.

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      5 hours ago

      Source: my ass

      This is not at all what happened. Maybe try reading the article next time.