@rl_dane@polymaths.social once the needle goes in, they're hooked.

#ArtOfTheDrugDeal

I've also noticed that there are a lot of videos where the narrator is clearly LLM -driven making everything hard to listen to forcing you to move on

@rl_dane

#LLM #AI #slop #hallucinated

@dendrobatus_azureus

Ooof, I hadn't gotten that far into his new stuff. That's just sad.

@michal

I guess. I'd like to point out some examples of relatively large youtubers that are anti-AI, but... well... Real Engineering? Can't think of too many. :P

@michal

I'm happy to not know what that is, I guess. 😄

@rl_dane@polymaths.social

Gary Slops

@federicoschonborn

Indeed. I'm not saying that the videos themselves are slop, from what I can tell (except probably the thumbnails, I dunno, I didn't look that close, because, well, EWWW. XD )

But the subject matter definitely is. :P

@rl_dane was recently migrating subscriptions from Grayjay to NewPipe because the former turned out to be fashware. It will be a long process.

One of the first things I resubbed to, because an interesting-looking video was in my home feed, was Premature Abstraction. But the video content felt strangely anemic, and then the sponsor came on… "writing code at work has never been easier thanks to LLMs…" Yeah. Closed the video and unsubbed on the spot.

I think I'm okay with this being a long manual process. I had a lot of imported, dormant subs. It's a good time to clean up.

@MaddieM4

Ooof... I'm back on FUTO keyboard because heliboard is still kinda beta-quality. 😳 🤦‍♂️

I mean, at least it's not GBoard, but. 🙃

I'm not always the best about "dogfooding" my morals, but I'm definitely trying.

@rl_dane It's all just getting by and doing what we can, because the jerks move fast and reacting takes time.

@MaddieM4

🫶

Ever so much "move fast* and break things**."

* faster than regulatory updates or the fragile senile dorks in government can ever get aboard the cluetrain

** break society itself, of course.

We're suffering from a real FAFO imbalance.

Techbros are doing so much FOing, and have had so little FAing. 😂

@rl_dane I suspect there's a certain amount of YT algorithmic manipulation going on on the backend in studio too. (I don't think Gary Explains is unique). From what little I've seen online you're encouraged to use suggested "engagement" titles and A/B test those as well as rotate thumbnails.

I'm sure there's a lot more going on under the hood that viewers don't see from YT analytics.

@joltrast

Hadn't thought about that, but yeah, not surprising. I have noticed video titles changing from the initial title pretty often lately. Across many channels, that is.