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For any kind of online entertainment really.

The overwhelming majority of content on Youtube is also plagued by AI.

You're 6 minutes in a documentary about Russo-Ottoman wars and only then you start noticing something's wrong, paintings are made up, the voice sounds similar to voices of other videos and the script has an odd non-human character to it.

Then you dig into it, and indeed it's a bunch of crap prompts glued together on top of some lame ai-generated internet research.

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Prominent and formerly good youtuber Hank Green was just caught reading an AI script. In a video about the bouba/kiki effect he just read out something like "You're right to push back on this. If you'd like, I can reword this..." and didn't even flinch, didn't edit the sentence out, because his brain has been rotted by AI use.

I think it is just natural end of certain type of creators. They start as single person, slowly get maybe small team to help with filming and editing. And then when you need to keep producing content the script writers come. And now they are just face reading whatever is given to them. And then well there is to speed up the slowest part of process script and custom art. AI enters to this. And now they are already too far gone to care.

> he just read out something like "You're right to push back on this. If you'd like, I can reword this..." and didn't even flinch

Can you please provide sources for this? My understanding is that he used the expression "I appreciate the pushback" in a context in which it made sense (responding to criticism), and people flagged that it sounded LLM-like.

There’s some poetry seeing people complaining about how LLM provide unreliable information in a confident tone, who then go on to share incorrect information in a confident tone.

No passion, no independent research, only the drive to make money with as little effort as possible

It's funny cause on the embedded youtube app they show you like 30 second clip and in about 10-15 seconds AIsm makes it pretty clear it's just going to be a grating voice over with horrible prose.

YouTube essays have been slop for a while though. Before AI it was just people reading the Wikipedia page on the topic.

The point is that now it's dramatically worse by volume

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