YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

    • stickly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      Ah yes capitalist propoganda like …scrolls most popular… Countering coronavirus disinformation, explaining vaccines and the dangers of the antivax movement, the physical limits disproving the infinite growth lie of capitalism… Yeah, there’s a lot of science fiction/fantasy topics but those are generally what gets views.

      If they are pushing propoganda, they’re pretty shit at it and should probably be spending their money on manosphere podcasts instead. Honestly you should be encouraging such inefficient efforts.

      This is such a stellar example of the cold war tankie mindset. Anything a capitalist funds must be evil; anything from the west is a lie; it’s my duty to counter everything coming out of their mouths; blah blah blah.

        • stickly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 hours ago

          Ah yes, the evil liberal-capitalist climate solutions: shilling solar panels, agriculture tech, electrification, more efficient production of cement and steel

          Nothing like the glorious socialist solutions of the proletariat: Chinese solar panels, Chinese agriculture tech, Chinese electrification, more efficient production of Chinese cement and steel

          Turns out that every productivist ideology imagines their band-aid efficiency gains will hand wave what is essentially a growth and finite resource problem. So yeah I agree with you on some level, the free market won’t magically save us any more than an AES state market. You’re just mad because you’re hearing it from a video sponsored by the bad team

        • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          71·
          12 hours ago

          I prefer slop to live in its own technical box of generative AI crap instead of broadening the word to the point it’s just another meaningly pejorative like sus.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            10 hours ago

            I know damned well that the term slop has been used since the 90s for food and at least the late 00s for other things. The term shovelware slop comes to mind. Note I don’t remember the 90s I was a month old when it ended but I did watch a lot of 90s media so yeah.

          • el_abuelo@programming.devEnglish
            81·
            12 hours ago

            You are aware of course that slop existed before generative AI and there are other things that are slop.

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
            67·
            12 hours ago

            Knowing how extremely unscientific Kurzgesagt is the accusation of them using AI to create slop scripts is most likely true.

            Seriously can anyone the Dyson Sphere video and not come away thinking this is written by morons who have no idea what they’re talking about?

            But you say the word “science” a bunch of times with a nice looking, animation as if we have self-replicating robots already, and every Liberal will buy it.