Just another of Donald’s grifts.

Hey, you’re welcome. If you’re interested I also did a full breakdown of the Fediverse on my YT channel earlier this year.

Fun fact, that’s one of my suggestions in my AI Slop avoidance video; That said, the new meta seems to be Right Click > Not Interested > Tell Us Why > I Don’t Like The Video.

udm14.com does not appear to be affected.

What’s wild is how anti-surveillance he’s been publicly, so if this is true, it’s yet another instance where he’s stated something publicly that is outright hypocritical. (Like the time he pretended to be ‘immunized’.)

But yeah. What an asshole.

Same, but I don’t think it will. Luckily YT is demonetizing AI slop channels, so people running those at least have to do more legwork now in order to make it worth it. Overall, it’s good that all indicators suggest YT is recognizing AI slop as a problem for their platform.

I made a video about training your personal version of the algo to suggest less of it, in fact, but since you can’t outright turn it off, there’s no magic bullet.

Same, taught myself HTML over a summer in high school. Literally went to a library and printed out a tutorial I found on the Internet.

I will say though, if you haven’t heard of it, there’s a small movement to get back to more organic web content. There’s the Fediverse for social media that isn’t algorithmically-weighted. There’s NeoCities for web pages. There’s Mojeek and Marginalia for search. (Marginalia is all non-commercial, so its search index is interesting.)

There’s still a lot of good out there.

100%

These changes will cause smaller creators to take more shortcuts, which will mean more use of AI, even if they’re not using it to generate the video itself.

As a creator myself, I don’t know what purpose this metric really serves in the end. I guess a one-second view tells me if a thumbnail image was effective, but apart from that, it’s just useless.

This was my thought as well.

People who think this way have clearly never cracked open a history book.

Unfortunately, they are. Christianity is a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ religion, which is why there are so many different sects and belief systems.

People enjoyed it for about five minutes and then they got bored.

Because it’s all the fucking same and these LLM’s are programmed as a race to the middle.

I know that the notion that accusations should be accompanied by evidence is considered unsavory to some, but if you go look at the many case files on the website of The Innocence Project, it becomes pretty clear why accusations shouldn’t be taken at face value absent evidence.

She is quite the troll, no doubt.

Sadly, you’re right. Different states handle it different ways and we’re still seeing disasters across the board.

I feel awful for the teachers I know. Kids apparently can’t even answer a question when it’s written on the board in front of them, and most can’t focus for more than 60 seconds.

No, Flock is very different, as there is no meaningful oversight or regulatory apparatus. (Unless you count lawsuits, which I don’t.) That’s certainly not the case with China.

Though the baseball bat analogy is attractive.

100% a wonderful furry little helper right there. Natural talent.

Yeah, that works too. Easy.

There are so many ways to handle this that don’t require $180,000 in spending. You could use a physical closet somewhere in the school, an old-ass lockable filing cabinet, or just require that they be left at home and punish offenders.

Jesus.

I bought a second laptop for running Linux in fall of 2024, and the timing feels so weirdly fortuitous.

I’m probably going to make a YT video on this later this week.

Do you mind if I use this info? Happy to credit you, just message me how you’d like it attributed and if you want me to shout anything out for you.