🧵 You've heard of Fake News, but have you heard of Fake Hooves? Disordered discourse isn't just about a system that is about political impact, but also how the system itself is gamed for profit. First, let me introduce you to The Hoof GP:
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I follow The Hoof GP (makes me very glad I only have sheep) and I've been fed some of the fake/mimic content-it's very obviously poor quality & designed to be as extreme as possible
OMFG, I love that channel! The cake rescues almost more than the debunking stuff, but of course the debunking stuff is more important. (I just like pretty cakes and don't know how to make them. ^^ )
Graeme Parker is Scottish cattle hoof trimmer who has turned his work into a successful YouTube channel, where he demonstrates his (often messy) work trimming the hooves of cattle across Scotland https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHoofGP
He posts multiple videos a week, with hundreds of thousands of views, generating a nice income and allowing him to sell merchandise and his book to people who are really into that sort of thing. But while watching those videos you'll start to get grotesque algorithmic recommendations.
Can verify this is happening in this specific example. Love the braw Scot farrier lad whose geekery is making ouchie cattle feel better, but any other channel I see with hoof trimming gets muted.
For example, this video from "The Hoof Doctor", which shows a cow's hoof covered in maggots, and other videos that shows nails, screws, mealworms, and all sorts of horrible things, so what's going on?
What's happening here is an attempt to capture the algorithmic recommendations from the genuine hoof cleaning videos by creating fake hoof cleaning videos, where cow's legs, probably (hopefully) from a butcher, are dressed up and cleaned, all in an attempt to generate income from views.
There's several channels like this that have popped up in the last few months, clearly mimicking a popular style of video, something that's not unique to hoof cleaning videos. For example, fake restoration videos are also trying to capture the algorithm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDmt0N0Buc4
So, my kid 8 and is a builder and has been coming to me obsessed with videos he's watched that are essentially perpetual motion machines made with cardboard/kids toys. Very frustrated when easy things he sees aren't recreated. And i just realized that this whole part of the internet exists
So what we see are financial incentives and algorithmic recommendations acting as drivers to create fake content. While this content doesn't have a political impact, it does flood the internet with fake garbage, contributing to the enshitification of the internet, fill our feeds with fakes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsy2mZkGm3c
The self-reinforcing loop of crazy + fake will become insane in the coming years. AIs have no connection to the real world, they can't touch grass.
GIGO in the billions.