The worst part is they have useful data they could be using, but because their models are "do everything machines" that have no idea what to do with the data, just a vague understanding of a process that worked in a test case, they can only put out slop.
It couldn't be that hard to isolate videos tagged as "let's plays" and check the games that do well when uploaded on a channel together. "Oh you just finished Windwaker? Channels that played wind waker saw a lot of success doing Luigi's Mansion around the same time" or how ever that shakes out.
Oh, it's pretty rubbish. I don't go for subjects, I go for channels, because I have to like the host in order to like the video, and many subjects I don't like. And it doesn't understand this.
Very true. And even the inline completions I find get in the way too often for me to turn on by default. It's decent at summarizing concepts, and there are uses in science and medicine, but most of the consumer-facing stuff is supremely underwhelming to me
that last one is so clearly directly taken from @outsidextra.bsky.social who recently did a video on 7 different ways to measure health but obviously in all of videogames and not just windwaker because there's only way to measure health in windwaker and it's the normal way
There is no way to opt out of ANY of YouTube's AI features increasingly cluttering the creator interface, and every single one of them is useless garbage.
oh man I had forgotten about this "feature", not only did it spit out some insane ideas but all the thumbnails it generated were these smeary teal/orange blobs
I clicked "Send feedback" and basically wrote "let me opt out of this please, it sucks real bad." I guess the silver lining is they don't default you to the Inspiration tab despite it showing up first in the Content section. Things could be worse ha ha ha aaaaaaaaaa
Let me guess, you posted one Wind Waker video and now YouTube is like "Yes, this is your channel how. Call Wind Waker a forgotten gem and make top 10 Lists until you die."
More that we've been playing Wind Waker on the channel, so YT has seen a Zelda video appearing on the channel almost daily for the past month and now assumes that Zelda videos must be our entire brand 🙃
Reading GenAI text attempts is what I imagine reading text in a dream is like. It's very funny but in that way that you're laughing to offset the exhaustion that this keeps happening.
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it's an orobouros of slop.
Me: please do not give the RNG text machine control of your money
They're fun toys! I use (and like!) Copilot for fancy code autocomplete! They don't really have much practical use other than that.
The set of problems solved by generating large amounts of unreliable naturalistic text is, like, spam and autocomplete.
Like, there's no way to op out of youtube making a bunch of AI thumbnails on its own??
i have no idea what Kingdom Hearts game that is, but I've decided it's my least favorite as well
good times on this internet all day every day 🎉
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The video is a Metroid playthrough
Just sucks it generates these without your say
Wow, good idea, computer. Let's just make the most boring generic video and title. That's what the kids want these days.
also yes dan please make a video telling me about Link's origins, we need bold and niche content on youtube!!!
Not sure the people who used to watch me run D&D games would appreciate the pivot.