Basically they want to add AI tools to make AI generated shorts and videos.

Edit: changed to a similar article that at least has a preview

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Everyone creating content on the Internet should be obligated to mark their content with AI badge if they used it.

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      Honestly, recently it seems that content created by real people seems to be just as bad. Everything is a clickbait headline “You won’t believe what the new Honda Goldwing can do” Spoiler alert, it can connect to Apple Airplay. And it took a 20 minute video to even get to that. Youtube is just full of trash. I have said this for years and still maintain my stance - We have made too many cameras.

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        Yeah, I don’t really watch any of this clickbqit content, but I have seen a massive decline of videos by channels I subscribe, and overall less quality videos, but typically if I find one, it is much better than what was available in earlier days of YouTube.

        At that point i think it’s the best to just move to an alternative service, because sometimes it’s annoying to filter good videos from shitty clickbaity ones, and it feels that nowadays YouTube doesn’t even care anymore about your preference of good quality content. Why even recommend me videos that I’d never watch? What kind of weird scheme is that?

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          Now that you mention it, yeah, their algorithms are shit as well. You can literally see it in action as you search for something and then it just adds whatever that is to the top of your ‘list-o-crap’ and then you get bombarded by suggestions until you click on something else with another keyword. I went in last night to look, and all of the suggestions were videos I had already watched or scrolled past before. I had such high hopes for the internet back in the 90’s. Sigh…

  • Hazel『They/Them』@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Sadly a real alternative doesn’t really exist, content creators aren’t going to move unless they can profit off of it.

    Plus the cost of running one is absurd hosting videos, traffic to those videos, crowd sourcing will help but some will still be stuck with a ridiculously expensive bill.

    Yes we have some alternatives now but the fed ones have basically have no content.

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    I am so glad i delted youtube from my phone lmao. At this rate, i might delete my account for good too. Its the only thing i have google account for anymore; save for being locked into the playstore for banking and stuff

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      The end goal is to lower the barrier to entry so far that turning your phone on generates a video.

      Search for something? Your results are now a generated video explaining the topic, lol.

      Investors: cum buckets

      – It’s my hope that one day some influencer, Pewds, maybe, he’s adjacent to the Fediverse these days with his Linux goings-on, gets so infuriated by Youtube that he decides to also release content on Peertube, maybe another notices, then another and another, and a few snowballs get rolling…

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          Having a paywall restricts Nebula from ever realistically competing with YouTube sadly.

          I love Nebula, but it’s really niche for just creators who do documentary style stuff.

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      Why would it matter if consumers get anything out of it?

      The only thing that matters is the next quarter’s profits

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    Doing just like Spotify, filling it with AI nonsense and promoting it, that way they don’t have to pay creators.

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        Absolutely:

        • Odysee
        • Peertube
        • Dailymotion
        • Floatplane
        • Patreon
        • Bitchute
        • Nebula
        • Rumble
        • Spotify
        • Apple

        etc. Are there good alternatives? mmmmmmmno, not really.

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          Huh? That’s… still YouTube, just curated. We thought you had meant an entirely non-Google video platform; leaving YT completely is the goal. All I can think of is PeerTube, or the paid service Nebula.

          By the way, ads are easy to defeat: use any Firefox-based browser (like Firefox or Waterfox) with AdNauseam, or NewPipe on Android. You don’t need FreeTube for that (although I do also try to remember to use FreeTube anyway, haha).

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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            A lot of the indie animators I follow aren’t on Peertube, only youtube and usually patreon. I’d love to support them all, but it’s not feasible on my salary.