• Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Tldr: youtube forced ai into video monitoring and it keeps killing videos it shouldn’t, so instead of saying Ai is bad they’re blaming af blockers because why not lie when there’s no repercussions?

    YouTube views are dropping because they are using AI to vet and cull age innappropriate content from minors. the problem is the ai is very bad at its job and marks way too many videos as not advertiser friendly, which effectively kills YouTube promoting that video in feeds. this is the default view for new accounts, so you have to specifically turn off parental controls to see a normal feed. this started happening about 4 months ago. a number of channels I watch have made comments about this, including Redlettermedia

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      2 hours ago

      I don’t understand:

      • What is ‘AI in video monitoring?’

      • The article mentions literally nothing about this, so where did that come from?

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        44 minutes ago

        the article provides one “official” explanation for views dropping, and i am citing an alternative explanation from the perspective of creators themselves who see the analytical data and the judgments being past on their videos.

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      4 hours ago

      Not saying I don’t believe that’s what’s happening, but the article mentions nothing about any sort of YouTube AI interference.