Comment on Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is only me describing my personal taste, but:

  Almost all video essays and podcasts I would rather just read. It takes half the time. Include pictures, diagrams, and animations if needed. But I can read much faster and retain much better reading than listening to someone talk. Listening at double speed is faster, but can be uncomfortable.

  I can imagine some value in some other niches, like you’re saying, but the amount of slop and trash out there is too high for me, and the companies selling it are the worst.

  Every time I see some parasocial YouTuber making That Face I just get irritated.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t get the animations and other visual aids to understanding like that.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Almost all video essays and podcasts I would rather just read.

    I don’t think any of the following videos work as reading.

    All of them are made from the start as videos (the last one is quite meta in that regard) and if you want to have them as text then you’d need to restructure them from the scratch.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vfbVVkwdQw

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUF4afxMpQk

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoldOz5YyAw

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