Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yea, nah, it absolutely is. They often sneak in bad information and poorly interpreted data to fearmonger (see their nuclear power “educational” videos where they instill fear) and other such things. They’re just like some other science channels. Like veritasium, which shilled out for Waymo. Just because the animations are very very nice doesn’t mean you shouldn’t confirm the information they present, and quite often it’s wrong on purpose to butter up the right people. If you don’t believe me, that’s okay. They’re not dangerous like pseudoscience channels. Most things they present are good. I just hate that they mix in BS.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re using a lot of weasel words and zero sources for someone arguing we should all fact check things.

    I’m not even saying your wrong, but your going to have to do a lot more than that to convince me that “they’re known for” everything you just said, because that sounds like you have a very specific beef with them that overshadows everything else they’ve ever done (in your estimation) and your projecting that as a universal truth, when really it’s not.

    I respect your opinion, but there are certainly far more worse channels than there are better ones, and they’re known for being one of the better ones.

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That + entertainment over information quality. I’m not here to convince anybody, my goal was to make y’all think twice about just blindly trusting theor videos. They’re the Linus Tech Tips of the science channel world.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Right so you say everyone should source all their work but then claim very specific things about the channel and then refuse to provide sources.

        Interesting.

        But I guess as long as you’re not here to try and convince anyone that what you’re saying is true it’s okay for you to just say anything regardless of validity. That’s very political of you, well done.

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