Comment on YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement

• GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least now they can ban accounts with reason. It’s a step in the right direction as there are lots of “science” accounts basically posting ai spouted babble that sounds ‘sciencey’ getting hundreds of thousands of views.

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the science ain't coming from PBS, Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, Minute Physics or Sabine Hossenfelder, then it's getting the skeptical side eye.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even Kurzgesagt isn’t incredible with science. They’re better with philosophy and thought experiments. There’s a couple very in depth videos abt what they’ve said wrong in climate science videos for example, and also pulls apart their funding which indicates heavy influence from billionaires in their formative years which seemed to influence the climate videos in question. If I can find it later I’ll link it here

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      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, Kurzgesagt is very entertaining, but it’s really more popular science and not really about accuracy. I remember in a recent black hole video they were going on about the infinitely small singularity, where any self respecting scientist will tell you that that’s probably not the physical reality.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s especially hard to vet them, since they usually have to do the stupid clickbaity titles and thumbnails if they want to be in any way successful. Took me a long time to finally watch Arvin Ash and Dr Becky. The latter has since become my favourite.

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