I‘m testing watching less Youtube and by „testing“ I mean the platform is literally slowly pushing me away. Everything about it just gets progressively worse.
YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results
Submitted 21 hours ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/24/youtube-search-results-ai-overviews/
Comments
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
loaf@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Garbage using garbage to produce garbage.
suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Calling it ‘search’ is basically propaganda at this point. The results have been fucked for ages.
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 11 hours ago
It’s basically just an alternate home feed with the first 2 videos mildly related to what you were looking for. The rest are there to distract you from getting stuff done. The whole point is to boost engagement, watch time and all the other social media cancer terms.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m so tired of useless AI “features” plaguing every facet of the internet. I get that there are uses for this kinda stuff, but literally everything is not the answer. Especially since 70% of the AI features they have added to YouTube are either useless or inadequate for what they say they do. My favorite is the AI summary of the comment section saying some stupid shit like “the comments talk about the jokes in the video.” Like… How is that helpful?
At this rate it almost seems like they are trying to stop people from even using YouTube with how much information and summaries they are trying to give you without ever interacting with the video itself.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
The worst part about the comment summaries is that bots are using the summary to come up with incredibly generic comments, which are then liked and give them high visibility. You can tell who they are due to the suggestive photo, and the 50% chance of nudity in their profile, and the 100% chance of that profile containing a link to a cam site. If you watch new, popular videos, there is almost certainly a porn bot in the comments. YouTube doesn’t seem to give a shit either, considering that it seems like at least half of these accounts are using the same profile image.