Maybe not that interesting for everyone here, but I found no better community for this.

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    I feel like the title doesn’t match the content.

    The video gives an elaborate description on their evaluation of “AI” and it’s influence on the Internet at large. And then they conclude with “we’ll continue like before” directly contradicting the title.

    Feels disingenuous. And ironic after they talked about their extensive investments into fact checking.

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      The video gives an elaborate description on their evaluation of “AI” and it’s influence on the Internet at large. And then they conclude with “we’ll continue like before” directly contradicting the title.

      You missed the entire point of the video.

      The claims are simple:

      • in order to make this type of videos, they need to be able to reliable fact check

      • data on the internet is increasingly polluted by AI slop, making it harder to distinguish fact from slop

      • for now, they have no choice but to continue while being extra vigilant… but eventually, if things do not change, they will be unable to perform

      It’s the exact same situation about climate change… we need to act now, most of us will suffer otherwise but for now we continue on living while trying to adjust where we can (recycling, reusing, less/no meat, etc) even if we know that will not be enough long term.

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        Also, presuming they are sincere and put in all that effort, they are competing with other sources that have no such discipline and they are able to flood the field and grab eyeballs faster than they could.

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        Did you come into a comment section and expected not to see any comments?

        Do you take everything as it is, without criticizing anything?

        Do that if you want. No need to be so dismissive without actually making your point. Which I assume is that clickbait is “normal”.

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      Do you think if we pool every AI in the world it will be able to figure out the difference between its and it’s? Seems unlikely.

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      Yea the channel is known for being biased and just weird in general

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          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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            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.

            edit: If this is what you’re trying to say, I agree with you: https://lemy.lol/comment/21580850

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              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.