Oh boy, a button that generates ai shorts. Combining my 2 least favorite things about YouTube.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Buttons and shorts? Yeah, I also like watching bottomless people sometimes.
We are not the same, I usually choose to watch people with an excess amount of bottom.
Damn. I read the headline, and I almost thought it was a "Report AI Slop" button. What a feature that would be!
Was still thinking that until I read this comment. Tiktok is unwatchable (I mean more than before even) because of this. Luckily longer videos are still hard to produce with AI
That would be all of it.
I really wish more people would get behind peertube. I also wish some awesome person/s with coding skills could create an app compatible with smartTV's (esp., android).
Good news! Framasoft, the Peertube devs, are working on a smart TV app
Don't need any coding skills for doing apps. You can do it with a single well constructed prompt (and 400 other prompts trying to fix the initial bugs and all the dozens other bugs introduced prompt after prompt)
And it won't scale at all!
Congratulations, you made more AI slop, and the problem is still unsolved 🤣
Current AI solves 0% of difficult programming problems, 0%, it's good at producing the lowest common denominator, protocols are sitting at 99th percentile here. You're not going to be developing anything remotely close to a new, scale able, secure, federated protocol with it.
Nevermind the interoperability, client libraries...etc Or the proofs and protocol documentation. Which exist before the actual code.
But then you just dump your black box of combined code, that you don't understand, back in to another prompt and accept all changes with no questions ask. Easy peasy.
Why would anyone want to watch AI generated content? What's the point? I get using AI generation as a tool but if there's no human intention behind it, just a pure algorithm, why even bother?
Sometimes I'll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching
This was me once a month but now it's a few times a day.
Really? I very rarely come across it, and I use YouTube a lot. But when I do come across it I select "don't recommend channel again" and dislike the video.
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Art is people making stuff, without the people... it's just stuff.
Can still be very pretty though. I use it to set scenes and show characters for my dungeons and dragons campaign.
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It's not like you can learn from it (even if the topic is something you'll never use like a 2 hour dissertation on heat pumps or a multi-video series on how an old pinball machine uses only relays to calculate scores).
Why yes, I am subscribed to Technology Connections, how could you tell?
I love heat pumps I love heat pumps I love heat pumps
(I agree! I do love tech connections. Although I'd argue that knowing how heat pumps work can be quite beneficial ^^ at least in my case)
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Because now there literally will be infinite content for doom scrolling addicts.
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"Creators led this revolution"
The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.
No-one knows chicken like chickens!
Oh my, color me surprised /s But maybe the implementation of this will be the final straw for me, and I'll finally be able to commit to degoogling myself and delete my account and every app for good.
Oh, also the irony of a Youtube CEO talking about "a revolution" is not lost on anyone I hope. Eat the rich.
Yeah, maybe this will help me detox from my Youtube addiction.
The "Unhook" addon (increasingly required for Youtube now, in my opinion) will still completely block this as it blocks all shorts. Fuck shorts anyway. Also as TechnologyConnections pointed out in a recent video, the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube's recommended brainrot anyway and allows you to subscribe to and follow the creators and topics you actually care about. Until we have a viable alternative to Youtube (and hopefully stuff like this will drive that to happen sooner rather than later) the other option is to stick to subscriptions as much as possible and only subscribe to creators that don't abuse this or use shorts at all, preferably.
It absolutely blew my mind when TechnologyConnections shared the % of users who use the subscription page to get to their videos...
The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.
YouTube also defaults to it, so if you open it, and the video you want is already there, no need to jump to another page to load the exact same video.
the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway
Though they are messing with that too, on mobile there is a "Most Relevant" section on top. Though thankfully they are videos from your subs.
...for now.
The problem with the subscription feed is that it shows you every channel that you're subscribed to. If I only want to see cooking videos for example, then it has to be through the standard YouTube recommendations page. What it needs is the ability to manually group channels and let us choose which set of channels we want to see.
"That’s right, a one-stop shop for AI slop is incoming", brilliant sentence.
"One slop please"
Too bad this probably still won't drive people to other platforms.
Being a monopoly does that, yeah.
YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.
If only NewPipe worked...
I've been using reVanced lately. It is a YouTube patcher, not a standalone application, but it's good enough for me https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/
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I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.
I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn't require a phone number.
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