All those obviously fake reels, particularly the ones which originate on Instagram and cannot be blocked on Facebook, prompted me to install Facebook Purity. No more reels of any kind.
The devil is in the details…and they could just make it harder to put a stop to this bullshit.
Huh. I have Facebook Purity. Wonder if there’s a setting I missed.
I think it’s probably a face-saving thing. Having a policy means you can assert that you really do care, even if all the other signs point to not caring at all.
You can only degrade quality so much before you start to lose eyeballs to other platforms. There’s a profit motive to have unending, sufficiently interesting content. There’s also a profit motive to have unique and compelling content. Balancing those is how you stay in business.
Apparently, according to frequency of use, that threshold is a hell of a lot lower than expected, and will not be approached any time soon.
Same here. I subscribe to a couple of Alaska FB sites, and they get a lot of AI photos claiming to be pictures of place in Alaska. Now, I’m really well-acquainted with the topography, geography, flora and fauna of Alaska and can spot a fake picture pretty easily. But my question is . . .why do they bother? Do they benefit or profit in any way from people clicking on their posts? I know that some of these people are part of a “pig butchering” scam, trying to get you ‘friend’ them. But aren’t most people aware of these assholes?
Personally, I’m not seeing AI recommendations.
I suspect that there’s a personal inclination element that increases or decreases how much empty content is pushed at you.
The lower threshold you see of empty content may be the lower threshold that the algorithm has found for you, not for society.
ETA: Though, that will change if you’re using cookie blockers and aren’t signed in. Then, you’ll get the default level for the average person.
This assumes that YouTube is interested in providing true, accurate and quality content. It is not.
Research shows that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm’s primary goal is to lead users towards more extremist and conspiratorial content. This happens because the algorithm prioritizes engagement, and content that promotes conspiracy theories and misinformation often drives high watch times and clicks, thus getting recommended more frequently - even if they are not accurate.
Could be that or it temporarily stopped working. Mine does on occasion.
Does Facebook Purity block that which is clearly labeled “AI”, or does it also block that which they suspect is “AI”.
I’m pretty sure i haven’t seen any ai-generated YouTube videos. Also, i don’t have it set to automatically start the next thing. 90% of what i watch, maybe more, comes from a couple dozen favorite channels, too.
Nor am I, but I mostly get suggestions based upon my subscriptions.
Interesting. I’ve noticed in the past few months a big increase in the amount of content the channels I follow produce - none AI. Did YouTube pressure creators to put out more stuff. People went from one a week to three times a week, or twice a week to every day.
The only AI content I’ve seen is a movie clips video where not just the voice but the script was clearly AI generated, as were the interstitial images. I mostly watch stuff too long and too talky to get the AI treatment.
More extreme, yes. But i don’t get conspiratorial stuff, because i don’t watch anything political. But… After watching some “forged in fire” i got a lot of blacksmiths recommended to me. And after watching “binging with babish” i got a lot of cooking shows. And after searching for some Minecraft content i got a lot of Minecraft content.
At this point, most of the random videos YouTube recommends to me are Minecraft and cooking videos.
It’s not that sophisticated. You tell it what content you want blocked (e.g.: People You May Know, reels, etc.) or specific key words (e.g., in my case: recipe, cabin, etc.) and it will block everything related to those.
“Cabin” because virtually everything to do with a cabin is AI.
Cabin? What would a video about cabins even be?
I assume the above was intended as a reply to me. Those are virtually all AI-generated still images.
Yes, sorry. That’s weird that it replied to the wrong person. Maybe because I’m on an airplane with an iffy connection.
But… You see still images of cabins on YouTube? Generated by AI?
I’ve not seen any specific encouragement or incentive to increase content output - there are some new ‘brainstorm ideas’ tools that I suppose might have unlocked a bit more productivity for folks who struggle with ideas for content.