More YouTube Nonsense . . .

[hmp10]

Well, I guess if you don't like the looks of the Air's rear end, you can do this and call it a Gravity (although I suspect another force of nature would have had to be involved):

 

[Arghya77]

Another round of YouTube nonsense, it seems! The platform is flooded with clickbait, half-baked opinions, and algorithms pushing questionable content. While there’s still good stuff out there, it’s becoming harder to separate the useful from the fluff. It’s frustrating to sift through misleading thumbnails and sensationalized titles just to find something worthwhile. YouTube used to be a space for authentic, high-quality creators, but now it feels like a race for views at any cost. Let’s hope the platform steers back to focusing on meaningful content!

 

[hmp10]

Another round of YouTube nonsense, it seems! The platform is flooded with clickbait, half-baked opinions, and algorithms pushing questionable content. While there’s still good stuff out there, it’s becoming harder to separate the useful from the fluff. It’s frustrating to sift through misleading thumbnails and sensationalized titles just to find something worthwhile. YouTube used to be a space for authentic, high-quality creators, but now it feels like a race for views at any cost. Let’s hope the platform steers back to focusing on meaningful content!

Yep. Every morning I do a YouTube search for posts over the past 24 hours for "Lucid Gravity". And it is now almost nothing but a long list of clickbait videos with computer-generated narratives discussing the Gravity, usually with inaccurate information, while displaying images of anything and everything but a Gravity.

About the only thing other than seeing how Lucid is being covered that I use YouTube for now is music, history, and cosmology videos -- and I'm now having to be more careful with the latter two. The number of cosmology videos that are now bannered with headlines such as "Astronomers In a Panic!" is downright disgusting. There are still islands of sanity, such as NPR's SpaceTime series and the Gresham College and Royal Institution lectures, but you can almost watch as they sink into a rising sea of pure garbage.

Everything on the internet soon devolves into garbage without constant vigilance.

 

[hmp10]

When I did my morning "Lucid Gravity" search today, this was the third video that came up, even though the sorting order was set to "Relevance":

I have a premium account to avoid ads and still have to put up with this growing, stinking pile of garbage.

 

[rfc805]

The joys of the generative AI era. It is the gray goo of media/information. We definitely have nothing to manage it with.

 

[hmp10]

The joys of the generative AI era. It is the gray goo of media/information. We definitely have nothing to manage it with.

It's so disheartening. I watch YouTube more than any other source of entertainment (this forum sometimes excepted), but the almost weekly growth of pure garbage that shows up in searches and feeds would be beyond belief, were if not for what I've already experienced, to wit:

I long ago turned off the ringer and voicemail on my telephone land line due to the assault of spam calling.

Despite Robonomo blocking on my cell phone, an increasing number of spam calls are getting through.

My email inbox has become more dumpster than message avenue.

Spam text messages, a rarity not long ago, are now almost daily occurrences.

And now YouTube algorithms and clickbait content are overwhelming its utility.

The whole information landscape is turning into a lake fed by an array of gigantic sewer pipes.

 

[idiot900]

Certainly agree, although the real tragedy is that people consume this content-free content enough for it to be profitable. I'd be much happier if the Internet were full of reliable information and cogent opinions that went against my own point of view, rather than this stuff.

 

[Ughwhy]

Youtube (and other sites) needs to get ahead of this and allow users to opt-out of results generated by AI. So many of the product reviews are AI generated with links for revenue sharing.

 

[Amster]

Certainly agree, although the real tragedy is that people consume this content-free content enough for it to be profitable. I'd be much happier if the Internet were full of reliable information and cogent opinions that went against my own point of view, rather than this stuff.

Even worse, I worked with someone, and I'm sure she's not the only one out there, who didn't just watch YouTube for entertainment. That was her main source of news and information about what was happening in the world. Even last year, she was coming up with some rather strange "facts".

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

I had an happy accident yesterday: my Verizon went down. No FiOS, no internet. I spent the day reading.

Finished my backlog of magazines and most of a book (John McPhee )"In Suspect Terrain" ... about geology of PA.

I forgot what I used to do before the overweb. When I finish the McPhee I'm going to start the Bertrand Russel bio I've been carrying around for decades. It's like War and Peace but longer and less interesting.

also ... my car is still missing in action; presumed dead.... so there's that.

I understand we're at war with Norway and Canada?

The only reassuring and normal thing is California is on fire, again. It's good that some things are dependable.
Oh, wait, how close are the fires to Newark ? I assumed all the Lucid software engineers are busy with the Gravity launch, but maybe they are on fire?

"I get all the news I need from the weather report ... "

I miss my car. I should buy another before Earth is renamed "Trump Tower Too".

 

[larrycpa]

I understand we're at war with Norway and Canada?

Denmark, Canada & Panama

 

[borski]

Denmark, Canada & Panama

Over the Greenland Canal, I think? And wtf, Canada wants to secede from the US?