PSA FOR ALL YOUTUBE CREATORS/VIEWERS
Youtube has implemented AI filters at the start of August and it is decimating a lot of channels. For some people it was turned on automatically, basically rendering a lot of videos they usually enjoy fully invisible. If you've noticed a significant unexplained drop in views in the last 3-4 weeks this is the likely cause.
The crew and I were breaking our brains trying to figure out what we are doing wrong, some potential bangers flopped like they were hot garbage. Turns out Youtube started running this AI filter without notifying anyone really.
We took a big hit in ad revenue, sponsorship potential revenue and mental. Make sure your favorite creators know why this is happening so they don't lose their heads. Also don't forget to disable this Restricted Mode if you want keep seeing our vids and many other videos you may have missed.
If you want to run a test, go to a random channel you enjoy, enable the Restricted Mode and you will see their Videos from 6 months or a Year shown as the "Latest" uploads. The second image here is from our channel with the filter.
Not sure how the future looks for us here if this keeps on going, we will have to figure something out in the upcoming months. Hopefully we don't lose the battle with AI...
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@Rahll It's a black box that someone feeds stuff into, and it spews out something else on the other side. I'd not be surprised if they brute-forced it so that any query to Grox has a query related to this topic attached to it.
@mrjeffu They stick out even in Europe, which tends to have smaller sizes than the US due to old cities and ancient roads having set a smaller 'precedent' in design mentality. They still fit, but often barely. Japan is clearly a step further in size difference.
@Microsoft Yo, what the hell is up with you guys' website. I tried to report a broken bing search result that redirects directly to a YT account page despite the description and all claiming its an article, yet this is the state of the site I find.
@ghost_prole Assuming there wasn't any gen-AI involved. That random sliver on his tie says as much, as do the weird creases on the flag in the background.
So, apparently, on top of the 'steal this image with our AI' button that now apparently exists on Twitter, the idiocy is now also mis-labeling legitimate art as being created with that AI. I already stopped posting art here ages ago, but I'll keep recommending bluesky anyway
Trump and Musk ordered all peer reviewed scientific publications regarding climate change, gender affirming care, or reproductive health publications be retracted.
So how is this not Weimar Republic 2.0, again?
@sean_gause Well, at least it showcases that neither of them has the faintest clue about how art works. Wait till they realize most of the Classic Masters had the audacity to copy REAL LIFE!
@AxolotlMC The fireflies are an incredible atmospheric update, I'll say that much. Amazing how an erratically moving single pixel can change that much.
Great news from the UK. The House of Lords has rejected the government’s poorly considered proposal to weaken the protection of creative workers to allow AI companies to use their works without consent. A victory for common sense. Hopefully the House of Commons will follow suit.
Sir Elton John joins Sir Paul McCartney in rejecting - in the strongest possible terms - the UK government’s plan to upend copyright law to favour AI companies.
He says the plan “will allow global big tech companies to gain free and easy access to artists’ work in order to train their artificial intelligence and create competing music. This will dilute and threaten young artists’ earnings even further. The musician community rejects it wholeheartedly.”
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@LuizaJarovsky We were already well on our way to Idiocracy, now I can actively see the roadmap: AI becomes a tool to do EVERYTHING, until the point where we no longer remember how to even maintain its servers and/or systems, and then everything starts failing while most humans have no clue.