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AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 96 points 1 year ago (11 children)

YouTube shorts are cancer already. I've had them blocked ever since they appeared.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I used to hate short form content in principle

    but YT shorts actually shows me content from creators I like. sometimes I like browsing it, because some of that content is well suited to the format rather than dragging it out into a five minute video

    what I fucking HATE is when YouTube opens up to the shorts page and just autoplays. it's inconsistent and idk why it does that

    now, why the shorts format is here, and we can't just mix the short videos with the long ones in the same library... idk

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    How do you block them? I keep pressing "show fewer shorts" but they keep popping up and I can't find an option to block them entirely.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is that opinion because you're on a phone? They're OK by me on a PC and big TV. OTOH, if I'm not logged in, the pure shit they shovel at me, yikes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They're designed to keep people with poor impulse control caught in a constant loop of short garbage clips. A bigger screen is not going to change that.

    Also I don't normally watch YouTube on my phone unless I'm travelling and when I do I use NewPipe.

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    • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    WTF kill this with fire.

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Don't care. Just don't use them, as a I do.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Omg i just checked out Veo 3, and videos can never be believed again. I mean it couldn't in the past either, but at least you had to have technical video editing skills or the money to pay someone who does. But now any schlub can just type a dumb text prompt and the machine will generate an extremely realistic looking video of exactly what you wrote. Insane. Absolutely insane.

    How are we this far in the future right now?!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Good thing PeerTube exists, you could always just move there. Google stopped being trustworthy for creators as soon as they announced Veo 3 if not even before then.

    Similarly, with Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest further embracing AI, you got this site, Mastodon, and Pixelfed to move to as far as the Fediverse goes and even Bsky while they're still anti-AI, although given Bsky is a centralized, corporate platform, what's stopping them from going the way of Google, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest at some point in the future?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It doesn't matter where you view videos, the output from the ai generators is just an mp4 file that can be uploaded anywhere

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Assuming PeerTube as a platform embraces AI in the same way Google/Meta/etc. are, even though that's fundamentally impossible based on its decentralized nature?

    You can't force AI in a decentralized platform which allows people to self-host their content, and that also applies to Lemmy and to Mastodon and Pixelfed too, ditto for Matrix and PeerSuite.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Then I don't understand what your point is as a reply to my original comment. I said "no video you see can ever be believed again", and you reply with "well you can post your own videos on a self-hosted service". I don't see how that follows as a response to my original comment.

    EDIT

    I think you seem to be under the impression that ai videos are somehow locked onto only being on YouTube. That isn't the case. Anyone can go to any Veo ai generation site, write a prompt, and it'll generate a video of that in an mp4 file which they can upload to any video sharing platform. All mp4 files are the same thing, regardless of whether they were made by a video camera or ai.

    https://labs.google/fx/tools/flow

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've been weaning myself off video content altogether, which I feel is the most surefire way to avoid AI video.

    I feel like I'm going to turn into such a paranoid tin-foil-hat nutcase and just trust nothing I don't see with my own eyes... I mean I would be ok with that, it just sounds miserable.

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    • [+] -19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I can't wait until AI video is good enough that you can input a book and it outputs a movie which is as faithful as you like to the original, you can change how all the characters look, etc

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Youtube shorts - aka the Tiktokization of Youtube.

    I can't stand the format. Luckily, they can be filtered out in third party players.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any browser extension filters?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean. Let's be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance's ballsac. And it's not like YouTube didn't start out with short form videos. It's just that they didn't make it a separate video feed until 2020.

    I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don't have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn't a new phenomenon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Loops is a Fediverse equivalent.

    It is not a medium that interests me, I have found the content on Loops to be mediocre.

    That said, I have found the content on TikTok to also be mediocre and YouTube clips are just jailbait clickbait.

    Yes, I know it is algorithm generated, but I am pretty sure everyone is just getting jailbait clickbait.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don't get the "jailbait click bait" and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.

    I don't watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it's most definitely not "jailbait".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I have seen title cards change on unwatched videos from something that is innocuous and directly related to the content to something with a scantily clad female, tangentially related to the video who is much younger than me.

    While not technically Jailbait, the title cards are sexualised.

    I mainly watch renovation, restoration, cinema, off-roading, engineering and fabrication.

    The majority of this content is male-dominated and I do appreciate when videos aren’t bursting with aggressive machismo. I think the algorithm has determined that when I watch a video with a female host it is because it thinks I am being pervy.

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10008196?hl=en

    [July 2025] Updates to YouTube Partner Program (YPP) Monetization policies: In order to monetize as part of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP), YouTube has always required creators to upload “original” and "authentic" content. On July 15, 2025, YouTube is updating our guidelines to better identify mass-produced and repetitious content. This update better reflects what “inauthentic” content looks like today.

    So essentially, if you’re going to have a channel of AI garbage, Google wants to ensure you to use their tools to make it.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    There are browser addons that hide youtube shorts.

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