Shame youtube removed the like/dislike ratio which we previously used for mass protest against video authors for their wrongdoings. Channels can now shovel shit onto us with no public humiliation inflicted on them in return.

Don't dislike. Engagement promotes the video. Comments, likes, subs, shares, and dislikes all tell the algorithm to promote the video.

Don’t click dislike, it does nothing except promote the channel.

I recommend not having a feed and instead using a self hosted RSS service like FreshRSS to subscribe to channels you care about

Then you can use filters to drop out the boring bits like shorts from the feed easily.

NewPipe excels at this task.

That's how I've used yt for like, 15 years? Nothing on the homepage is relevant, if I want to see new 'creators' I find them organically from the ones I already watch, or recommendations by friends. I actually forgot that the homepage isn't the subscription feed a couple years ago and was like 'the fuck is all this shit' (I don't use the website that often, got logged out).

Yep. I just wish there was an option to block most of the videos from specific channels. I've had to unsubscribe to some because they kept constantly pushing updates and new videos to the point where it was kinda hard to see other videos (france24 if anyone is interested).

Their fucking algorithm does a good job wasting hours of my day.

What about strictly TTS models, which would probably be lumped under ANI (artificial narrow intelligence), which has been around a long time? There's cloud based ones, but also some good local ones. Throwing out the content just because of how the voice is made is one level from doing that because a person sounds funny, ot looks a certain way. Which is fitting, since that's probably why some of them use TTS, to avoid comments that attack them personally.

books cannot contain unskippable ads

Ready Player One might disagree

Yea but it’s an indicator or overall lack of polish. Not always, but it’s likely

The worse is comparison videos which are fully generated automatically

Yeah sometimes I get it. The author doesn't like their own voice, English isn't their first language, or they're trying to offer their video in multiple different languages. Usually you have to watch it for a bit to pick up on whether it was written by AI or not. Like someone else mentioned in this thread, it's good to look at the frequency of video uploads for the channel and if they're doing 20 to 30 minute videos everyday or at a pace that one would consider a breakneck speed for a human, you know it's AI bullshit.

Prepare for skritches!

I would frankly prefer a thick accent, and some subtitles... Even AI generated subtitles with a quick proofread pass, is vastly superior to AI voices IMO

Ok, I'll be the one to ask. Why?

I had this issue a few times. If you watch a video in another language than what you have set in your settings, YouTube will now auto AI translate with a voiceover. It sounds horrible and is very annoying. It's YouTube fault though, and not the creators'.