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YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

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[-] Wfh@lemmy.zip 77 points 2 days ago

One of the largest slop-machines targeting one of the most vocal and popular anti-slop edutainment channels as slop feels like a targeted attack...

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 41 points 2 days ago

KZ feels a little sloppy at times, I stopped following it

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

I stopped when I found out that it's just a propaganda arm of Microsoft lol.

[-] Yttra@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Propaganda arm? All I could find was that they were contracted for a Gates Foundation video in 2015 and got a big grant from the foundation around that time.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah.

The Bill Gates connection is there, but the level of influence is just a conspiracy as far as I can tell.

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago

They've admitted to using "AI" content editing tools. But, I'd bet most of those tools are using "AI" either due to exploiting hype, or due to being based on non-generative, "AI" ML classifiers.

[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, of you go to their page to upload content, it now has prompt where you can generate one. It is just a stunt to fool people that they fighting and that it is hard, when in reality they want the slop as it is addictive to kids.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I wonder if it could be that the AI trains on popular content, meaning AI slop sometimes looks like Kurzgesagt because it's ripping it off, which means the slop filter learns to recognize the original content that got ripped off as slop...?

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

edutainment channels

*educationing channels

[-] Jako302@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago

Educational entertainment, also referred to by the portmanteau edutainment

The word has been around since 1973 and is included in many dictionaries. If you want to correct someone, at least inform yourself beforehand.

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I tried to make a joke. Looks like I failed.

[-] Jako302@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

I'm not even sure what that joke could've been

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you, that is reassuring.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
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