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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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[-] 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.

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