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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...

staying silent is doing more harm than good. this was one of the hardest things we’ve ever had to do but it needs to be shared. if you support charlie (aka xShatter) please read tw // coercion , manipulation , grooming , emotional abuse, sexual harassment docs.google.com/document/d/1Wh…

@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.

This is what AI 'alignment' looks like when CEOs and tech companies want to control a narrative. The fact that anyone trusts AI or big tech at all is beyond me at this point.

@25jiceo God that looks delicious but also like it contains my entire weekly sugar budget...

“coffee or tea?” neither. HOT CHOCOLATE ATTACK

@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.

This is what it is like to drive a huge American SUV in a Japanese city. This clip is being shared in response to the Trump administration's claims that Japanese aren't buying enough American cars because of unfair trade barriers.

@Microsoft (Only essential cookies, but that should not make a difference for something as basic as text)

@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.

I just know the photoshop file for this was bigger than the raw

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

If this isn't evidence that AI companies know they're shoveling bullsh-t, I don't know what is.

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?

This is the state of things, even if your household has two incomes from two separate fields, you're not safe from AI. How can people champion this?

@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!

It's funny because anyone who's actually involved in the games industry will tell you that this is common practice for making concept art 😭

@KenneyNL Damn... 4 hours means you didn't exactly give yourself a break either...

Brought my car to the garage for repairs and decided to walk home. 22.4 kilometers (13.9 miles) in 4 hours. I'm dead. 💀

@ArdaCraft_ I daresay the only check being done is "can we make money with this?"

How does something so completely out of scale (with spelling errors, to boot) get officially licensed? Who is checking this? The part of Middle-earth we know isn’t some globe-spanning continent. It’s smaller than Europe.

@AxolotlMC The fireflies are an incredible atmospheric update, I'll say that much. Amazing how an erratically moving single pixel can change that much.

So what do we think of the newest Minecraft features!?

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.” @RhonddaBryant @lisanandy @Keir_Starmer theguardian.com/music/2025/jan…

The Big Steal: Big Tech’s Theft of Intellectual Property hudson.org/events/big-ste…

@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.

🚨Unpopular opinion: most people haven't realized a major consequence of the ongoing AI wave.