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Here is another I have seen,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK0zRsCcsBs

Elon Musk deepfake talking about some AI garbage, but the interesting thing about this video is that:

- There isn't a product being promoted per se.

- The channel running this ad doesn't have any links on its channel.

- The company practically doesn't exist that is running the ad.

And I have seen a few others while going through Shorts, so it's definitely something that is either hard for them to monitor, or they haven't yet bothered to look into it in-depth.

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When I was young, I thought "freedom of speech" meant that the government should not stop you from saying things that were true or that you believed to be true that they did not like. The kind of free speech we talk about when we say the Iran or China lacks free speech.

Recently, I have grown to learn that free speech might also include flat out lies that further your own addenda and be about companies not just governments.

All that is to say, that YouTube ads for bogus Amazon strategies and miracle weightloss and hearing plans and now deep fake sponsorships are here because giant companies no longer vet anything and if they did, certain segments of our society will complain that they are being censored.

It's not freedom of speech if someone is claiming to be someone they aren't (false representation) or claiming benefits that don't exist (false advertising) for financial gain. This is fraud and is illegal. There's not much of a freedom of speech argument around it and even pro speech people wouldn't come to the defense of someone lying about their product.

I've never really accepted the whole "fraud isn't free speech" thing. Fundamentally free speech would allow you to threaten or lie to anyone about anything, but that's why there are limits to freedoms.

Shorts is a cesspool of unmoderated content. The amount of content that violates YouTube rules is astounding.

I got fed animal cruelty a number of times in the early days of shorts. Maybe it thought I was interested from the one I must have lingered on to report it.

I'm a recent but heavy user of Shorts and have never noticed this since I started. I've also noticed a reduction in the amount of alt-right dog-whistle type content that I was getting. It's possible improvements are being made.

Yeah, I was also surprised when I scrolled Shorts a while back on how far off it was from my normal viewing habits. Either alt-right podcasts with dumb fake outrage stuff, or for some reason constant videos of dancing. Neither which is close to my viewing habit on YT which is 99% British panel shows. Gotten a bit better, though. Might also be other types of content having started to use that part of the platform, so they actually have something relevant to serve me.

At least I can scroll YT Shorts on public transit. No matter how many times I'm saying "not interested on" half-naked girls, and it not being relevant to anything I'm following on Insta, I get it all the time..

I get served shorts that are essentially soft core porn on a regular basis.

Featuring yoga poses, back lit crotch shots, and women wearing electrical tape on the cat walk.

I cant seem to make them stop no matter what I do. Probably because I coach a womans sport and watch a lot of that sport on youtube.

"Oh you watch womens sports, you must want to see these videos of models wearing nothing but tape!"

> Elon Musk deepfake talking about some AI garbage

Are you sure that's a fake? That seems pretty on brand...

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