Comment by TheGRS | Hacker News Reader

Comment by TheGRS | Hacker News Reader

I'm not on Youtube as much as the pandemic today, I feel like that was my peak watching of various content creators who pump out decent content regularly. But if I jump on Youtube today and half of my recommended feed becomes listed as AI, I'll likely stop going there altogether.

If I start going on Youtube and watch a bunch of content and my spidey-sense goes off that a lot of these videos are AI-generated (without labels), I'll likely stop going there altogether as well.

And this is not a direct bash on AI-generated content. I think the tech is going to be immensely helpful for all sorts of stuff, including youtube video content creation, but I'm dreading this early adoption period where people pump out low quality junk. I'd rather just avoid it and do something else. I'm sure Youtube is aware of this and is trying to figure out how to control the problem, but the labels just aren't going to help me continue to go to Youtube.

Tough problem, I don't envy the folks at Youtube trying to figure this pickle out.

Generative video inherently isn't bad in all cases.

Let's say it's a subject matter expert (maybe another undiscovered Dr. Huberman) with lack of video production skills to some very custom content that is unique with a subject matter expert.

Being able to explain things very well to create beginners in that case would be greatly benefitted by generative video.

On the other hand, if there is a lack of quality content, and a lack of video editing skills, and it's about ad revenue passively being generated, the new seo optimization... and that kind of fluff can probably be filtered out.

Is Dr. Huberman not a complete and total quack like I’ve assumed?

Only on HN lol

So far it is mostly presenting the science and facts in a pretty simple way to understand for the many (instead of the few) with a healthy encouragement to decide what works for you.

For me, I’ve just discovered we may not hear from enough neurologists in life when specialists can only explain their area, the perspective of the brain is sometimes what I was after all along.

Valuing brain health alone has been beneficial. You may find brain health either by him or someone else is a really beneficial area to spend more time around. I certainly wouldn’t if that information wasn’t reaching me how it currently is.

I've only ever watched his videos on fitness (weight training, recovery, endurance), substances (alcohol, weed, nicotine, caffeine), and sleep.

He has some amazing and very knowledgeable guests on for his fitness videos. The substances and sleep videos also seemed to be very high quality.

Maybe he does participate in some quackery, but everything I've watched seems sound.

Yea, I agree on the whole. It seems like there's a lot of potential in the space. But I also recognize that as you lower the barrier to entry to the few quality creators, the barrier is also lowered to the masses who either have no sense of quality control, or worse are just trying to maximize their ad revenue.

I can choose not to watch this stuff, but I think if it starts to trickle too much into the content I want to watch it just won't be worth the effort of trying to weed low quality junk out.

My solution is to only watch videos from my subscriptions. High quality content curated by myself. I wish Youtube itself had a way to group subscriptions by theme, I mostly use NewPipe for that reason.

I agree going with brands you trust is the best solution. Discovering new, quality stuff will remain a problem. And really anything Youtube tries to do will get gamified by content creators trying to turn a quick buck.

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