TFW you get about 11 seconds into a YouTube video and dismiss it as worthless because its creator is already showing blatant AI slop.

Today’s example was a video on “8 mistakes people make when (doing a thing I wouldn’t mind knowing more about),” and at the 11 second mark he showed a cartoony overview of the mistakes he was going to go over… but the cartoon had two number 3’s, two unnumbered items, two pairs of identical items, and nine items total. Whoops.

And my reaction wasn’t just “this guy wanted cartoony visuals but doesn’t know how to draw,” because I can’t draw worth a damn, either. (In his place I would have just used a stock image or a written list.)

No, my reaction was “the script is probably slop, too, and it’s on a subject I’m not expert enough in to reliably catch hallucinated misinfo, so I shouldn’t let this damned fool misinform me.”

In hindsight, I’ve now spent more time recoiling in disgust from that shit than I would have spent watching it, but it was time better spent.

 

P.S. I wish YouTube had a “don’t recommend channel” option that was more reliably accessible, from a channel’s profile page or something, so I didn’t have to hope the unwanted channel popped up again in a recommendation feed.