"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”
@joshsjunkdrawer, 2025
https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/
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@strypey @joshsjunkdrawer I never had anything of note on YT and the few random vids I *did* post have been posted to both PeerTube and Odysee, and as of August of this year, when Google implemented AI age-gating, my YT channel is officially considered dormant and I no longer link it anywhere.
I killed my Reddit right as they started to clamp down with censorship and moved full-time to Lemmy as far as that site is concerned, I also killed my Pinterest right as it came to light that your account could get nuked based on what you pinned and I only really messed around on there anyways. My Twitter got killed over a year after moving to ATproto and Mastodon, as I wasn't active on there and it was still around because I was lazy and for no other reason, and I also killed Quora and LinkedIn.
I still have FB and IG, but I'm barely active on one and Friendica might have me abandoning it, and the other is effectively abandoned in favor of Pixelfed.
@dfx4509b
> my YT channel is officially considered dormant
Have you considered;
1) Posting a video explaining all the reasons you won't publish video on YT anymore, and where you do publish them and why
2) deleting all the videos on your channel except that one
3) Linking the video description and the About page for your channel to the places you currently post
Leaving the enshittifiers with nothing, but providing other people stuck there with a fire exit.
Strypey
DFX4509B (Joshua Mason)