Anyone got any informative YouTube channels that DON’T use AI slop?

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Anyone got any informative YouTube channels that DON’T use AI slop? - Lemmy.World

I love long-form videos that tell information and stories. Documentaries about most any topics, especially ones that last an hour or more, are my bread and butter. But when I’m using YouTube on my TV, I can’t tell from thumbnails what the quality of a channel is. Sometimes I find gold, but other times it’s obvious they’re using an AI voice over or AI imagery and I immediately turn it off. I’m so tired of trudging through the slop, even though it’s just beginning. So for now, I figure I’ll check with y’all - do you have any preferred/recommended channels that make the sort of video I’m looking for, that are still human-made? I’d love to hear about them.

SmarterEveryDay is cool, it’s a former NASA engineer just explaining cool shit. I’m a fan of his ‘how do helicopters work’ deep dive, and the world’s greatest archer videos.

Veritassium is kinda the same thing, though I don’t know his stuff quite as well.

getting more and more turned off by smartereverydays increase in religious bullshit in the videos
I haven’t watched much of his new stuff, so idk anything about that. I do know a lot of his fans were semi-upset about his increase in use of the slow-mo, high-speed camera footage.
There is this super cool video series debunking some of the horse shit Destin has been saying about creationism. Would recommend: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLInNVsmlBUlSjLSj9yGEKp…
How did bacterial flagella evolve?

This is the series made by Jon Perry (Stated Clearly) for Destin Sandlin (Smarter Every Day) to help Destin understand what we know about the evolution of ba...

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I hadn’t noticed it in the videos I’ve seen. He has a good podcast “No Dumb Questions” and has a Pastor as his co-host. Typically I enjoy it but good lord, the Christmas special was bible class and painful to listen to.