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

https://lemmy.world/post/44507044

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.

Scary Interesting does some horror documentary stuff about, idk, scary situations people have been stuck in. No AI images, which is saying something, cause he always has some kind of background or graphic going.
His stuff is great, there was a short time where he was using some AI generated content but the backlash was so severe that only lasted a handful of episodes
I missed those, I go through phases with him. I get it though, guy cranks out videos and probably gets old using the same cave diving stock videos lol.
lol I think that was exactly it, and it actually had a good long-term effect as I’ve noticed an increase of using actual footage/images from the topics being discussed when prior it was more stock image stuff. And also 100% with the phases. Gotta binge and purge that dopamine 😭😂