> Too much AI slop. YouTube "Shorts" is like 50% slop the couple of times I've checked it out. > > So many "X explained" or "Top 10 Y" videos that are clearly AI voices and all have an identical style, usually mimicking MS Paint. > > AI is ruining everything.
A bunch of awful historical videos as well that are horribly inaccurate or basically mine Reddit as a source of shitty “analysis.”
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Or you finish the video and read the Wikipedia article for the event and it immediately becomes obvious they're just reading the Wikipedia article to you.
Simon Whistler is often guilty of this (he must have like a hundred channels), his sources are normally just the references section of the associated Wikipedia article – but he'll say "As scholar X says in his book Y..." so it gives the appearance that he or his team has done some actual research. I still enjoy a lot of his videos but I watch them knowing I'm listening to a condensed Wikipedia article most of the time. Still better than videos written entirely by LLMs though...