Countless AI slop channels are relentlessly copying our work. So one day we decided: enough is enough. We went undercover to investigate who’s behind them and what this flood of AI slop means for the future of educational content on YouTube.

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    3 days ago

    The Death of Educational is really the big picture that you’re witnessing. Having worked in education, this isn’t just AI. Even Auto-Correct and spelling correction really dumbed kids down. Reading levels are… So you switch to videos and now you get slop videos. So incorrect and potentially dangerous videos are the next bane. At this point students should have classes on how to identify AI slop.

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      3 days ago

      i would argue identifying AI slop is just an extension of teaching kids critical thinking and reasoning skills

    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’d argue that there is noting smart about knowing how to spell if your language has no rules of spelling, it is pure memorisation

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        See this is a pet peeve; yes you’re correct. I prefer students to be taught to a certain point where they can create their own words and find out they exist already. It’s kind of hard to explain but it comes down to understanding how these words are formed. Some aren’t in this category but many words are. So if you learn the way words are created then you essentially have access to words without having to know them by looking them up. This is kind of a ESL thing IMO, I speak multiple languages so I look at it differently. Slang meanings is where it gets fun though.