• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    When I’m logged in I get a slop suggestion about 1 in 20 times, nearly all of them are obvious ripoffs of commercial science-tubers.

    I’ve tried browsing logged out on a PC at work and it’s at least 50% slop, with the other half being clickbait products, lists, and tiktok style crap. Like every site that has ‘user generated’ content, it’s only good when it’s curated.

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      The quickest way for me to unsubscribe from a YouTuber is when they admit to using ai as their primary research tool.

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        Using ai for their b-roll, using ai for diagrams, using ai for voiceovers. Basically admitting that they are no longer willing to invest their time into a project that they expect me to watch.

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        Google got pretty poopy. I can salvage just a bit with an instance of searxng, but even the search results are usually generated themselves.

        Using an llm as a search engine has been a pretty positive experience for me, just gotta double check some funny looking sources.