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Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by LeonM »

ge96 wrote: post #16
Jenk wrote: post #4

Knew it was Roel Van De Par before reading. I think this is the next step in social media reductionism, as people find ways to further lower the effort to "produce" content whilst maintaining a relatively high return.

There is this thing I discovered recently, they take clips from movies (allowed under 30 seconds) and "recap" them as in snippets from a synopsis, then pass it through the Medium TTS voice... boom easy content (videos with millions of views). Other similar "content farms" dark series, channels recapping any scientific news that comes out... ugh. I've just been mass removing these channels from my suggestions. Fake li…

> Fake live broadcasts eg. Elon video from 2021, classic 'give us crypto we give you back 2x'.

Ugh, those are the worst.

I like space and rocketry, I enjoy watching space related content, so naturally, the algorithm recommends space content. Now, every time I open my feed, there are at least 10 of the fake Elon Musk crypto scam live streams. And no matter how many times I report these fake 'Space X', 'Space-X' 'Space_X' crypto scam channels, they remain up, and YT keeps recommending this junk.

Scammers have figured out that YT has a hard time moderating live streams. And it appears to be working too, many of those fake streams have lots of viewers (unless, that is fake too).

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by mavhc »

jiggawatts wrote: post #20
acover wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reputation?

Tragedy of the commons explains everything. Individuals at Google are incentivised to abuse the collective reputation for personal gain. It always seems that the towering reputation of Google is an unassailable monolith that will never be shaken by any individual. So every individual harms it in their own tiny selfish way, gaining promotions, KPIs, or pay bumps as a reward for their behaviour. Decades of promoting th…

They probably should get a leader to control their employees

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by mwidell »

I am somewhat surprised he only has 80k subscribers and 20M views. Not a lot considering the amount of videos. But he is probably making a nice side income from this.

As a comparison I have done youtube "the honest way", and I posted around 200 videos and have 66k subscribers and 7M views.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by nixcraft »

Meanwhile, Google has removed RedFrost Motivation[1] (over 1.5 million subs and =>120 million views) from the YouTube Partner program stating reason "uses someone else's content without adding significant value for viewers". I kid you not. This is one of my favourite motivational channels with an orignal artistic take. According to post[1], they claim to use talented voice artists and musicians to produce our exclusive poetry readings and narrated quote collections. Their appeal is rejected and ignored by YouTube[2]. So one must wonder why Google allows spam but closes down real content creators?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxqHIIcsQM91HSVme5jE5PlYQp6Zk...

[2] https://twitter.com/RedFrost_m/status/1526561792243138560

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by kuu »

techpression wrote: post #24
kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

As someone who does photography on the side this rings very true for me (regarding quality of work). Instagram has steadily been showing my content less and less (based on their own analytics) and I see less and less of who I follow in favor of content aggregation accounts (that I don’t follow). In the extreme case I’m actually more likely to see content by someone I follow via an aggregation account then the actual…

> Weirdly enough I find recommendation systems getting worse and worse

Most likely because spammers are getting better and better to exploit them.

I'm not saying that they (YT/IG) couldn't do better, but it's a two players competition: the recommendation system vs spammers.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by Akronymus »

netsharc wrote: post #23
ThePhysicist wrote: post #12

It's only a matter of time before we'll see auto-generated content that uses AI-generated imagery, text and voice synthesis to produce content that appears vaguely intelligble enough to fool people to watch it. And as the downvote count is private information now it will be very hard to distinguish these videos from legitimate ones. Personally I think creative-commons licensed content is a double-edged sword. It seem…

It feels like there are already audiences who are already fooled by content narrated by robots, I've seen some where they don't sound totally robotic, they just mispronounce particular terms that you know it's speech synthesis...

I keep getting those reddit story reads recommended to me, because I accidentally clicked on one ages ago. Just pure text to speech, hell, probably completely automated (scrub top of week of x subreddit, then make the TTS read it out)

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by chekibreki »

charcircuit wrote: post #19

I wonder how he can upload so fast. At one video per minute he would quickly run into the daily limit. I ran into it before when I was uploading a bunch of videos to run songs through content id to see what was okay to play for an upcoming live event.

Most developed countries have unlimited quotas for their Internet plans. The US seems to be an exception.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by smcl »

nixcraft wrote: post #34

Meanwhile, Google has removed RedFrost Motivation[1] (over 1.5 million subs and =>120 million views) from the YouTube Partner program stating reason "uses someone else's content without adding significant value for viewers". I kid you not. This is one of my favourite motivational channels with an orignal artistic take. According to post[1], they claim to use talented voice artists and musicians to produce our exclusi…

> They use talented voice artists and musicians to produce our exclusive poetry readings and narrated quote collections

... are you telling us you're affiliated with RedFrost Motivation?

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by polote »

onion2k wrote: post #22
kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. They do, but only through the proxy of 'likes' and 'followers'. This leads to a bigger problem with web content, especially with video - people conflate the quality of the video production with the quality of the content. Someone who can make slick, glossy videos full of effects will almost a…

It is also the exact same thing with text. Articles that are well written will be much more liked by readers
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