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

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Post by Foobar8568 »

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 has been done for at least a decade, back when the scandal poped out back in 2017. https://www.avclub.com/take-a-trip-to-the-automated-hellscap...

And in a more general way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

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

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Post by almog »

I'm surprised Youtube doesn't rate limit uploads per user. Of course that won't remedy the larger problem of search results ranking, but it strike me as odd that they don't have such limit set up.

If no rate limit exists on private videos as well, it could be a fun project to implement a filesystem based on a hierarchy of videos using QR codes as video frames.

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

londons_explore wrote: post #77
bambax wrote: post #72

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> And surprisingly, Google seems unable or unwilling to filter this stuff out. A little OT, but I find this very surprising too. In general I'm (still) a big fan of Google Search, which I think is amazing and miles above the competition. But it's true that SO clones are everywhere, often in the first five results. How can this be? How hard is it to detect that if the exact same content appeared first on SO, and then…

I suspect the problem is that Google can't fully crawl stackoverflow/github etc. There are plenty of pages which appear unindexed. I find it a lot when doing a google search for a code snippet and getting no results, only to find that exact piece of code/text is in a public github repo or bugreport. Then, the clones copy those pages, and do manage to get indexed. Which in turn means that when you search for something…

They probably need to hard code in some trust levels of sites. I suspect they want everything to be algorithmic through and not involve human judgment.

Same content on SO and other site means always prefer SO even if it was indexed second

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

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Post by toolz »

stackbutterflow wrote: post #88
jeroenhd wrote: post #79

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> They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that". If I walk away and think "I enjoyed that" then by all measures that was a great film. A great film will please most of not all of its target audience. When a film is shown in Cannes the target audience is cinema enthusiasts who seek deeper meaning and interesting new ways to use the medium. When a new…

It's important to be intellectually stimulated. Feeling good is not enough. The same way drugs trigger pleasure in our brain but we can't accept a society where the majority is constantly high and a minority runs the show. The moment we give up on pushing people to challenge themselves is the moment our society declines. Moreover democracies require an educated populace in order to survive.

It is important be intellectually stimulated and fiction is one of the worst ways to achieve that. Read a technical book or listen to philosophers debate or brush up on complex historically significant events.

At the end of the day art is for entertainment. Whether or not you need the intellectually stimulating element in your art is subjective and unimportant.

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

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Post by newaccount74 »

bazhova wrote: post #61
trh0awayman wrote: post #41

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Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch - including their age - and the reality is that 99% of people have horrible taste in just about everything. They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".

Agreed. To go further, I think people don't even want quality content. And on the internet, they just want the feed. They don't want reccomended videos to choose from. They don't need a comment section. The search bar doesn't even matter. Turns out the best way to engage people and get them to use any platform for hours is to just give them a feed. It's why TikTok, YouTube and most Meta products all have stories that…

> people don't even want quality content

I don't think that's true in general. People do want good content, but good content is hard to find, and people just don't want to put in the effort of finding it.

They watch what the algorithms suggest because it's easy, not because they really want to watch that stuff.

I mean, look at me, scrolling HN and Reddit for hours. Do I think this is quality content? No. But it would take a lot of effort to find something to better spend my time, so I just don't bother.

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

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Post by charcircuit »

seaman1921 wrote: post #48
chekibreki wrote: post #37

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

I think he is talking about the youtube API limit..

Even just using the website directly has a limit.

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

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Post by fifticon »

The guy in question appears even stranger if you try to look up "what he is". According to the information he puts up on the internet about himself, he is presumably (..?) an accomplished individual, being affiliated with MariaDB and seemingly being knowledgable about linux/IT stuff (this latter not surprising, to the extent he is the one that has set up that youtube monstrosity.) But then again, if you try to browse his twitter, he comes across as some sort of deranged markov-chain AI. He posts a weird mixture of religious banalities and truisms, and weird vague news/political "news", and again random links to technical topics. I get an uneasy feeling looking at it, like T-800 Schwarzenegger imitating human voices on the phone. Maybe there is no deeper truth than that it is a 'legal' scam he is making money from, but I find it repelling.

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

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Post by fifticon »

fifticon wrote: post #99

The guy in question appears even stranger if you try to look up "what he is". According to the information he puts up on the internet about himself, he is presumably (..?) an accomplished individual, being affiliated with MariaDB and seemingly being knowledgable about linux/IT stuff (this latter not surprising, to the extent he is the one that has set up that youtube monstrosity.) But then again, if you try to browse…

He even publishes technical how-to articles, but now you'll speculate 'I wonder where he stole those from - the man pages?'
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