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Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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You might be ahead of the curve. I still consume Youtube a lot but my experience is getting worse each and every month. It's a consistent downward spiral. It's just a matter of time until I realize "Oh, I haven't watched Youtube in weeks!" That's when I know. The people who make decisions at Youtube clearly do not even use their own website or app and there is no way to give feedback either. When they realize how bad it's gotten it will be too late to course correct. You can't win users back after they sobered up from your addictive dopamine machine because they stopped coming and the only traffic on your servers are bots.
Ed Zitron, famously verbose web blog guy, wrote a post about how he thinks most of these big businesses are run by idiots that are out of touch with both the product and the users.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/