AI slop is flooding maths YouTube

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  @2maniac · 4 months ago · pinned

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  @William1-j3w · 4 months ago

  They can&apos;t replace 3Blue1Brown

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  @BrianSpurrier · 4 months ago (edited)

  I’m annoyed that LLM’s have ruined the “It’s not A, it’s B”. It’s just a really nice way of describing something and I shouldn’t have to change how I talk to avoid being accused of using AI

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  @kyay10 · 4 months ago

  Let&apos;s even ignore AI for a moment. If there was a company that hired minimum-wage workers and pumped out slop maths videos, I&apos;d be just as mad about it. Content farms were a thing for a while, and everyone hated them. AI allows anyone to make a content farm.

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  @elliesleightholm · 4 months ago

  As a mathematics creator, I’m finding this AI slop so frustrating 😭

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  @Braxtonaculee · 4 months ago

  It’s so sad because when I saw uploads with 10k views or less I used to get excited because I knew it would be an undiscovered gem, now I click on it and it’s slop. This is a problem because it pushes out legitimate small creators.

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  @heyyy-q1u · 4 months ago

  This pisses me off so much 3Blue1Brown&apos;s videos literally made some college math concepts so interesting for me to learn, that I otherwise HATED while in my uni classes, and AI SLOP IS TARGETING THEIR STYLE OF VIDEOS UGHHH

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  @lbgstzockt8493 · 4 months ago

  Not just math. There are tons of channels making AI slop about engineering, especially electrical engineering.

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  @AndogZA · 4 months ago

  &quot;AI detected; content rejected&quot; is my approach

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  @UnknownCleric2420 · 4 months ago

  The absolute irony of Youtube&apos;s &quot;synthetic content&quot; disclaimer is that, while it doesn&apos;t include these math slop videos, it <b>DOES</b> include Youtube Poops, so now the great artists of modern Dadaism are considered the same as AI slop, but actual AI slop isn&apos;t.

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  @luminousherbs · 4 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRO_QonhC2c&amp;t=526">8:46</a> I doubt YouTube is removing videos because they dislike AI slop. Rather, they&apos;re training Veo with every video on the platform, and don&apos;t want to pollute the dataset with slop. This is probably why the AI disclosure is so unhelpful: it&apos;s a warning for Google, not the viewer.

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  @kodirovsshik · 4 months ago (edited)

  Bro EXACTLY these slop channels are everywhere. And moreover, their videos are so brief, incohesive, and disorganized i genuinely don&apos;t understand how people manage to watch them. I was so hyped for a new cool math channel only to be disappointed

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