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I think I largely did. I watch Youtube with an adblocker and Lemmy is my only social media. Everything else is corporate. 95% of the internet could be gone tomorrow and I wouldn't notice.
Then you've noticed a lot of fake videos, too.
Fake product reviews (fake script, fake voice, fake video footage). Videos with AI hosts (that you wouldn't even realize is AI). Low effort video production that's been handed off to an app to do all the work. Scripted content based on AI generated text (Youtube now offers creators AI generated ideas and scripts, btw).
You can sift through some of it now, but what will you do when you can't tell the difference? Will you invest time watching fake content?
I have channels that I watch. Real people (who I've met), and others who are verifiably real. But those creators will be few and far between in the near future.
I only view the channels I'm following, and never click on anything else there. So as long as Youtube doesn't inject te AI shit in those channels, I'm good.
This is the way.... for now.
Makes discovering new content difficult, though, especially if you're looking up informational videos, product reviews, etc.