Anyone interested in history better start collecting actual tangible history books before they're all destroyed, and read & learn from those books, before TPTB use computers & internet & ai to rewrite past history to change & omit past historical events for their own nefarious purposes.
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I'm not trying to be contrarian or defeatist here, but would it really be useful if basically everyone else "knows" the official story?
I can 100% see why it would be important to fight for and preserve, but on the individual scale it looks like a steady train to being that weird guy who [hates our country / is a terrorist / believes our people have ever been baddies / etc]
Nebula is a pretty good source for History vids.
Try older videos or a different website
Yeah, Same here honestly
I found a really cool video I think comparing the pacific rim robots. Only got 2-3 minutes in because the AI voice over threw me off.
Checked out the channel and they made a kinda face reveal saying thank you for the views, with their actual voice. Even with their accent, I would have much preferred the human accented voice, verses the "perfect" computer voice
"verses" is poetry. You wanted "versus", aka "vs".
Technically, verse isn’t synonymous with poetry, and a section of a poem is more properly a stanza. So if we’re going to be pedantic about typos, we should at least be pedantic correctly.
I'm using https://aisloplist.com/ on Firefox and chrome. Seems to work well, not sure why it's not used by more people.
It's a community project / extension for identifying and blocking AI channels on YouTube.
I've been looking for something like this. I just want an AI filter on youtube. They already label videos "ai"
Need this mobile too
What's been helpful recently is having a different native language than English. Coupled with the no translation extension that prevents YouTube's AI from dubbing stuff I already understand, I sometimes get interesting and specific recommendations.
Otherwise, stick to known channels.
EDIT: The downside of speaking multiple languages with YouTube's AI push is that it's gonna try to translate everything to you as if you were monolingual. Set YouTube in English and it will translate everything in English, even if you speak French or German. Set YouTube In French and it will translate everything in French even if you can speak English. This shit is horrible.
I recommend historiacivilis.com
Good call, I enjoyed their videos on the English Civil War.
Have you tried Extra History?
It's on Nebula and Youtube.
It is sad how widespread the ai slop has become on youtube. The official Criterion collection channel just released a video which has scenes that are entirely AI-generated. The channel for the record company Analogue Sounds has as well. And even if the videos themselves doesn't contain AI-slop, then a lot of them have AI-generated thumbnails.
It is disheartening how many people are just mindlessly accepting AI-slop in their daily life.
I don't know what y'all are doing wrong but I never see AI on youtube. Starting with organic creators is the right way to go. Perhaps people who are experiencing this are browsing whilst not logged in? Algorithms have their downsides but mine knows I wouldn't want that
Me neither and I'm not logged in.
So some tricks and tips to ensure YouTube learns what videos you really want:
- Turn off autoplay, don't let it go down an algorithmic rabbit hole only allow it to see what you really want and click on
- Turn off the hover play on PC, this is annoying mouse over counts as watching they will be in your history despite no audio and you just had the mouse over it.. Again gives all sorts of slop in your history
- Subscribe to channels you like, yes YouTube will quickly learn if you binge a specific channel you like the creator and put it on your home feed, but if the home feed is a bit too much slop you want to be able to just look at your subs
- When you find that AI slop video and more from the same creator exists in your feed use the do not recommend this channel feature
- there is also a do not recommend video good for some evil click bait titles that Google tries to show you for weeks and still not interested
- the last two if it's persistent use the tell more/tell why
It's a long list but it's really 90% is the first two so your views are deliberate, sticking to subs is not a bad idea if the algorithm is particularly frustrating at the moment as it will also help limit the random walk. What anoys me the most is the first two are not account settings rather cookies so every new device I need to tell YouTube how to behave.
Yeah, no fucking thanks to the techbros wanting all of humanity to embrace this monstrosity by arguing AI is the "new normal".
Imagine not using sub box for all your video. Fuck algorithm i am the algorithm now.
This. My #1 starting point for watching videos on YT is not the home page, but my subscription feed.
Look at me. I am the algorithm now.
The "Don't recommend channel" button has served me pretty well so far (although yeah, you'd have to go through something first to mark it as such).
Take the time to Take those little surveys,or click on the "do Not recommend Box".
If you do it enough times,it rights itself......for a while!
Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
Most of the content I watch is stuff that's less likely to be ai generated I think
where does one learn such power? I'm daily blocking the entire recommendation section to not getting nuts
Turn off history when signed in maybe? Turning it off seems to work for me. Most of my recommendations on the side when signed in are from channels I have already subscribed to, while I typically avoid clicking on channels and videos that have clickbait-y thumbnails or titles.
I've got search history off, watch history on. When I watch something that I don't want to see more of popping up in my recommendations, I immediately remove it from history after. The resulting watch history plus a small number of core subscriptions results in quite useable recommendations for me.
Dude my coworker keeps sending me AI astrophysics videos because we have arguments about "new discoveries" not being real. It's going to make people dumb as hell. Tbf he already is
The easiest way to get out of an argument with me is to send me a YouTube video. It has always been the worst source of information about everything, even worse than early Wikipedia. I will not watch your YouTube video.
And it's slow as hell. They always think their point is both complicated and interesting. Text remains the best medium for communication.
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I really like fall of civilizations podcast, there are many hours of well researched and produced history. And also for a smaller creater underthefigtree is very cozy.
I have stopped using the youtube frontpage and blocked the algorithmic recommendations from appearing.
Now I only browse my subscriptions.
My recommendations for food history: Tasting History with Max Miller + Townsends
For Military History: Lindybeige
For Medieval Clothing: Bernadette Banner
Medieval Life: V. Birchwood
General History: Premodernist
For food, Weird Fruit Explorer is awesome. It's very niche, but high level he's a contortionist who loves extremely rare fruit and travels the world on a mission to try every fruit there is, the rarer and weirder the better.
It's a very fun show. Sort by most watched though since not all episodes are the most interesting IMO.
More recommendations:
Miniminuteman (history/debunking viral claims)
Ancient Americas (video essays about various pre-contact societies in the Americas)
Time Team (filming archaeologists as they excavate a site)
A Brush With Bekah (demonstrations of historical pigment use, plus education about why it's toxic AF)
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you should look on fmhy.net (free media heck yea). It gathers all sorts of free internet content like linking to archives with history content or places to find recipes.
Worked better for me than a searchengine for starting with sourdough (my starters could be dead by now)
Usually when its ai voice you need to switch the audiochannel.
My YouTube feed is 9/10 in English and for some reason YouTube tries to force German ai voice on me :(
Install the 'YouTube No Translation' extension to get rid of it, it's so incredibly annoying. Insane that Google still can't fathom bilingual people existing 🙄
The amount of extensions that I need to have to make YouTube a usable experience again istg
true, I currently have about 5 or 6 extensions to keep that crap usable.
Ublockorigin for ads, improve YouTube for misc enhancements (block shorts, delete button on playlists, codec options), hyperchat to optimize the slow chat on live streams, that no translation extension, sponsorblock to skip in-video ads and identify sponsored content. Theres also dearrow but I disable it for performance reasons.
On mobile it not better, but Morphe fixes all of those quirks too.
Just amazing how shitty a service can get, but shareholder value shall rise infinitely I guess
Unhook can be pretty useful too. Fixed my youtube experience, pretty much.
Just looked it up, seems like Improve YouTube already does pretty much the same things as unhook (hiding unwanted sections, redirecting home to another page)
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The algorithms have always been evil. youtube is best as entertainment by your own hand picked curated creators.
This was never an issue for me. I almost exclusively use the "home" (I guess that's "recommend") part of the youtube app and very rarely get AI videos in any form (voice, images etc.). The few times it's happened I do I just tap the three buttons and select "don't recommend channel". About 80% of videos shown are from channels I watch regularly and the rest are a random mix of interest relevant things with a few completely random ones here and there. Not once has it been any AI heavy anything.
Respect for using the "Le Me" format.... It's an older code but it checks out.
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I've been enjoying History of Everything (Podcast) with Stakuyi for a bit now, definitely recommend.
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