Saw this video on another platform and I thought let me go to YouTube so I can share it, only to hear AI voices. I’m like WTF? I investigate and find out that it’s auto dubbed and that there’s no option to disable it. Huh?
Saw this video on another platform and I thought let me go to YouTube so I can share it, only to hear AI voices. I’m like WTF? I investigate and find out that it’s auto dubbed and that there’s no option to disable it. Huh?
Amazing how in less than the span of my 31 year lifetime the internet turned from absolutely world-changing great and probably directly or indirectly the most fun and useful tool humans can play around with to not-yet-unusable-but-definitely-closing-in slop where you can’t spend an hour without getting mad at some system working against us.
Edit: I hate ending on a dismal note, so let me remind everyone that the “small web” (human-created blogs made with nothing but passion for their craft) exists, even if it’s harder to find. Similarly, for most enshittified websites like YouTube, there’s an alternative to the enshittification (even if it’s just getting something like Grayjay to circumvent the crap on YT)
I’ve tried GrayJay. I currently use Tubular.
It’s still “world-changing great”. All the knowledge sharing, all the collaboration, all the scientific advances, have been growing at the same rate as the “commoners” have been joining it and getting trapped in the slop.
The only change, is the Internet is not just for nerds anymore, it’s also for preachers, scammers, and the average brainwashed populace.
It used to be easy to ignore the peasants from inside an ivory tower’s echo chamber. The Internet has brought those voices out for everyone to hear… and to realize humanity is not as idealized as they thought. Time to put some real work into fixing some real problems.