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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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Turns out it wasn't masturbation, gay sex, D&D, rock & roll, gay marriage, letting women vote, letting black people vote, school integration, pronouns, marijuana, letting gay people adopt, socialism, trans people, millenials, or Barack Obama.
The thing that's actually going to doom humanity is going to be fucking generative AI.
Gen AI is just the latest of a long line of tools that is being weaponized against us.
I blame the human condition to want to be liked and admired, and in this case it's youtube's algorithm that people chase to get likes. People don't upload this shit just so they can use Gen AI.
They do it because they want to feed the algorithm.
Likes and up-votes on posts, achievements, streaks, levels, and so on... Somehow, we figured out that the human brain likes the meaningless number to increase, and humans will spend more time on a site, game, or app, and often do dumb things just to trigger a reward pathway from seeing higher numbers.
It will ruin the internet (already has) but I think it may strengthen real life art and human relationships eventually. But yes, its a shame it was invented.