A.I. is Ruining History

As some of you may know, I am a big history buff. One of the most entertaining sources of historical information is YouTube. There are an amazing number of entertaining and informative history YouTubers. But I also am served a lot of crappy content. And the way the algorithm works is that if I watch one shit history video, I will be offered many more crap history videos. One clue that I have to know that a history video is going to suck is if the preview image is produced by A.I. Or at least looks like it was.

This is a perfect example. The script is boring and anodyne, the video is full of stock photos and videos—it’s just bad. Whenever I come across one of these A.I. previews, I know it is going to suck. So I tell YouTube to not recommend the channel. But as much as I try to stamp out these A.I. roaches in my own algorithmically-determined history video feed, they keep showing up. I often wonder if someone has created an A.I. to generate as many of these videos as possible and upload them by different channel names to YouTube. Whoever is producing these is in effect telling me, “No matter how many shitty A.I. history channels you delete, I will create dozens more! Ha ha ha!”

Old guy complaints.

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