Tag Your AI

sense-making AI / LLM disinformation enshittification

AI is great for several use cases; research, rough prototyping of code, and other creative mediums.

But if you search for various categories of content on YouTube now, you just get AI slop. It's damaging the platform. They might be getting "engagement" but based on the comments, this is not being received well.

If I was a YouTube executive I would be taking action...

AI Garbage 1 AI Garbage 2

Taken to an extreme could this be the next - and final? - step in enshittification when a platform becomes so terrible that users stop using it entirely? Obviously for YouTube there's still too much useful content & communities on there.

Perhaps there will be other effects. Will it increase discernment? Or will it further feed the sense-making crisis exploited by dictators' "nothing is true" and therefore anything I say is true?

At a minimum though it would be good if platforms like YouTube did not hide the "This is AI" label inside a description hidden in a menu. And if creators clearly labelled their garbage / content as AI-generated.

It's not hard to tag your AI slop, and when it's labelled correctly people know its made up, and will cut it more slack:

Content correctly labelled as made up Note: this is not slop. It's actually a pretty great reconstruction of a giant wave, one that's actually _better_ than the AI generated videos you can find on YouTube right now.