A video I recently saw about this problem: YouTube’s Science Spam Crisis

Spam videos have always been a huge problem just from simple automated scripts that create bulk quantities of useless videos. But now with ai the videos are a bigger problem because they seem real enough at first glance and people are less likely to click away immediately and will have their time wasted more.

She’s a right wing authoritarian.

This reminds me of the “cylinder” post from askreddit

Why the fuck are ads even profitable? Seriously? Who actually sees an ad and thinks “I’m going to buy this product”? When I see an ad I think “fuck you” and I’m less likely to buy their product.

They can block other ads, but they can’t block YouTube ads since YouTube ads come from the same domains as the videos.