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PufPuf23

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12. The various platforms I regularly visit are newly loaded with fake AI and clickbait;

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 08:22 PM

13 hrs ago

specifically, YouTube, Facebook, and MSN newsfeed.

News and politics and corrupted but so are sports and the arts.

One needs to wade through junk for what one is accustomed to partake.

Looks deliberate in recent days.

Well over 1/2 the suggested links for the SF Giants and 49ers are varying degrees of wasting time. Joe Montana's wife was seriously injured in an auto accident and two beloved (or so told) 49er cheerleaders were killed.

Venezuela sank an American aircraft carrier.

Democrats are arrested or being arrested.

Have been told this and similar in recent days in multiples.

There is a musician I follow on YouTube and Facebook. There were several fake interviews and fake photos, enough that on the "official" FB group there was a warning and request by the musician to report fakes and AI to moderators and to be careful about what posts.

World has gone creepy.

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Warning: Youtube is becoming a cesspool of fake channels. [View all] Joinfortmill 14 hrs ago OP

I noticed that too! SHITLOADS of AI slop and snake-oil sales adverts CousinIT 14 hrs ago #1

Yep saw it when looking for music IbogaProject 11 hrs ago #24

It long ago had lots of garbage EdmondDantes_ 14 hrs ago #2

AIs are only the most recent producers of slop. Intractable 14 hrs ago #11

Clear your viewing history and click "don't recommend channel" often. AStern 14 hrs ago #3

It was bad even before AI fujiyamasan 14 hrs ago #4

Some great stuff like Professor Heather Cox Richardson... Joinfortmill 14 hrs ago #8

There are channels showing AI fakes of HCR out there Fiendish Thingy 13 hrs ago #14

It's always best to go to the official channel for a major figure fujiyamasan 13 hrs ago #18

ProTip- Firefox with the (free) AdblockPlus extension will stop the Youtube ads immediately. Snarkoleptic 14 hrs ago #9

Valuable advice Alice Kramden 11 hrs ago #27

It's much worse now Renew Deal 13 hrs ago #16

Good to know fujiyamasan 13 hrs ago #20

I don't do youtube except Faux pas 14 hrs ago #5

No kidding. It's a mess. Raven123 14 hrs ago #6

Know the signs! mr715 14 hrs ago #7

I just bookmarked your post. FarPoint 11 hrs ago #25

I appreciate you! mr715 11 hrs ago #28

Becoming? n/t flvegan 14 hrs ago #10

The various platforms I regularly visit are newly loaded with fake AI and clickbait; PufPuf23 13 hrs ago #12

It is indeed but, Disaffected 13 hrs ago #13

It's mostly AI now tbh, and, it's only going to get worse. Oneironaut 13 hrs ago #15

I'm noticing a lot of ads talking about glucose meters with pictures of oxygen meters mahina 13 hrs ago #17

Not a great place for browsing...stick with channels you know and enjoy...take all recommendations with a grain of salt. pecosbob 13 hrs ago #19

Treat the recommendation garbage the same way you treat spam calls and emails. Initech 12 hrs ago #21

I have seen this on the rise for say past 4 months now... FarPoint 12 hrs ago #22

I have been reporting as many as I can, especially if I know for sure they are deep fakes Bev54 11 hrs ago #23

We need to find a way to pressure YouTube to at least disallow unlabeled AI ... William Seger 11 hrs ago #26

We need to pass laws and regulations. If something is using AI there needs to be huge label pointing it out JI7 11 hrs ago #29

Got tired of the commercials The Bopper 11 hrs ago #30

AI slop and brainrot content now make up 1 in 2 YouTube Shorts recommendations LudwigPastorius 10 hrs ago #31