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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly, it isn't the AI so much as it is the suspension that rules that apply to us should also apply to AI. They are barely legal companies getting away with murder due to the residual power of a corrupt empire in decline.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Much the same as blockchain - it could have been exciting and fun, but it was immediately put to work to exploit people, and in the end that's what the tools effectively were.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think blockchain has any legitimate uses. All of the proposed uses for blockchain are all tech bro nonsense.

I think they were talking about having a decentralised property permits. As if that's something that would be even remotely useful.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I lost interest in the channel due to their overly optimistic hopium, e.g. "We WILL solve climate change."

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't say that, though?

They say things like "with effort, we can solve climate change, or minimise its effects."

Which is very different. And personally, I hate over the top doomerism where everyone says everything is fucked beyond repair all the time.

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure they do say that, almost exactly.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

“with effort, we can solve climate change, or minimise its effects.”

The issue is not the claim that with effort we maybe can minimise the effects, it's the techno-utopia angle. We will solve this by changing nothing about the underlying economic system driving climate change, but Bill Gates and other smart billionaires will make some fantastic technology that will save us!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago

There's nothing helpful about giving up though is there.

And we could stop climate change, it's entirely possible, presumably people don't want to die so they will take action but they probably not going to start to act until climate change becomes more apparent, that's depressing but that's human nature. Humans have a long history of making radical changes at the last minute, e.g the cold war.

We like to go right up to the cliff edge but we tend not to take the final step.

After all even China is cleaning up its act and they're the least likely to be cooperative so if even they're doing something about it there's hope.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We will not solve it, it's way too late for that. Still, every 0.01°C additional warming counts. People not born yet will suffer more from everything we don't do now. So, rolling on our backs and giving up is not helping at all. Going vegan is a easy first step to make a difference. Start blowing up pipelines after that. :)

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[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Have you heard of the experiment with swimming rats and how much longer they swam when given hope? We need hope to survive.

Though they don't say we will solve it, but that we can solve it if we start now.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

capitalism will solve climate change

Tangential, but thats what disgusted me about the Osaka world expo. The theme was sustainability so you had fossil fuel companies presenting wildly impractical "solutions" and art projects. The message was "things are under control, continue sleepwalking into oblivion"

[–] frog_meister@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago

It was the "what-ifs" that did it for me.

Very boring stuff.

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[–] tino@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Kurzgesagt is annoyingly techno-solutionist but now that they are a big target of AI slop (their artistic style being heavily copied), they complain. That's good I guess.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you actually watch the video that's not what they're talking about. They are talking about how it's difficult to fact check information in a world of AI misinformation.

I always find it's easier to know what a video is about if I actually watched the video. It's just this little life hack I've come up with.

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[–] deaf_fish@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

I don't think they are techno-solutionists but that sometimes is the vibe they give off.

I just think there's some directions they won't go thanks to the threat of capital.

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Techno-solutionist lol. The power of labels eh?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What is the problem with techno-solutionism? Is it just that under capitalism techno-solutionism often results in corruption? Is the development of lemmy not techno-solutionism (to the enshittification of reddit)?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I want an ad / DNS blocklist for AI slop. I want to not even be able to go to HiSToRiAn AsLeEp In ThE WoOdS channels on my networks and devices

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I have noticed that I don't click on their videos as fast. Used to be that as soon as you see a video in the feed it was an instant click.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the topics they make videos on these days feel more gimicy and click baity so I kinda avoid them

[–] a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

100%. The recent videos all seem like they’re ragebait (‘alcohol is awesome’ springs to mind).

They could be good, I haven’t watched them. if they’re targeting people who respond to that tone then it’s not for me.

It’s a shame. I liked the earlier videos on ant colonies and strange matter and stars and stuff.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm curious why you have a different title than the video?

Al Slop ls Destroying The Internet

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Large YouTube channels usually try different titles and thumbnails during the first few hours after upload, so the title OP posted was probably accurate at the time of posting.

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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Either Kurzgesagt changed the title, or it's A/B testing with multiple titles. When I watched the video yesterday, it had the same title as OP used

[–] Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

You can still edit and change the title!

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 110 points 4 days ago (48 children)

Their quality going down is probably what’s killing their channel. Every video is a merch ad, and the occasional shilling for the fossil fuel industry probably doesn’t help any.

These things are to be expected when you get bought by private equity, but let’s not be dishonest and say it’s all AI slop that’s killing them.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 77 points 4 days ago (52 children)

When did they shill for fossil fuel? Not saying it didn't happen, just wondering

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Idk about fossil fuels specifically but they been directly being sponsored by big companies and in return making propoganda for them for a few years now.

https://youtu.be/HjHMoNGqQTI

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 121 points 4 days ago (3 children)

And of course, the video was preempted by an AI slop ad of a talking monkey wearing a neck brace.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 136 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Use Firefox + uBlock Origin on desktop and on mobile. Only watch YouTube via Firefox. Never see these bullshit ads again.

Currently adblocking is winning the war of the technical evolution of control vs. resistance.

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