and they all look the fucking same; colour, letters, "feel". Even my fav "real" yters are resorting to them. I now hover over them to see if there is a real person in there or an AI like that Asian guy with prolly 50 chans I've blocked along with that old white dude with glasses and a beard, only blocked him on 3 chans so far. We need an alternative to yt that will not allow AI. I'd rather they took a frame from the video and badly pasted on their text than this same same shit.
Tom Scott actually talked about this in his recent Wired video.
YouTube itself auto-generates and suggests these AI thumbnails. That's why they all look the same. Creators now also have to choose three thumbnails and titles and the system swaps between them. Imagine having to make three distinct thumbnail images and titles for each video. It's no wonder this samey AI generator images are so prevalent on the platform now, it takes three times the amount of effort to avoid it now.
I mean I get it, after years of having to look for artists to make thumbsnails or hire people on fiverr instead of taking the time to learn to do it yourself, it is not hard but people are busy sure. I'm sure it's attractive to people to be able to type in a thing and get a semi professional good enough looking thing that looks basically how they want. I just don't have to like it or want to see it because as someone who learned all that stuff I find it pretty appalling design wise
I have a tiny channel, 669 subs, where I play VR games live, on linux, using proton. I'm just in it for fun so I just take a ss and post it as a thumbnail, then run a slide show of ss's and my logo on OBS while I get ready. My theme song is AI but it was put together by a viewer/mod so I use that til I find someone willing to make me a song. The art was easier to find than music
@lost_faith yeahh I'm sure , you can find many music writer who'll be willing to make it for you ! but ig you should get custom artistic thumbnails for your video , what do you think ?
I totally agree 100% I was just saying I can understand the attraction if you were a non techie/artist video maker, I find them really offputting, but I never watched a lot of youtube videos anyway. I guess people just have to vote with their clicks if they can
I didn't find this video that insightful. As some commenters pointed out his "liberal-fascism", liberalism for me and not for thee, is just fascism or applied in international sense colonialism.
Interestingly I find myself disagreeing with Umberto Eco with his second point about the characteristics of fascism "The rejection of modernism". Apparently he excluded rejection of technological development from this, but my understanding is that fascism is an enlightenment ideology and they would see themselves as rational and modern (more so than their socialist and liberal opponents).
I think the comment on tariffs equating it with fascism or authoritarianism falls flat. Because what is he saying exactly that the opening up of countries to global markets and neoliberalism is the sunny alternative?
It's too superficial for me and doesn't provide any analysis of how neoliberal forces created this kind of backlash on the right.
Also, I feel like fascism decorated in liberal democratic terms and hosted in liberal institutions is something likely to be created by centre-left and centre-right neoliberal parties. The far-right want to implement fascism by the destruction of the existing liberal regime.
Interesting, thought provoking piece to consider. [at least as far as played so far, still playing]
... I suspect the downvotes are in some part from knee-jerks of those in a groupthink they feel under attack by from this, for whichever groupthink they identify with. Likely without watching, let alone entertaining the ideas.
If one looks at the political compass, and if you're effectively already at corporatism / corporate-fascism, you do not escape fascism from there by heading left economically alone. Freedom first. At least in equal measure.
....You're the one asking for it. What are you doing?
What next, you're going to pretend like you frequently find text articles for most YouTube videos you watch so you think it's a totally reasonable request and can't understand why anyone would be confused about it?
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The Fall of MAGA & the Rise of Liberal-Fascism | Spyke
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wish I could somehow block every video that has a stupid AI thumbnail
and they all look the fucking same; colour, letters, "feel". Even my fav "real" yters are resorting to them. I now hover over them to see if there is a real person in there or an AI like that Asian guy with prolly 50 chans I've blocked along with that old white dude with glasses and a beard, only blocked him on 3 chans so far. We need an alternative to yt that will not allow AI. I'd rather they took a frame from the video and badly pasted on their text than this same same shit.
Tom Scott actually talked about this in his recent Wired video.
YouTube itself auto-generates and suggests these AI thumbnails. That's why they all look the same. Creators now also have to choose three thumbnails and titles and the system swaps between them. Imagine having to make three distinct thumbnail images and titles for each video. It's no wonder this samey AI generator images are so prevalent on the platform now, it takes three times the amount of effort to avoid it now.
I mean I get it, after years of having to look for artists to make thumbsnails or hire people on fiverr instead of taking the time to learn to do it yourself, it is not hard but people are busy sure. I'm sure it's attractive to people to be able to type in a thing and get a semi professional good enough looking thing that looks basically how they want. I just don't have to like it or want to see it because as someone who learned all that stuff I find it pretty appalling design wise
@joeljoelle @lost_faith finding a real person to do your work is much better , than commanding a AI to do it
I do pay people to do stuff like that, cause I can't and refuse to use that AI
@lost_faith I hope that everyone in the world refuses to use Ai , btw what stuff do you make ?
I have a tiny channel, 669 subs, where I play VR games live, on linux, using proton. I'm just in it for fun so I just take a ss and post it as a thumbnail, then run a slide show of ss's and my logo on OBS while I get ready. My theme song is AI but it was put together by a viewer/mod so I use that til I find someone willing to make me a song. The art was easier to find than music
@lost_faith yeahh I'm sure , you can find many music writer who'll be willing to make it for you ! but ig you should get custom artistic thumbnails for your video , what do you think ?
I totally agree 100% I was just saying I can understand the attraction if you were a non techie/artist video maker, I find them really offputting, but I never watched a lot of youtube videos anyway. I guess people just have to vote with their clicks if they can
I didn't find this video that insightful. As some commenters pointed out his "liberal-fascism", liberalism for me and not for thee, is just fascism or applied in international sense colonialism.
Interestingly I find myself disagreeing with Umberto Eco with his second point about the characteristics of fascism "The rejection of modernism". Apparently he excluded rejection of technological development from this, but my understanding is that fascism is an enlightenment ideology and they would see themselves as rational and modern (more so than their socialist and liberal opponents).
I think the comment on tariffs equating it with fascism or authoritarianism falls flat. Because what is he saying exactly that the opening up of countries to global markets and neoliberalism is the sunny alternative?
It's too superficial for me and doesn't provide any analysis of how neoliberal forces created this kind of backlash on the right.
Also, I feel like fascism decorated in liberal democratic terms and hosted in liberal institutions is something likely to be created by centre-left and centre-right neoliberal parties. The far-right want to implement fascism by the destruction of the existing liberal regime.
Interesting, thought provoking piece to consider. [at least as far as played so far, still playing]
... I suspect the downvotes are in some part from knee-jerks of those in a groupthink they feel under attack by from this, for whichever groupthink they identify with. Likely without watching, let alone entertaining the ideas.
If one looks at the political compass, and if you're effectively already at corporatism / corporate-fascism, you do not escape fascism from there by heading left economically alone. Freedom first. At least in equal measure.
Any non-video links?
Non-video links to...a video? You mean non-youtube?
No, like… text. To read. Instead of video nonsense and ads and loud.
Just… text without video.
Surely this must be a this. Like a log. A web log. We could call it a “blog” for short.
He is a video-essayist. You can load the transcript on youtube,but I guess it's autogenerated
So he’s the only one talking about this?
You want me to search the internet to find someone else writing a similar essay?
Well, if you insist on it I guess?
....You're the one asking for it. What are you doing?
What next, you're going to pretend like you frequently find text articles for most YouTube videos you watch so you think it's a totally reasonable request and can't understand why anyone would be confused about it?