[hedora]

In the 90’s, the internet was cool, but you went to the library to do research.

For about 20 years, that flipped. I think it is flipping back. For me, the eye opener was trying to diagnose a roof vent issue. The small local library has two relevant books, each with 2-3 pages of information.

Those pages were more informative than a 6 hour internet search.

[13years]

Yes, somewhat a different topic, but so much information now exists in video form versus written due to the ease of video recording.

So many videos on YT that could be 2 lines of text are 5-10 min videos of someone talking about something irrelevant until we find the part where the problem is discussed.

I suppose AI might actually be solution to this. Allowing efficient video search.

[reidjs]

That works both ways. a short video about how to properly chop potatoes is better than a text document. They are different forms of expression

[hedora]

I suspect both of you are hopelessly old and uncool like me.

It’s easier to have a machine autogenerate textual spam.

Content production costs are higher on YouTube, so there is a lower ratio of spam to content. Some of my hipper millennial friends caught on to this five years ago.

Of course, that heuristic is going to stop working in about 5 years, based on current photo generation quality. (Just have ChatGPT 10 auto gen the script and stage blocking directions for Stable Diffusion, AV edition or whatever).

[cryptonector]

This entire comment is really amusing to me. "Some of my hipper millennial friends caught on to this five years ago" has me chuckling.