[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.