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by reidjs 972 days ago
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
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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).

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