[cbau]

You can turn to actual experts, e.g. YouTube or books. But yes, I have recently had the misfortune of working with a personal trainer who was using ChatGPT to come up with training programs, and it felt confusing and like I was wasting time and money.

[pino82]

When I'm looking for actual experts, the first thing that comes to my mind is definitely YouTube!!

And least when it's about YouTube specific topics, like where the like button and the subscribe button is.

They will tell me. Every. Single. F*cking. 5. Minute. Clip. Again. And. Again.

Not soooo much for anything actually important or interesting, though.... ;)

PS: Also which of the always same ~5 shady companies their sponsor is, of course.

[knowaveragejoe]

Unironically, youtube is a great place to find actual experts on a given subject.

[pino82]

But he explicitly mentions books. That contrast makes it interesting. I assume that he is explicitly fine with text content.

And then he does not mention the web in general (or even Reddit - it wouldn't be worth more than an eyeroll to me), but YouTube.

On the one hand, yeah, well, the web was probably in a better shape in the past. (And YT even is a major aspect of that, imho, but anyways...) On the other hand, you really must be a die hard YT fanatic to only mention that single website (which by the way is mostly video clips, and has all the issues of the entire web), instead of just the web.

It's really well outside of the sphere of my imagination. The root cause of my reply wasn't even disagreement at first, but surprise and confusion.

[pixl97]

You've made an error here...

>They will tell me. Every. Single. F*cking. 5. Minute. Clip. Again. And. Again.

Do you know why you got that video. Because people liked and subscribed to them and the 'experts' with the best information in the universe are hidden 5000 videos below with 10 views.

And this is 100% Googles fault for the algorithms they created that force these behaviors on anyone that wants to use their platform and have visibility.

Lastly, if you can't find anything interesting or important on YT, this points at a failure of your own. While there is an ocean of crap, there is more than enough amazing content out there.

[pino82]

Yeah, well, I never said that there aren't any experts in any topic who at some point decided to publish something there. The fact that entire generations of human beings basically look there and at TikTok and Instagram for any topic, probably also helps with this decision. It's still wildly bizarre to me anyways when people don't mention the web in general in such a context, but one particular commercial website, which is a lot about video based attention economy (and rather classic economy via so-called influencers). Nothing of that sounds ideal to me when it comes to learning about actually useful topics from actual experts. Not even the media type. It's hard for them to hyperlink between content, it's hard for me to search, to skip stuff, reread a passage or two, choose my own speed for each section, etc, etc. Sure, you can find it somewhere there. In the same spirit, McD is a salad bar, though... ;)

> And this is 100% Googles fault for the algorithms they created that force these behaviors on anyone that wants to use their platform and have visibility.

Wrong assumptions. It's not their fault, and a lot of it is probably by intent. It's just that they and you are not in the same boat. You are the product at big tech sites. It's 100% (impersonally) your fault to be sooo resistant understanding that. ;)