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by Neywiny 251 days ago
I watched the video right before seeing this post and I wasn't surprised at all. They don't care. AI script, graphics, voice over. There was 0 skin in the game. To paraphrase Michael Scott, if you cancel the channel over fake news they'll just make another one and another one and another one. It's effortless to make slop, so they have no incentive to care
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Surely you mean Michael Scarn, secret agent?

I kid, but we have to change the incentive structure then. Or rather, the disincentive: if you publish blatant misinformation, you're banned from creating content for a while. YouTube accounts are linked to Google accounts which aren't that easy to mass create.

Note I'm not saying you go to jail or pay fines. I don't trust the public system to not abuse this as fake news gets redefined by the dictator du jour.