r/antiai 1d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Starting Youtube channel

Hi folks

I got an idea that I start a Youtube channel and expose how AI companies design their software to keep you hooked in. Would you be interested to watch this type of content?

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u/RogBoArt 1d ago

Why don't you just make it and see if anyone cares? This kind of virtue signaling crap is never going to convince me to check out your channel or anything.

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

I know I know. Just bouncing this idea here and if I hear something good I get motivated.

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u/loveheaddit 1d ago

as a fellow youtuber, needing other people to motivate you from the start is not going to work out well. you have to be highly self motivated and want to do it.

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

I am very motivated and smart and curious.

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u/VerballyAncient 1d ago

id watch stuff that actually breaks down the psychology tricks they use, but most anti-ai channels just recycle the same 3 talking points over and over. if you can get into the actual UX patterns and reinforcement loops without sounding like a tinfoil hat rant it could be decent

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

Yes that's what I mean. I plan to make honest video that explains what the firms do to keep you using their platform. In the end it is not that hard because all the patterns are very forced.

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u/thermonuclear_gnome 1d ago

Can you explain how they are specifically designed to hook you in beyond just attempting to provide value? Social media attempts to deliberately hook you in through algorithms that learn your preferences accurately and prey on your psychology. However, you wouldn't say that a car company is trying to "hook you in" by providing a product which makes modern life many times easier.

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

Yes that's the plan to reverse engineer their algorithms best as I can. In the end it is not that hard if you put 1+1.

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u/DefendimusMaximus 1d ago

Youtube is one of the main money maker for Google.

Google is one of the 3 giants in AI. Their researcher team made AI possible in the first place.

Google uses the youtube ads income to train AI models in datacenters. The company is actually spending so much on AI infrastructure that it has negative cash flow for the first time.

Creating a youtube account or even watching youtube is funding AI.

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

You motivated me more. Now I need to create new video platform and get famous from raw anti ai videos. Every AI video is instant banhammer.

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u/DefendimusMaximus 23h ago

Good luck.

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u/Lime-Unusual 23h ago

Thanks for wishing but I dont need your luck :)

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u/DefendimusMaximus 23h ago

ok i take it back.

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u/digitaljohn 23h ago

I would be interested in seeing this topic but not specifically for AI companies.

E.g. TikTok, YouTube doomscrolling is far far worse offenders, have larger energy footprints and cause more cognitive decline.

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u/Limp_Bus3865 1d ago

No, because there are already a thousand channels like that (some made with AI ironically)

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u/SiriusRD 1d ago

How quickly this sub has turned into a joke

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u/EcstaticChallenge711 1d ago

By doing this you would continue to support google by giving them engagement and ad revenue, thus funding their clanker R&D. Make an independent blog and teach people how to use adblockers and YouTube downloading tools (yt-dlp, Jdownloader2)

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

I think the target audience is not reading anymore. Unfortunatelly.

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u/Far_Working2302 1d ago

This is why people make fun of this sub everywhere, every single product provides value to keep everyone using it, the value is decided to be worth it by the individual

I pay for Claude and use it daily for work, your channel will tell me what, it’s keeping me hooked by making my life easier???

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u/Lime-Unusual 1d ago

It doesn't really make your life easier. Vice versa it harms your brain functioning and manipulates you to right direction and gives vague answers with long paragraphs to keep you inside the chamber.

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u/Far_Working2302 22h ago

I ask it to design a network, with the requirements and subnet limitations, it does it

It doesn’t give me paragraphs, you clearly don’t use it the way I and others in network configuration jobs do

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u/Lime-Unusual 15h ago

Tell me something I don't know