r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SensitiveExtremity • Sep 01 '26
Ruined by Technology Youtube replacing comments with AI summary
Sliding the comment card left and right both shows AI crap instead of just the comments. Just give me human interactions ffs.
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u/MrBahhum Sep 01 '26
I dislike how AI is forced into everything.
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u/LittleWolfiez Sep 01 '26
Is a toggle too much to ask for? (Yes, apparently.)
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u/Chief_Mischief Sep 01 '26
It is intentional because these companies are burning through cash to develop it. They need to demonstrate to shareholders that usage of their models are growing to justify the costs.
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u/thekrone Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Modern day investors don't care if stuff is good. They don't care if it works. They don't even care if people like it. They actually don't even care if people use it.
They only care if the perceived value of the company goes up. That's it. They want to buy shares low and sell high.
They don't care if the company is set up for long-term success, as long as they can sell their shares for more than they bought them for. In fact, if the company crashes after they sell (especially if they can short it right before the crash) and they can buy back in at a lower price again, that's great for them.
Forcing AI into things builds investor hype. It doesn't matter if it's good or it works or anyone wants it. Saying "we added AI to our products" is enough for the stock to go up.
Investors like hearing "AI", so we get AI.
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u/Massive_Town_8212 Sep 01 '26
Really like that "perceived value". SpaceX talked a big game about mining asteroids for nearly infinite money, along with also folding Twitter and Grok into the company, and apparently that makes them the most valuable company on the planet ever? Even though they're not really showing any actual growth?
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u/Low-Condition4243 Sep 01 '26
Stock market is just a scheme for capitalists to gain ever growing power and form monopolies on everything. We’re at the stage now where monopolies are buying out monopolies.
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u/Massive_Town_8212 Sep 02 '26
To be fair AND balanced, it's not a monopoly, there are 3 companies per industry.
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u/Thesa_Arde Sep 02 '26
If corporations are people then they are also allowed to form polycules if everyone consents. This is what liberals want. /s obviously
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u/TooObsessedWithMoney Sep 01 '26
I'm reminded of events covered in movies such as the Big Short or Margin Call where everyone is fine with smelling their own farts because they make fat stacks because of it.
This is not sustainable.
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u/Jaded-Asparagus-2260 Sep 01 '26
The whole stock market is a fucking pyramid scheme. Buy something from a poor fucker to sell it for more to a different poor fucker.
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u/blazze_eternal Sep 01 '26
They only care if the perceived value of the company goes up.
And they want it to go up as quickly as possible! Stability is an afterthought, or even worse a weakness implying stagnation.
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u/thekrone Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
In fact a lot of them will just ride the wave until it seems like the company is going to nose dive, then cash out and short it.
They'll pressure the board into making decisions which might cause the stock price to jump short-term, but will hurt long-term viability of the company. Then when the pressure they applied to make bad long-term decisions starts to hurt the company, they'll cash out before the stock tanks and buy shorts so they profit from the stock tanking as well.
And then if the company doesn't go completely under and starts to stabilize, the investors will buy back in while the stock is low in order to do it all again.
It's all about making their own personal line go up as quickly as possible. They do not care what gets destroyed in their wake.
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u/ARM_vs_CORE Sep 01 '26
The chase for consistent unending quarterly growth at all costs unironically is what will end human civilization. Infinite growth is impossible and the reckless pursuit of it at the cost of the environment, the climate, and society will be the end of us. Trump is a cancerous symptom of our broken society.
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u/Chief_Mischief Sep 01 '26
I personally think capitalism is great and that we should be allowed to invest in companies.
That being said, I also acknowledge that we are in a form of late-stage capitalism that is so deregulated that it no longer serves a purpose that can be compatible with environmental sustainability. We have seen the SEC, EPA, CFPB, FTC, OSHA, etc all defanged and sabotaged over the decades. We also have outright corruption and bribery via corporate PACs and lobbying.
Capitalism works best in a well-regulated environment with a government that actually gives a shit about the environment, consumers, laborers, etc.
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u/Massive_Town_8212 Sep 01 '26
I like being able to buy stuff too, and would also like to invest in things I believe in. However, my issues with capitalism of gestures broadly, all that is by design. Attempt to regulate capitalists and they'll just take over the government, like they already have. Give it more time and we'll see the return of robber barons shooting strikers with their own private armies.
Hell, we almost had an actual fascist coup d'etat because of the New Deal. FDR saved people over companies, and capitalists wanted his head. That was partially aided by Prescott Bush, granddaddy to Dubya whose dad's foreign policy fostered the conditions for 9/11 to happen and allowed him to implement the Patriot Act and send thousands of our people to their graves in decades of constant war.
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u/Teehus Sep 02 '26
That is just the logical consequence of capitalism. Capitalism in its core is about growth and getting as much money as possible. Sure, governments can put boundaries on it, but the companies will try their best to undermine those regulations or get rid of them, and if other countries don't implement similar regulations their companies will (most likely) outperform those who have to abide regulations.
Investing in companies these days just keeps that behaviour going, the investors want to see their money grow and that (mainly) happens through grows of the company. The shares normal people buy are so small percentage wise that as an individual you can barely even claim to have any stakes in the company. Not to mention that you didn't actually invest in the company, the original buyer did, you just paid the previous person who owned the stock money.
Capitalism is a deeply flawed and unsustainable system based on greed. If you have morals you'll (most likely) never make it to the top.
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u/robotmayo Sep 01 '26
Capitalism works best in a well-regulated environment with a government that actually gives a shit about the environment, consumers, laborers, etc.
I mean then its no longer capitalism at that point which is why capitalist are very against regulation.
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u/thekrone Sep 01 '26
"Yes we spent millions of dollars developing this AI system that no one asked for, but look! We have great usage numbers! Everyone is using the functionality!"
Without mentioning they didn't give anyone a choice.
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u/NicholasWildeRails Sep 01 '26
I guarantee it is.
They know AI is unprofitable for them and that no one wants it. But instead of just letting it go, they try forcing it onto us to make the money they burn seem worth it
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u/NicholasWildeRails Sep 01 '26
All we can hope is AI becomes so unprofitable for these companies that they decide to ditch it
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u/Beneficial-Otter Sep 02 '26
and hopefully the stocks market will crash and everything will be affordable again
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u/BigBananaBerries Sep 01 '26
They're trying to normalise it to the point we're dependent on it & any critical thinking is subscription based. It's sinister AF what they're trying to achieve.
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u/HighKing_of_Festivus Sep 01 '26
They need to increase the usage metrics to justify the costs to investors
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u/Unoriginal_Man Sep 01 '26
That's what killed me with Google recently arguing for their need to expand datacenters because they saw a massive increase in usage, and all I could think was "well yeah, you just replaced Assistant with Gemini on millions of devices with no way to opt out".
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u/coffee-bat Sep 01 '26
i'm pretty sure it's sunk cost fallacy. they can't admit how much they invested into this shit, so now they're shoving it everywhere to "justify" the wasted money.
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u/ichigo2862 Sep 01 '26
Look how many people are
forced intousing it!! Give me more billions please6
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u/TheBlanc2 Sep 02 '26
Even fast food chains apps deliberately shoving ai 'features' just so they could get hold of more money
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u/schmurfy2 Sep 02 '26
As a genius said recently: "if we make it an opt-in, nobody would do it", it sums it well 😞
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u/im_not_creative123 Sep 01 '26
Their hope is that enough people when forced to use it, will get used to AI "helping" them with things like search, so eventually they can sell it to them
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u/Windfade Sep 01 '26
If it's like most inconvenient changes, the youngest generation will hit the Internet in five or so years filling the top comments with "Why are you still complaining? This is the best way to do things and you know it."
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u/INfusion2419 Sep 01 '26
People on the internet are guided by comfort and ease of access, if its there right in front of you, you'll use it. Most people still don't use adblockers, and 99% of people still use youtube, despite there being big talks of movement in the later 2010's all that came of it was banned youtubers moving to alternate sites and becoming even more unknown.
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u/-2Braincells Sep 05 '26
But guys if it was opt in no one would opt in, so they need to force it into everything. Otherwise how would they be able to justify the millions they put into ai? /s
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u/Sonic_Roach Sep 01 '26
I can already imagine there is a toggle and you turn off the AI recommendations
Every new screen you go to
Giant pop up window
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE! CLICK YES TO TURN ON AI RECOMMENDATIONS!
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u/TheAlmighty404 Sep 01 '26
More like "JUST EXIST WITHOUT CLICKING THE DENY BUTTON IN THE NEXT 0.01 SECONDS TO TURN ON AI NOTIFICATIONS !" and the deny button is one pixel big.
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u/TheWaslijn Sep 01 '26
If its a toggle people won't use the AI slop. And if they don't, then Google can't go "see how many millions of people are using AI??" To get more investment money
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u/blackweebow Sep 01 '26
Browser Extensions ~~~ UBlock Origin~~~~~~~
These two forces combined can combat the greatest of evils
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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 Sep 01 '26
This isn't just a reply; it's a line in the sand that you won't cross, and that's important.
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u/RockRancher24 Sep 01 '26
Kin 😭 I weep
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u/TheDonutPug Sep 01 '26
"Its the furture!!" As they shove it in everywhere because no one wants to use it. This bubble pop is going to be catastrophic.
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u/Ok-Preparation7664 Sep 01 '26
genuinely dont understand how theyre supposed to get profits from a product with no actual demand
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u/TheDonutPug Sep 01 '26
they shove it in our faces to artificially bump the user numbers and trick investors into thinking people like it.
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u/ThatYellowSuit YELLOW Sep 02 '26
There is a demand, the demand is just from the same people who are selling it. It's all one big circle jerk that'll go around and around until one of them is finally stuck holding the bag.
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u/Silverr_Duck Sep 01 '26
Not even just that forcing ai itself it's forcing a feature that doesn't even fucking do anything. Except summaries of course. It's always the fucking summaries. These companies are so desperate to make this work they've deluded themselves into thinking everyone is just dying for things to be summarized.
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u/LurchSkywalker Sep 01 '26
I dislike AI period. It's rapidly expediting the dumbing down of the world.
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u/Vaxtez Sep 01 '26
This is why I hate AI amongst other things. I'd have less offence with it if they didn't need to put AI into everything. I don't want to have a crappy AI overview in my search. I don't want AI shoved down me on my computer. It's ridiculous
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u/hippoctopocalypse Sep 01 '26
I googled an actor in a show I was watching and the AI overview spoiled his death. I was 15 minutes into the first episode.
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u/Equal_Review5251 Sep 01 '26
Have you tried duckduckgo? It has an AI overview, but you can easily turn it off and it won't be shown again.
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u/DubSket Sep 01 '26
Also with Youtube, what's the fucking point? Am I not supposed to watch videos anymore, and just read the slop summary? Doesn't that counter the engagement they want on videos?
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u/strikeeagle345 Sep 01 '26
You mean watch all the ads for 20 minutes on your 5 minute video? Where is my AI ad summary so I can skip that?
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u/coolwali Sep 01 '26
The funny thing is that YouTube video summarize is legitimately one of the best use cases for AI. If a YouTuber is basically all clickbait or takes forever to get to the point, you can use the AI to get the important info and know where it is so you can skip the fluff.
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u/coolwali Sep 01 '26
Yeah. It will give you the summary and even the timestamps.
Like, there’s lots of reasons to hate AI. But this is the one good thing of AI. I’ve legit saved time not needing to deal with clickbait.
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u/Shroom_juice_ Sep 01 '26
They need people to want/need ai so they can justify the billions they’ve spent on it
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u/kaisadilla_ Sep 01 '26
Gotta sell to investors, and it sells a lot to say that your product uses AI even if AI doesn't make any sense in it. And it has to be very visible, so investors can see the product, notice the AI and think you are better than the rest.
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u/feel_my_balls_2040 Sep 01 '26
They're putting a lot of money in it and need to get those money back and profit.
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u/HereOnCompanyTime Sep 02 '26
They're trying to normalize it while also using us to train it further. The end goal is eliminate the need for us as their workers, which is why they all keep having mask slips complaining about how humanity consumes resources, like water.
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u/Smooth-Boss-911 Sep 02 '26
It's more infuriating that this is a driver for more data centers we don't even want this shit
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u/MajinSkull Sep 01 '26
IG started to give AI summary's too. Why would I need a 30 second video summarized for me!?
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u/red__dragon Sep 01 '26
That's funny because I've wondered why I needed a 30 second video to explain what 5 seconds of reading could do?
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u/fizyplankton Sep 01 '26
But why read for 5 seconds when the author could have AI expand a small handful of facts into 30 different bullet lists, each rehashing the same fucking points in slightly different words surrounded by meaningless bloat, and then have another AI summarize the article for you, ensuring maximal generational loss of accuracy.
God fucking damn it I hate the internet now. Even if I try to click a real result instead of reading the AI hallucinations, the articles themselves have been so sterilized by AI that they're completely devoid of information
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u/Kichae Sep 02 '26
Obviously, if you're following people on IG, moving off of it doesn't do much for you. But pixey.org or pixelfed.social are solid places for posting images, and loops.video is an interesting, open short-form video site. All three are non-commercial, can be accessed from other social sites (particularly Mastodon-based websites and Piefed-based websites) aren't going to force AI into anything, and are welcoming spaces looking for fresh faces.
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u/PM_ME_JJBA_STICKERS Sep 01 '26
Youtube also added a “feature” where if you share a video or click on a shared link, the other person can see your Youtube username/account. You can opt-out in your privacy settings, but of course by default they opt everyone in. Really scary possibility of getting your personal account doxed by clicking on a random Youtube link.
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u/Loufey Sep 01 '26
You know where the setting is to turn that off?
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u/slowest_hour Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
when you send someone a URL just delete the question mark and everything after it. if you want it time stamped just type &t=n where n is the number of seconds into the video you want it to start. e.g.: https://youtu.be/yJYo2MxE2JY&t=5677 should link you to the exact beginning of the concert at the end of school of rock
edit: i don't think i picked a good example because youtube probably disables embedding on their officially licensed films, but it you just use it as a link it'll work.
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u/PM_ME_JJBA_STICKERS Sep 01 '26
At least on the mobile app it’s settings -> privacy -> and uncheck “channel visibility for shared links”
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u/scarletfloof Sep 01 '26
And even then you have to manually delete the last part of the link because it STILL tracks you even if it doesn’t share your channel
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u/fondue4kill Sep 02 '26
Instagram too. Like I’ve seen so many posts on here where someone shares something not realizing that they accidentally showed their personal profile and name
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u/Tired_Mailwoman PURPLE Sep 01 '26
I also hate the automatic translation of titles. If i want to watxh a video in english i look for an english title. 💀
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u/xwcq Sep 02 '26
or the automatic dubbing, fucking hate how that sometimes just randomly turns on, even though I already turned it off multiple times. It uses a shitty ai dub for that as well
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u/Tired_Mailwoman PURPLE Sep 02 '26
Oh dont get me started on that shit. 💀 i want that gone. Or at least an option instead of a directly default bs
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u/jxhfield Sep 02 '26
yes!! omfg the constant auto translations on IG reels are so disorienting too!!
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u/minushalcyon Sep 08 '26
My Indian friend speaks English perfectly well and fluently, and his accent is lighter than most Indians from attending Uni here in NZ. He has around 10k subscribers on YT, and when I watched his latest video, YouTube had the audacity to auto "dub" him into English. When I turned it off and watched through the entire video, no other languages were even spoken.
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u/z_vinnie Sep 01 '26
That’s odd, on the app it shows comments first for me. Maybe a setting or different on browser?
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u/SensitiveExtremity Sep 01 '26
It's the default android app for me. I sometimes get it, sometimes don't, so could just be AB testing, but man I hate it.
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u/Wooden-Hornet2115 Sep 01 '26
For me, I have to swipe the comment bar to see the ai summary, rather than it appearing automatically.
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u/Uncommented-Code Sep 01 '26
Normally like that for me too, but it showed AI summaries only until I opened the comments for two or so days until it changed back to normal today. They're definitely AB testing this 'feature' (fuck you youtube, your fucking platform sucks and keeps getting shittier what the fuck are you doing).
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u/crepuscularcarrion Sep 01 '26
Happened to me today! I thought the video just had comments turned off.
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u/Haff Sep 01 '26
They're probably doing a slow rollout or on/off to see how people interact with it.
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u/alphanumericusername Sep 02 '26
Try Morphe (and PipePipe if you wanna be able to download videos [or songs as mp3s]) and thank me later.
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u/Nixusfps Sep 01 '26
You should try the wonderful app called Morphe you mod your own YouTube app and you can just straight up disable all the bullshit you want to disable. Don't like shorts? > Disable em, don't like AI slop? > Disable it all, filter out all the ads even in-video sponsored segments
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u/I_am_just_here11 Sep 01 '26
Comments are shown to me first 99% of the time but every once in a while YouTube will decide to show the AI overview first and it drives me insane because it spoils the video sometimes.
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u/Venn-- Sep 01 '26
Youtube has been doing gradual rollouts of all features. Removing dislikes completely came later for me than other people.
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u/nomedable Sep 01 '26
YouTube routinely does partial rollouts and A/B testing where the new garbage feature that makes the site worse is only pushed to portions of the user base.
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u/killinbylove Sep 01 '26
Its AI forced down your throat. No way to remove it, no way to disable.
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u/DaventriaX Sep 01 '26
Ublock origin will later.
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u/CelesTheme_wav Sep 01 '26
I honestly wouldn't use the internet nearly as much without uBO. I've tried it, and it's not good.
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u/Global-Resident-647 Sep 01 '26
It's such a stark difference, i surfed on our pad. It was insane.
It was completely insane. I could never do it.
As if you've been drinking like warm piss for water your entire life, and then get to taste spring water.
Fuck modern day internet. I would much rather have the porn adds then this.
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u/EllePearlRose Sep 02 '26
Can you use it on mobile or is it only available on desktop?
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u/chronoflect Sep 01 '26
YouTube isn't big on consent. Every new feature is some garbage I don't want to engage with, but heaven forbid I'm allowed to turn it off. At least with shorts and playables you can "show less" but ai is just always there, begging to be used.
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u/Latentius Sep 01 '26
On Desktop, I use the Stylus extension to do targeted removals of all this extra crap YouTube is piling on. The downside is that you have to have a decent understanding of HTML and CSS to do it.
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u/Makimachi_misao Sep 01 '26
Have to google search with -ai is annoying too
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u/Vanadite Sep 01 '26
And Firefox (and its derivatives) to give less market share / power to Google, and with fully optional (or completely removed in some derivatives) ai.
I know people will rush to recommend their personal flavour of Firefox derivative, but I'm hesitant to recommend any myself as I've heard about branches being left unmaintained through major security issues etc. but that's the beauty of open source - anyone can make their own version.
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u/Snorblatz Sep 01 '26
Yeah, that way Google’s idiot CEO can claim people love it. Uh no, you won’t let us opt out
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u/dasbtaewntawneta Sep 01 '26
change your search engine to this, it's like using classic google
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u/spunkychickpea Sep 01 '26
You know, if these corporations loved free market economics so much, they should make all AI features fully optional, you know, so the market can decide if it’s actually a viable product. Which it fucking isn’t because anyone who has a brain hates that shit.
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u/Melenduwir Sep 01 '26
The problem with the free market argument, as is the problem with all proposed political and social systems, is that most people are idiots who will put up with anything as long as their immediate desires are met.
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u/Haff Sep 01 '26
I was in a Zoom call doing some training the other day and do they really need a constantly flashing/"breathing" animation (ironic) AI button all the time? On top of having another AI button? Then when I was flipping back to Adobe Reader for the program book do you really need to put a permanent AI button that pops up once I switch back to Reader? I'm sick of it.
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u/jogi_bonito Sep 01 '26
Noooooo...... yt comments section is where i get all my one liners and culture tidbits from😭😭😭
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u/what_the_fuck_clown Sep 01 '26
may revanced guide your path
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u/IncompletePunchline Sep 01 '26
Gotta go into the revanced settings and manually disable this dogshit though. Surprised it's not off by default.
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u/PossuTryffeli Sep 01 '26
May Morphe be your next saviour from Revanced.
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u/but_why_n0t Sep 01 '26
I'm seeing this on revanced. YouTube has been testing it on and off since beginning of the year.
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u/IncompletePunchline Sep 01 '26
Settings, revanced, player, comments. It's in there.
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u/Hermiona1 Sep 01 '26
Who even needs this feature? So annoying. I like to read the comments when I’m watching a video and it will switch to this bullshit sometimes. Is there a way to turn this off?
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u/Madame_Mozart Sep 02 '26
Also the “Ask Youtube” bs in the search bar… sometimes I accidentally click on it when I’m trying to type in something and it’s like… doesn’t that just remove the whole purpose of a search bar??? I don’t need AI to give me ChatGPT-ass summaries and videos it thinks would be most helpful or whatever, I’ll search for those damn videos myself and decide what looks the most helpful/interesting!!!!
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u/vgaph Sep 01 '26
Google: We need data centers to build more compute so we can do all this cool stuff that everyone seems to hate.
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u/dereklmaoalpha Sep 01 '26
like who tf wants to read a summary of comments, the fun part is reading each comment while watching the video
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u/PunicHelix Sep 01 '26
I have no problem with AI and use it for work, but i don't need it shoved down my throat at every opportunity.
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u/Lower-Sheepherder268 Sep 01 '26
Then you do have a problem with it.
It's being shoved down your throat at every opportunity.
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u/Mental_Document2888 Sep 02 '26
YouTube, the video is right there I don’t need ai to summarize WHAT I AM WATCHING RIGHT NOW
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u/kopetkai Sep 02 '26
I don't understand why these companies think AI summaries are a good idea. Don't they want people to interact? Post, talk to each other? Isn't that their whole business model?
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u/Mdu5t Sep 02 '26
And sometimes if i want to click "like" an ad pops up and I like the ad instead of the video. At least it sems that way.
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u/TuskuV Sep 02 '26
the people who steal paychecks by making useless ui redesigns might be the biggest benefiters of ai as it gives them another excuse to keep their jobs.
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u/FoxExpress2638 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
pretty sure that only happens if the comments are off edit: as it turns out I was wrong and op should just swipe right on the thingy to make it go back to comments
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u/ruet_ahead Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26
The two little dots mean you can swipe over to the comments. ...which actually works about 50% of the time. No only that but the screen shot shows there are 5,100 comments.
EDIT: Original was too harsh.
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u/FoxExpress2638 Sep 01 '26
I didn't see the 2 dots, I also only experienced such issue under a video with comments off
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u/Dotcaprachiappa Sep 01 '26
It says 5.1K comments, plus what comments would it be summarising if there were no comments
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u/Several_Ad_1322 Sep 01 '26
The dangerous implication is the summary depending on the client and the video will absolutely sway public opinion. Its a slimy manipulation tactic
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u/hrl_280 Sep 01 '26
Today, I tried to download a video but it was downloaded with autodubbed track. I tried everything but couldn't download the orginal track version. I gave up. I don't why youtube is tripping.
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u/Intelligent-Key5821 Sep 01 '26
that has to be a glitch, usually you can slide to the comments, there is no way that that is a permanent thing that replaces comments, it definitely is a horrible glitch
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u/bloke_pusher Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
I expected this, once they started showing only selected top comments and not all comments. As you had to sort by newest, and then no longer see other top comments. Already restricting informations. This is just the next step. If they could replace youtube just with a player and AI recommendations, they'd do so.
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u/fipachu Sep 02 '26
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time to install yet another Firefox extension to get rid of a stupid “feature”.
(i’ve already got one to disable machine translation of titles, because, of course, YT knows better and doesn’t let the user disable them in settings)
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u/TestMeetings2040 Sep 02 '26
I used to daily the official client for a while but ended up going to use Morphe to patch it out. No more AI summary nor timed reactions for me.
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u/DaLuckyKitten Sep 02 '26
Never is there going to be a context in which I would preferr reading comment summaries on a video I choose to click instead of the actual comments. Let me scroll through the unorganized list of comments for fucks sake, not everything has to be "AI optimized" >:(
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u/digging_deep515 Sep 02 '26
At this point, AI is being implemented in almost everything, which isn't really a good sign for the future.
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u/PuzzleheadedOwl395 Sep 01 '26
But you can still click on the comments and check them out yourself. It could be worse... Google search's AI summary comes to mind (I hate they replaced the answers menu with AI answers. One of the worst changes ever)
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u/To-To_Man Sep 01 '26
They want to isolate you. When everyone has a personalized AI feed, search, information repository, especially one that feels better than actual human interaction, then you lose all autonomy. You think what they prompt you to think, and they let the AI figure out how.
Some people will die from depression, dangerous misinformation, and other things. But it's the final solution for the end goal of unfettered capitalism.
Imagine Wall-E, except less optimistic. People are talking and watching AI media all day long, oblivious to the world. They still work 40 hours, likely only if they are lucky, with many pulling far worse shifts. And all the junk they own and eat are of the lowest possible quality.
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u/TR_Pix Sep 01 '26
Why
No really, why, whats the purpose, who wins anything from this
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u/Scroatazoa Sep 01 '26
AI summary is great. When you see a clickbaity title or something that could be communicated in thirty seconds stretched into 15+ minutes you just hit the summary and move on. Just because it says "AI" doesn't mean you are obligated to hate it.
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u/mathcraver Sep 01 '26
I hope there's a YT ReVanced patch in the works to erase this shit from existence. At least there's already one to forcibly disable the auto-dubbing.
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u/Frenascena Sep 01 '26
Hoo boy, I can see it now on certain videos...
AI Summary - Viewers agree: Dat ass