Some are AI fakes. Small folks who won the war by bending a gizmo that stopped 4 battalions in their tracks are common.

There are updates posted here weekly if not daily ... The Collapse of the Chinese Economy. China has been failing since April!

And we read of Ukraine success after success, but Russia seems to hang in there. We're missing out on something.

I see the same B rolls of the same drone drivers in the same bunker. You would think that All of Russia was on fire from three cheap drones bought on Amazon.

Right now, they are running "The Rise of Hitler." Their best, though, is the full WW2 week-by-week series. Lots of authentic footage and commentary. No AI.

They also have a WW1 series called "The Great War." For other wars, etc., the "TimeGhost History" (no space) channel is the way to go.

These are highly recommended.

make, like using our new flag which was not even a thought during the war, naming places in Canada for prisoners that didn't house prisoners (we definitely had camps but they often get it wrong). Some times you have to laugh out loud at some of the ridiculous claims.

But, yes. AI is taking over, so subscribing to a few trusted channels and ignoring the rest is my only suggestion.

I'm certainly clicking and asking that question now.

And bike on my stationary bike through countries. Awesome and interesting exercise when it’s too hot in the summer to work outdoors here in the tropics.

Some of the walking tours are so detailed, covering every street. I remember when someone was talking about how beautiful Barcelona was and I nodded and said yes I’ve been there, before it hit me that I had been there, but not in person, lol.

You can even look for walking tours or biking tours specifically. I found Rome and Barcelona to be wonderful walking cities. I like biking along the shores of a river or through the Alps. Of course I’m on my stationary bike, so I’m not panting as my bicycle climbs up the side of a mountain, but the scenery is beautiful.

music from the 50s & 60s, vintage films, historical documentaries, foreign language lessons, live nature cams, and a host of other options.

At first it was good. Lots of real quantum physics (which I like) and other science topics, music too. Then, a month or two ago, my feed changed. Lots of AI slop. But even the authentic suggestions went markedly downhill. I don’t know why. It’s almost unbearable for me now.

On edit: due to commercials, I haven’t been watching films and documentaries. I see them in my feed. I should take advantage of those now. (I subscribe to the Criterion film site, which meets most of my film-watching desires.)

Of excellent videos - documentaries, crime, instructional etc. But it's becoming hard to wade through the cesspool of AI, breathless hyperbole and straight up fakes and disinformation.

I've been pruning down my suggestions for several years and this crap still pops up.

The Easy Languages channels are excellent, especially the Easy German, Easy Spanish, and Easy French channels. There's an enormous number of grammar, vocabulary, and dialog channels as well.

and I keep my watch history turned off so it doesn't suggest as much stuff (that's my theory)
https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions

in my recommended list

Seems like that would be an easy thing to do.

their AI slop labeled as AI. More than one AI tool will leave watermarks on work generated by their free tier - not so much to identify them as to turn anything posted into free advertising - but will remove watermarks if you pay to use the tool, making that another incentive to subscribe.

I saw an article a year ago about OpenAI having polled users about whether they'd want their AI creations labeled AI, and the answer was an overwhelming NO.

Generative AI is basically about pretense and fraud. Whoever was behind that channel with the "Psychology of..." video you posted the other day probably isn't anyone you'd trust to know anything about the '60s and the people who grew up then, and they might never have been to the US, but AI lets them gather some generic commentary on the '60s and generate what look something like generic images of the '60s and pretend to be expert.

And those videos get views, which YouTube wants.

The only reason YouTube is asking creators to label AI as synthetic content is that there have been a lot of complaints about AI slop. But they left it voluntary, even knowing a lot if not most of the AI-slop creators won't label it. That's YouTube's own pretense of doing something.

on what I watch.

now. It's unfair to all of us.

The AI companies have known how much harm they're doing for years, and they simply don't care.

Now my feed is flooded by slop! I'm so disgusted.

so I can explain to them why it's AI, I'll get lots of videos from that slop channel and others showing up in the recommendations.

Before it became aliens and Jesus central all on there. BBC docs are all well done.

Check the source because YouTube is getting infected with fake videos.

I’m just disgusted that YouTube is allowing this crap on their platform. It’s infringing on intellectual rights and misleading their audience.

I meant my comment as a heads-up not a criticism of your OP.

Like you, I enjoy the legitimate videos. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year and a long life to you, my friend.

George Conway and many others. I always look up the person's actual youtube or podcast site to see if any video belongs to them, you can usually spot a fake very quickly that way.

And a couple of George Will fakes. It would not surprise me if they are being made by Russia, but who knows? It is getting ridiculous.

On a side note, these data centers that are being built will need continual updating of video cards, cpus, etc., just to keep up. That's going to be a real pain for those of us who want to build new PC's in the future. Prices will be high.

I report each and every fake video to youtube, not sure if they are taking them down and they come back with a name change or they are just taking them off my feed but I am seeing less of those I report.

Kinda sounded like that educated phony I remember.

First thing I noticed....the traffic kept going forward, then going backwards. Cosmopolitan setting. Then I noticed the vocals didn't match the verbal content.

If I were George Will - and I thank God(s) I am not - I'd sue these fuckers for expropriating his image to further ideas he may not agree with.

Background was an urban street down below. Cars were disappearing into each other. Obvious fake.

Also, there were other "commentators" with videos about the same subject (T**** has 72 hours to provide financial records), and all were approximately the same length (i.e., about 28 minutes). Obviously repeated prompts but with different faces on the screen.

If this is the future, I think I'll move to Nome. Evading polar bears would be better for my sanity.

Why isn't George going ballistic over the use of his image to spread disinfo? Does it pay well? Conservativism has always been about serving the interests of the very well off.

Since then our television acts only as a monitor for our DVD player, laptops, and whatever streaming device we are currently using. We don't have cable or satellite.

Neither my wife or I watch any news or opinion video. I quit broadcast news a long time ago in the disgusting run-up to the war in Iraq.

If I can't make advertising that moves or makes noise go away, on either the television or the internet, I don't go there. We usually subscribe to two or three no-advertising streaming services at any given time. YouTube has a no-advertising subscription plan.

We have an antenna in Southern Wisconsin. Girlfriend has amazon so we stream that thru the internet connection. I let her operate it. It is so good to have the glass fiber connection. The whole country should be wired by now.

Even the PBS stations have been corrupted.

We're probably not going to get fiber internet in our neighborhood anytime soon. Both the cable television and phone lines are late 1970's direct-buried-in-ground technology, no conduits. AT&T doesn't seem to be interested in their hard-wired infrastructure any more and is trying to switch anyone who has a landline/DSL to 5G wireless. Comcast/Xfinity, now considering themselves a monopoly, really doesn't give a shit about their hapless customers who keep paying their bills by habit for very mediocre service.

My wife and I had relatively high speed internet service from third party providers before Pacific Bell or Comcast were even offering internet service to residential customers. My wife needed that for her work. AT&T stopped supporting our third party wired connection more than a year ago and we were lucky enough, our home being on a hill, that we could replace it with fixed wireless.

5G would work too. I simply won't do business with Comcast.

Bringing high speed internet to everyone in the U.S.A. would be a trivial endeavor compared to the rural electrification and telephone projects of FDR's New Deal.

I get my value by downloading albums I wouldn't normally go out and buy but that I might be interested in hearing.

In addition to what you have listed, I have started watching tons of manga on YT.
I've said it for many years, YT is the greatest invention of the current era.

All of my shows are on streaming platforms now, and the only reason I have youtubetv is for sports. A lot of those are moving to streaming platforms now, too. I'd rec Jake Broe's channel - he is a Ukraine focused guy, but he's leaning hard into politics as well. He might even run for office sometime, or at least he's admitted giving it some thought. Lots of great non AI history channels out there, too.

A youtuber showed how to fix a latch on my van. I would never have figured it out. It was so simple.

Otherwise, I'd save the $80.00, Regular Youtube is on my smart TV, so I can watch all kinds of content. Really enjoying it currently.

We weren't watching it enough to justify the cost. Also, I hate ads, so watching commercial TV was becoming less and less appealing.

My husband watches sports. It is a waste, the way things are going turning it all off and reading a book and listening the music should be a far better life.

I get much more value from YouTube premium at a fraction of the cost.

Plus youtube music

The access to tons of music makes it worth every penny

I watch a few people to learn about solar or campervan things. Some are better than others. Also listen to music. Recently was looking to see Pantograph mills being operated as I am a retired toolmaker. Some of the ww11 stuff is fake or AI now

politicians saying stupid stuff and promoting disinformation. Always look up the poster's information and notice the problems with speech, both vocabulary and voice. But if you are not familiar with the person you could be easily be misled.

or get educated about is there. The marketing drives me nuts though...
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If you can wait a day or two, it will be on YouTube. Maybe sooner.

but yes, the informative stuff is better than anything on broadcast TV.

One thing in particular about your OP that caught my eye was "Tarrifs are making companies like Boeing, GM, Ford relocate to Canada. Toyota is is investing their future in Canada. If Trump were to declare Tarrifs over, it may be too late."

That's news to me - I hope it is true but I cannot think of any instances. If anything the flow seems to be in the opposite direction.

It was a short with several clips following the same script:

A baby is laying unconscious on its back in a hospital bed. A breathing tube is attached to its nose. The parents surround the bed, saying things like "We don't want to lose you" and "Please come back to us."

Suddenly, a cat jumps up onto the baby's chest, puts its face into the baby's face, and the baby begins crying. It's a miracle!

This script repeats over and over with different babies and cats. Who knew medicine could be so easy? Just put a cat on an unconscious baby's chest, and it will be well again. Appalling!!!

Stuff on YouTube. Plenty of terrible stuff too.

Nothing is going to be perfect, but everyone can find something that works for them

I have a YouTube page, so I signed on through my TV and find myself going there a lot.
I watched the 1951 version of Scrooge on YouTube on Christmas day.
I've got multiple subscriptions for music, musicians, & golf.
Lately, I've been watching the episodes of the shows of Feynmann & Cox on Cosmology & astrophysics.
I watch it more than I ever thought I would.