Science stuff, space stuff, WWII, current affairs, sometimes worryingly conspiracy-theory stuff too (no thanks to the algorithm and auto-play). If something is popular there are content farms for it - during my research I discovered how easy it is set up a content farm and automate the entire process on any topic you like. One video I watched looked specifically at space videos - there were farms with single channels dropping content several times a day with millions of subscribers and millions of views. I even found a 13-year-old video which claimed Google had “declared war on content farms” presumably that was before they realised they could make a shit-ton from them.
Now that you mention it it makes sense for this type of preposterous AI generated content exist too. Sometimes I wonder if the travesty that is the YouTube algorithm can be the subject of a class action lawsuit. The harm it does is incalculable.
Science stuff, space stuff, WWII, current affairs, sometimes worryingly conspiracy-theory stuff too (no thanks to the algorithm and auto-play). If something is popular there are content farms for it - during my research I discovered how easy it is set up a content farm and automate the entire process on any topic you like. One video I watched looked specifically at space videos - there were farms with single channels dropping content several times a day with millions of subscribers and millions of views. I even found a 13-year-old video which claimed Google had “declared war on content farms” presumably that was before they realised they could make a shit-ton from them.
Now that you mention it it makes sense for this type of preposterous AI generated content exist too. Sometimes I wonder if the travesty that is the YouTube algorithm can be the subject of a class action lawsuit. The harm it does is incalculable.