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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My favorite showcase of this: Vinny's "PERUSE MY BIO" segment (timestamp: 2:26)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Vinny's "PERUSE MY BIO" segment

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've tried a bunch of Piped links over the last week, none seem to work for me. Are they working for anyone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They have never worked for me, not even once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They worked for me some weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just tried this one. Spun for a full minute and I gave up. I would say 80% of alternative frontends for popular services haven't worked for me traditionally, yet people swear by them. It's really puzzling to me. Like you and I can't be the only person for whom services like these don't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've never had one work and no longer even try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't work for me either. I usually just copy the YouTube url into newpipe on my phone if I really want to watch it. I do wish I could have it do that automatically

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can have links open in NewPipe by setting it in Android's settings:

Settings -> Apps -> All apps -> NewPipe -> Open by default

And then set things up in there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Awesome ty