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kids video content flooding with ai slop
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
After years of getting angry about shite like this, it hit me.
My kid will be smart, their kid will be retarded. Mine wins out.
And that's that
Make your own choice.
My kid will be smart, their kid will be retarded. Mine wins out.
And that's that
Make your own choice.
reinking
Gold Member
I know AI is evil but why single out only the stupid AI videos? Kids spending too much time watching these youtube short videos is the bigger problem. I grew up watching a coyote chasing a road runner being hit with dumbbells and blown up with sticks of dynamite. It was nonsensical but I guess since it was created by humans it was okay? I get it, I am not a fan of AI creeping into our lives, but short video content in this manner does not bother me. It is the amount of time being spent by young kids watching all short form media that has me worried.
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
Every parent decides what culture their kids grow up in. Either it's one of a balanced tech/offline life or one of overstimulation. Just because the environment is one way doesn't mean it needs to mold them completely. I grew up in Sweden with Finnish parents so I was molded by both cultures and nothing was lost by me not going 100% native.After years of getting angry about shite like this, it hit me.
My kid will be smart, their kid will be retarded. Mine wins out.
And that's that
Make your own choice.
I also remember when I was a kid and wasn't allowed to sit and watch movies all day. Now even that may be too understimulating to grownups too. I'm happy to see at my local library how parents bring their kids there to read books and listen to stories. Their childhood will be filled with actual stimulation, not the sugary one infesting our modern societies.
HRK69
Member
There are so many better things kids could be doing with that time. But hey, I guess some parents are just happy not having to deal with their kids for a while
Agave
Gold Member
It's already shown that those videos being integrated in short video formats are damaging frontal lobe activity
www.frontiersin.org
I say they're crossing the line now
Frontiers | Mobile phone short video use negatively impacts attention functions: an EEG study
The pervasive nature of short-form video platforms has seamlessly integrated into daily routines, yet it is important to recognize their potential adverse ef...
www.frontiersin.org
I say they're crossing the line now
reinking
Gold Member
Unfortunately, some of them need the kid to be distracted so they can spend time doing the same thing. My family has been pretty good about being less reliant on social media, but I have caught myself doom scrolling youtube shorts. I spent two hours doing it one night. Needless to say, I was shocked when I realized I had sat there that long doing essentially nothing.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
Well, it depends on who's using it... AI has helped me a lot and is one of the best things they've come up with; it depends on how you use it and how much time you spend online.
What I don't agree with, and what I dislike, are social media.
Social media has been brainwashing people for a long time.
The victims there, and those who are psychologically affected, are women... even if they deny it.
What I don't agree with, and what I dislike, are social media.
Social media has been brainwashing people for a long time.
The victims there, and those who are psychologically affected, are women... even if they deny it.
Wasn't there a similar affair like 10 years ago?
Without AI, but quite similar short, colorful videos aimed at babies/preschoolers, with cartoon characters eating stuff from toilets etc.? Sometimes creepy and bizarre
And with randomly-generated comments
Ah yes indeed:
theoutline.com
Without AI, but quite similar short, colorful videos aimed at babies/preschoolers, with cartoon characters eating stuff from toilets etc.? Sometimes creepy and bizarre
And with randomly-generated comments
Ah yes indeed:
YouTube has a fake Peppa Pig problem
Brands are not our friends. But sometimes, they can be our allies.
theoutline.com
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
We spent most of our child's life out the house, and by god did that kid walk.. Libraries, wood walks, farms, holidays you name it, looking around at other kids his age group, I'd say it was worth it, but it wasn't easy. Obviously now he's a teen and does the usual goof things kids of that age does but he is more rounded.
It's just a case of commitment. Looking around, half the folks I see act like the kid they have is a burden to begin with, and that's never going to cut it.
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hullostranger
Member
Curate what you consume and spend time on.
Doubly so for your kids. Spend the time and effort to engage with them, I know how it positively impacted me growing up and it's the same with my own.
Doubly so for your kids. Spend the time and effort to engage with them, I know how it positively impacted me growing up and it's the same with my own.
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Madflavor
Member
My wife and I decided to cut out Youtube from our Toddler's life earlier this year. The only streaming content we allow him to watch is PBS Kids and Disney+
Youtube is nothing by visual stimulation. It's like Fast Food for a kid's brain. There's no substance to it, no storylines to follow, no life lessons being taught, it's just an instant dopamine hit and I think it's absolutely TERRIBLE for a child's development.
Youtube is nothing by visual stimulation. It's like Fast Food for a kid's brain. There's no substance to it, no storylines to follow, no life lessons being taught, it's just an instant dopamine hit and I think it's absolutely TERRIBLE for a child's development.
ForAcademicPurposes
Gold Member
MKUltra in your cell phone. Hence, the withdrawal leaving it at home or losing it.
Aesius
Member
One of the worst parts about kids' YouTube is how even "normal" shows like Wild Kratts, which has a narrative and is educational, will upload free episodes, but then halfway through the one-hour runtime, it will randomly switch to a new episode.
Madflavor
Member
Wild Kratts is also on PBS Kids which my son enjoys. PBS is pretty damn good from what I've seen.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Yeah most of the stuff they showed in that video is better than the crap that people produce. E - Elephant (green) and a green elephant doing a dive into a pool - I don't have a problem with that. The overall shorts format seems bad for toddlers - but an entire video of the alphabet done like that would actually be somewhat educational. Then switch them to Team Umizoomi when they get a little older.
Wilhelm_85
Gold Member
Do not hand over screens to young children. YouTube kids content has been filled with demonic slop long before generative AI became mainstream.
wondermega
Member
Television existed in a consumer form for about 20 years before it began being referred to as the idiot box. This is really nothing new.
Svalr93
Banned
Swedish public service put out a bunch of ai generated kids shows recently...
Big backlash against it as there should be we literally pay taxes for that garbage, and they just generate some dumb brain rot slop and pocket the money...
I disagree I do think it's worse by being ai at least bad slop made by humans has some actual effort and humanity in it even if it's bad.
But even if I agreed the issue still is that ai crap can be generated so quickly en masse on a level that humans can't, so the spam becomes like 500 trillion times worse because now EVERYONE can do it and they can do it on a massive scale.
There's people who are uploading like 500 variations of the exact same low res shitty ai image and literally the only difference is very slight angle changes, you can't do that as an actual artist even drawing a shitty drawing takes a lot more time and effort.
Same with documentaries for instance there's so many shitty ai generated '' documentaries '' being uploaded with new channels and they already have 100+ videos no actual human made documentarian can do that.
Big backlash against it as there should be we literally pay taxes for that garbage, and they just generate some dumb brain rot slop and pocket the money...
I disagree I do think it's worse by being ai at least bad slop made by humans has some actual effort and humanity in it even if it's bad.
But even if I agreed the issue still is that ai crap can be generated so quickly en masse on a level that humans can't, so the spam becomes like 500 trillion times worse because now EVERYONE can do it and they can do it on a massive scale.
There's people who are uploading like 500 variations of the exact same low res shitty ai image and literally the only difference is very slight angle changes, you can't do that as an actual artist even drawing a shitty drawing takes a lot more time and effort.
Same with documentaries for instance there's so many shitty ai generated '' documentaries '' being uploaded with new channels and they already have 100+ videos no actual human made documentarian can do that.
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Aesius
Member
Yeah, I don't mind it at all (although it made my 5-year-old son start calling everyone "bro").
It's funny, my wife and I are thrilled when our kids want to watch stuff from our childhood or slightly later because it's actually structured and has a cohesive narrative. Dora the Explorer was after my time and is annoying, but it's still miles better than YouTube slop, so we don't mind turning it on for them. They've also gotten into the original Magic School Bus lately, which is awesome (and is straight from our own childhoods).
Lucie Goosey
Member
All these things, and we as human beings can also realize that how we raise our children will effect us as adults later in life, whether when they become teenagers, or adults who collectively change society themselves, or us as grandparents seeing our own parenting come back to us, or when we're old and needing to be taken care of again. The consequences of our actions never escape us.
Madflavor
Member
Magic Schoolbus, Doug, Rugrats, Hey Arnold, all good shows that stand the test of time imo.