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2. youtube is being swamped with faked up ai crap especially relating to popular music history, military history etc

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2026, 06:26 PM

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this is being done because youtube rewards it by paying for views. one channel I noticed the other day had posted dozens of vids in just a week or so, most obvious fakes

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