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canetoad

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5. A new attempt at fooling the viewers

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Original post)

Fri Apr 17, 2026, 11:10 PM

17 hrs ago

They put something like "3 Minutes ago....." in the title of the video. Look at the upload timestamp from YouTube - days, months or years old.

Edit: As Luv2fly said above - it's not necessarily AI, rather unscrupulous channel owners.

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So I'm tootling around on you tube, [View all] mwmisses4289 18 hrs ago OP

I share your hatred of ai slop. SheltieLover 18 hrs ago #1

And it's permeating everything! mwmisses4289 18 hrs ago #2

Sadly it is. SheltieLover 17 hrs ago #3

It's the creator luv2fly 17 hrs ago #4

The creator itself (i.e. prompter) may well be AI too, as could be the entity that requested AIs to make such prompts 0rganism 15 hrs ago #8

A new attempt at fooling the viewers canetoad 17 hrs ago #5

About half the internet traffic is AI and bots. usonian 16 hrs ago #6

I like animals. BidenRocks 16 hrs ago #7

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower was in flames in the Hormuz Strait Submariner 15 hrs ago #9

Yan Lecun aside it is a field I fear jfz9580m 15 hrs ago #10