I’ve stopped YouTube because of AI

I had a YouTube account so that I could make videos (of my system playing my music to monitor changes). With that being a Google program, I had to accept that Google would be monitoring all my YouTube viewing (minimally) and those algorithms.

Google builds algorithms around my viewing so that those subjects are the only videos I seem to find. Rather than opening up the viewer to new and varied content, I get the same ol’ same ol’, which shrinks my World down to a repeat of a narrow selection of subjects.

There are ways to escape this imposed mental prison, ask questions about some obscure place in the world, historical event, philosopher or scientific phenomenon and you’ll get new video subjects added to your algorithm. However, if interest doesn’t continue in one specific outlier, the selection returns to the same ol’ same ol’.

Some of those same ol’ same ol’ videos were American police-civilian interactions caught on phone cameras showing incidents where the police obviously contravened the civilian’s civil rights. At first they were equally divided between those released by an ex-sheriff, and those released by a civil rights lawyer but then I started getting those by individual “auditors” who provoke police reactions by video recording people in post offices, or from the sidewalk outside prisons or banks. They’re just assholes.

More and more now I am getting AI- generated videos of fake police-civilian interactions. They typically have some click-bait photo of a muscle-bound cop with a crazy expression on their face punching or choking some civilian with a expression of pure terror on their face. If you hit on the video, you hear this pleasant computer-generated voice show a photo (selected from the internet) of a smiling man and woman driving in a car. The voice starts: “John and Mary are a on their way to visit John’s parents in Detroit. John and Mary are from Wichita where John works as a firefighter (photo of a fire station with firemen standing in front, none of which are the guy driving in the car) and Mary teaches at Hillsborough elementary school (classroom filled with kids, teachers not Mary). Both are regular attendees at their local church and recently help build a new annex on back (photo of different people on a roof adding shingles). This “story” goes on and on, I guess the purpose is to keep one viewing as long as possible, but it is all fake, AI-generated stories intended to give you the content you were looking for according to algorithm. Aarrrgh!

Anyway, I’ve cancelled my subscription to YouTube. I still get it as part of my Sky subscription on TV and am trying hard not to watch when there is nothing else on.

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The enshitification of all things.

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Indeed.

Because we’ve all been waiting for the supercharged horseshit that AI enables.

The ordinary horseshit just wasn’t cutting it, apparently. With luck, the whole shitty mess will disappear up its own arse. OTOH, mankind has already demonstrated that truth serves no useful purpose any more, so what fucking difference does it make…

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And there I was, thinking how great it’d be to have our future mapped out by barely beyond adolescent tech geeks with minimal life experience, social skills, political nous or cultural depth.

Who knew it might not turn out well?

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Just to be on the safe side: I for one welcome our new tech geek gods and their brilliantly-implemented crowbarring of poorly-thought-through, half-baked technology to control everything we consume, do, and think, at the cost of gigantic energy and resource consumption, and am quite certain nothing can possibly go wrong and that ALL of the money should indeed be in the hands of a tiny number of severely autistic sociopathic manchildren Siri turn this into a grammatical sentence please thanks.

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My online ads currently consist of:

How to make millions by mastering AI.

How to become a middle-aged superman in a week via Tai Chi.

And not forgetting the self-help books, all of which may as well be called ‘You are fucking awesome and everyone else is a cunt. Find enlightenment by learning how to fuck them all until they bleed out of every orifice.’

Kill me now.

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Bring back Ceefax. It was a high point.

Who predicted that?

Fucking tragedy.

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I mean, that does sound like an appealing approach to life.

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It’s the title of my first self-published book.

It’ll sell.

Will be shit, of course.

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But who gives a fuck.

I mean, really, does anyone care any more?

Jesus H Christ, I need to lie down for a while.

Fucking cunts on the internet.

They’re everywhere.

The Zombie Apocalypse has arrived.

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The internet is, to all intents and purposes, over. Not that there isn’t anything of value, but it’s largely corrupted and impossible to rely on for anything verifiable. AI has eaten it. I think that the smart path now is to start to take steps to save ones consciousness by gradually withdrawing from it. Delete apps from phone, avoid mainstream media, etc etc. I’m about 2 months into not looking at news websites anymore, and I feel so much better. Literally my only source of global information now is what people actually tell me in person, and what everyone on here says, discussing things after the event. I’m way way less agitated. I’m literally using this place as a filter (LOL).

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Fucking hell.

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Haha!! Yeah I know.. but it’s way more entertaining

Edit: To be fair I do still use Instagram, but every time I’m on it, I prune accounts that feed me anything that disrupts my headspace, or aims to. It’s gradually becoming a purely aesthetic/humorous diversion, as opposed to a source of slanted bias/indoctrination.

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My new laptop has an AI key.

A key to unleash the AI.

I’ve no clue what it does.

Maybe I’ll tape over it.

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Just tape it down, what’s the worst that could happen?

I don’t know.

Truly.

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Weirdly, beneath all the baubles and glitz, available today. I do think there’s an intrinsic human hunger for what’s real. I’m clinging to that—hoping actual intelligence outshines artificial. This hope will doubtless dissolve the day screens can suck a penis. To this end I thought I’d ask Chat GBT:

"When will artificial intelligence be able to make me orgasm? "

Short answer: for some people, it already can—but only via connected devices, and results vary a lot.

Here’s the state of play (kept non-graphic):

  • Today: App-controlled toys (“teledildonics”) can already sync patterns to AI chat, voice, or music. Some setups use wearables/biofeedback (heart rate, motion) so the AI adapts intensity in real time. Whether that leads to orgasm depends on the person more than the model.
  • Near term (1–3 years): Better multi-modal AI (voice + vision + haptics) and on-device personalization will make responses feel more attuned, with less lag and more privacy.
  • Medium term (3–7 years): Wider use of closed-loop systems—AI reading bio signals (e.g., HRV, skin conductance) to fine-tune stimulation—likely makes outcomes more consistent for more users.

How many Google searches will ‘teledildonics’ be receiving this evening?

I bet it does

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