I like to type in things and add videos to a watch later list I often put on at bedtime to fall asleep to.
There are so many with AI voice overs now. Even though many of those voices are quite good, they all start to sound exactly the same in modulation, cadence, etc. They narrate as images, paintings, and bits of nonsensical art float across the screen.
It looks like a documentary an actual YouTuber would produce, but it's not.
And there's no editing. It's crazy. The people posting don't seem to notice when the documentary repeats the topic almost word for word. I was listening to one the other day, and it was like, "This is the third time I've heard this exact same three paragraph spiel." You can tell the scripts have been run through ChatGPT or similar.
We shall not get into the errors. I have run across some big ones. Just try being knowledgeable about, say, the Wars of the Roses, and then make it through one of these AI documentaries. They get entire names and sequences of events wrong.
Astronomy videos are getting bad about this as well. They just repeat nonsense over and over and over until it becomes a kind of unintelligible background noise while constantly flashing windows wallpapers across the screen. I was listening to one about black hole formation where I wasn't sure if I was having a stroke, because I couldn't follow the nonsensical word spew.
More and more, I'm scaling down to only going with channels run by humans I'm familiar with. People like ASMR Historian or podcasts by actual credentialed historians.
It's kind of a shame, because I really enjoyed smaller channels who were putting that kind of content out there for the love of the game, but now they're getting crowded out by the sheer volume of empty content that gets pumped out in increasingly vast quantities.
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