Guess My YouTube Account Likes AI Slop, Now
We have my in-laws in for a week, and we play...a lot of games. We have a list we work through (card games like 31, Snowbird Rummy, Swoosh, Uno, Five Crowns, etc; board games like Ticket to Ride [various editions], ...), and one of the unspoken rules is the need to have music going in the background. Typically this is some Sonos Radio station, given that we have a gen 1 Play:5 on the main floor. And that's fine, until someone decides they want something very specific. Today, that was my father-in-law wanting Dean Martin's Christmas album. Which is available on YouTube, so my partner asked me to put that on.
So I did, and YouTube being YouTube, the full album's up, but the first result plays AI slop underneath: a train moving through a snowy landscape, people lit incredibly brightly within.
There's no escape from this, is there? It's not enough to just put an album over a still image, like people used to, now it has to be AI horseshit? And granted, I'm not generally looking at the TV when we're playing games, but when we're taking breaks, like I am right now, writing, this, it's going in the corner of my peripheral vision, and all the while, Google will think that this is something I want to watch, and maybe I'd like to watch more like this later?
Looking forward to going back to the Sonos later, and especially after everyone's home after Christmas. At least when I stream my music, it only streams my music, and nothing else. Kind of sad that doing something well feels like the domain of older tech.