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Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

futurism.com Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.

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When I was a kid in the early 2000's we were vibing to a funny song about a famous pedophile, watching pictures of dead people on rotten.com and ofcourse porn on the late night tv. We also had candy resembling tobacco products as well as ones with racist names.
I think new parents especially often seem to forget all the similar things they did as a child and then apply different standards to their own kids. Yeah, it's not optimal, but they're probably going to grow up just fine.
- Millennials have higher rates of mental illness than previous generations. We are far from fine.
  
  I'd imagine an increasingly hostile world economy coupled with a then-looming but now beginning climate crisis might have a huge impact there.
  
  There are multiple possible explanations for that. I don't see any direct link between the kind of content we millenials consumed in our childhood and the apparent rise in the number of mental health cases. I'd be willing to bet that the time spent consuming said content plays a much bigger factor.
  
  Hard to believe this isn't simply due to improved detection, reporting and treatment options.
  
  Gen X and boomers still go to the Dr and undergo depression screenings, yet Gen X has roughly half the rates of depression as gen z and millennials. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9934502/
  
  The key metric would be to review care detection and frequency at the same chronological age of participants, not simply today.
- At least those horrible things required human effort to make, so there was a limited quantity. An unlimited supply of content that a human had no part in making is completely new territory
  
  It's not obvious to me why the non-human origin matters here. Eventually AI will get so good that you can't even tell the difference, or if you can, it's because it's so high quality.
  In my mind the meat of the issue is the amount of time we spend watching that content, and less so who made it.
  
  Non human origin matters because it's easy to flood the field with this stuff.
  If finding quality videos becomes a needle in a haystack amidst ai generated bullshit, each looking to passively earn a few bucks, overall quality of life will suffer as the ouroboros eats its tail.
- I remember candy cigarettes. My favorite was the one that also double as gum. But guess I miss the racist candy? Or did I not get the racism?
  
  But guess I miss the racist candy?
  I don't know it either, but I feel like when someone clarifies, I'll be like "Oh... OHH! That."
  
  This one comes to mind
  Negro cukorka
- Pretty sure that's every generation in relation to the next: https://arapahoelibraries.org/blogs/post/generational-blame-a-brief-history/

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