Hahaha - I used to have an engine with twin SU carburetors - there was a real learning curve to get them balanced and tuned correctly. While they ran nice when balanced - they needed tuning way too often for my tastes...
dj
Was this video for real or just click bait?
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dj
Yes, such a thing is possible and actually pretty trivial to set up. My point is that this is a tool for creating content - a tool that people are using. An AI agent did not wake up one day and decide, "I'm going to make some crappy videos today." The fault, here, lies not with AI but with users of AI tools.
But ... this also speaks to the now-familiar internet adage - if you can't figure out what they are selling, you are the product. YouTube doesn't charge most users - the viewer is the product. That's the unfortunate problem, here. YouTube actually isn't incentivized to do anything about the problem. As long as click-bait produces clicks, this serves their business model. Not that YouTube exactly WANTS to be a click-bait service, but they also don't want to turn away money.
The second problem is that people think they want higher quality content, but their behavior reveals another pattern. They click on click-bait, often knowing what it is, and spend way more time watching suggested videos that gravitate toward lower quality content. There is quite a bit of great content out there, but people spend much less time watching it. Case and point - we are here discussing this video and generating more interest in it - even knowing what it is. Unfortunately, people love garbage, despite what they might say or think.
The only real solution is, if some content is or seems to be garbage, don't engage with it. Every time you look at it, discuss it, or search for it, you validate the model. In the economy of eyes=money, there is no such thing as bad press.