just heard about another experiment YT is doing: the "can't decide what to watch" button, which redirects the user to YT shorts from the mobile app. can't help thinking that YT simply aims to embrace the idiots as their mainstream consumer market.
and now this. i kept hearing that gen-z folks don't have the same "long" attention span as people who were born in 80s and 90s, and "they need a different way to learn" and here's where the video tutorials come into the picture. i still think this is BS, as the usual way of writing and reading books/papers - what served humanity as the go-to tool for passing knowledge to the next generation for at least 400 years - suddenly is not good enough.
now even watching videos isn't fast enough, we need some GAN language model to produce a(n unbiased? accurate? non-manipulative? not-greed-driven?) summary of it. Gathering knowledge is fun but at the same time requires effort, and there's no problem with that. if anyone doesn't like the idea of focusing on stuff in order to understand it and we change the world so they can save get it for free, then we're heading into the wrong direction.
i was expecting these platforms to be different, not carbon copy the TV, but here we are: you get countless useless ads shoved into your face and show-me-something is their best product.
i totally lost faith in humanity. looks like we don't need to wait 500 years to arrive into idiocracy - we have a fast path.
owww, my ballz.