Speaking of AI content, is there a way to prevent AI videos from showing up on YouTube?

@ThirstenHowl

I have another question.

Is it possible that Youtube somehow can display content based on preferences they have drawn from your conversations in a different app?

My SO gets women that look like me in their feed. Which mofo is spying on us?

@ThirstenHowl is it the russians or the chinese?

Because they are mostly asian women

@Miram I've never noticed anything like YouTube showing me recommendations based on any activity outside of YouTube (mine always seem to be directly related to any other videos I've already watched), but it does make sense to me that Google could at least use your activity across other Google apps (like search, maps, Gmail) to influence it, perhaps even more so in A) a Chrome browser and/or B) on Android devices.

But from what I can tell, officially, any activity Google my collect data on outside of YouTube would mainly be used to determine what ads to show you. I use an adblocker (uBlock Origin) so maybe that's influencing my own uninteresting Google / YT experience. I'm also using a Firefox browser and using multiple Firefox "containers" to isolate activity (though I'm no longer using the Google Container browser extension, however that is an option you may want to consider, and you can use Firefox on Android too, if you aren't already). Containers would also make easy for you to manage multiple Google accounts for your different family members / homes with smart tvs.

I don't think even on Android Google / YT has any way to monitor what you do inside, say, Telegram though.

You can also potentially visit
https://myactivity.google.com
to fine-tune your Google account settings, to turn off the saving of Web and App activity, or turn auto-delete on, and such, and go also delete all of your YT history to "start over" so to speak if you feel like it would help.

I really can't say why your SO is being shown Asian women, are you sure he hasn't just watched some Asian-themed videos in the past, maybe even just viewing something like the interesting Chinese videos you have shared here on SW at times? If he is okay with parting with it, maybe ask him to either try deleting his YT history, or create a new channel under his account, to start browsing under, so it's a clean slate, to see if the Asian content changes (out of curiosity more than anything).

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As an aside about smart tv's, I thusfar don't like using the native YT app because then you have to watch ads, and the volume of the frequent ads may be many decibels louder than the movie or such you are watching, which is extremely annoying ... you might be able to address this with some complicated IP blocking in the router, but I just use an HDMI cable to hook my laptop to the tv long enough to watch a movie in Firefox, while still benefiting from my ad-blocker.

@SUPERVlXEN Unfortunately it’s going to become harder and harder to detect AI videos. I’ve been telling people that they’re like a plague spreading across social media. And there’s no way to control it. I can detect most AI videos but I know many people believe them to be real…if one person decides to use AI to spread misinformation on a large scale, we’re doomed. Maybe we already are.

@Younameit
They're already doing it.

@NerdyPotato give me links to the extensions or apps

@Miram just a few options, and upon further reading on them, some actually do claim to work on YouTube as well:

https://getaiblock.com/

https://www.aiblocker.com/

https://www.aicontentshield.app/

https://valerieaidetector.com/

@NerdyPotato Thank you

@pride49 there's Nebula, but of the amount of content is a bit limited. Of course that's a direct consequence of what you're asking though.

@NerdyPotato Too big and it gets the algorithms of death.

@pride49 that's the downside of YouTube indeed. That's why Nebula is a nice alternative and you can return to YouTube if you run out content there or something you want to watch isn't on there.