The Death of Educational Content on YouTube

One of the bigger issues of the internet - AI slop, broken down by one of the best educational/documentary channels on youtube - fern.

An incredibly well-put video about how AI damages educational content, society, trust and integrity of major social media platforms. They explain, very simply, how an easy access to the cheap and fast tools for generating correct-looking, coherent-sounding but confidently wrong content is dangerous not only for the platform, but for the consumers as well.

Shortly said - it's better to not have information than to have false information you believe is true.

I'm speechless about the production quality - everything is extremely well-made, thoughtful, intentional, detailed and backed-up. Visuals, SFX, pacing, narrating, the story itself, and most importantly, passion is just top notch, imo.

Personally? It gave me far more surface to look out for when expanding Cabin from embedder to an authentic hoster of creators in the future. A lot of very valuable information. I also saw how real the AI-fatigue is in the content area, which fed my motivation even further as a nice side bonus.

- aleksi