On YouTube, videos featuring these bizarre and overwrought tales are proliferating, claiming Trump-world figures bested their antagonists during micro-interactions: at restaurants, on the street, in little-known court cases, and on late-night talk shows. These videos often generate thousands of views and a flood of supportive comments—and they’re all completely fake.

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    Who is watching this slop? Are we sure there are real people watching it, or is it just AI watching AI?

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        Recommend not letting old people use YouTube unattended. Same for children.

        Really, no one should be using most of YouTube. It’s a big ol’ cognito-hazard.

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          Don’t have the time to keep them from watching misinformation and AI slop on YouTube all the time, unfortunately.

          While there’s not much I can do about stopping them from searching for and watching right-wing extremism, I can at least keep YouTube itself from recommending it by telling the algorithm not to recommend certain channels.

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    would something like this be illegal under the Take It Down act or is it just AI fakes that make Trump look bad

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      I mean, YouTube has let all sorts of horrible things fester on their platform. Anti-vax stuff, far right extremism, climate denial stuff. They’ve got blood on their hands and I wouldn’t be sad if their leadership was hanged.

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    to think we can’t have cheap videogame cards anymore because of this slop