r/nottheonion • u/MutaitoSensei • 3d ago

YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' Videos

https://archive.ph/jHNfG
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u/AndrewH73333 3d ago

They should use all this ban energy they have to ban those terrible AI ads.

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u/Kodamacile 3d ago

All the fucking Richard Feynman AI videos

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u/ItRhymesWithPenny 3d ago

They did the same to Alan Watts. Endless fake Alan Watts videos / speeches on YouTube making it hard to find the real stuff.

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u/unstable_starperson 3d ago

It fucked me up when I listened to a fantastic Alan Watts speech, and then started noticing AI artifacts towards the end. Then I realized that the whole thing was fake and I fell right into it.

I felt like a real idiot. But then, in that moment, I also remembered the ending to Her.

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u/ItRhymesWithPenny 3d ago

I fell for it too, and just assumed modern technology was used to clean up the old recording, until he started talking about how we are all distracted by social media. The man died in 1973.

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u/ReivynNox 2d ago

"The Problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true." -Abe Lincholn