Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food

lauha@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• clubb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  YouTube kids is far more dangerous than regular YouTube.

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  • kurodriel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How come?

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    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/25233821

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  • Retail4068@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No it’s not. Stop this made up non sense 🤣

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    • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ehh. I find that regular YouTube will do a much better job at keeping on track with whatever kid stuff we put on than YouTube kids. I don’t put YouTube stuff on for the kids but my wife will throw on a bluey compilation or something when the tv is “not working” and usually it will stay on bluey related stuff. Even with the rest of the recommendations being “old fart yells about something related to open source” and “murder podcast”

      My wife used to put on YouTube kids but it would just go wild. We’d start with a bluey compilation and the next thing it would autoplay would be either some show for teenagers or an ai video where the characters sound like they’re constantly having an orgasm.

      My mother in law made the mistake of putting on YouTube kids a few months ago, my son wanted a specific paw patrol episode that she couldn’t find on whatever streaming service they use so she put it on YouTube. She said she put it on, went to do some dishes and a little bit later heard someone talking about beating and/or killing their parents.

      Now all their shows are on jellyfin with an account that only has access to their library. No surprises, nothing inappropriate, my in laws can access and navigate it easily.

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Heads up: If you’re looking for anything more, all of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood is on Internet Archive. My kid isn’t old enough to navigate anything like Jellyfin themselves yet, but it’s been a good calm show for when we need her to start settling down.

        I did need to rename them so they’d be recognized though, which was a pain in the ass.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Jellyfin is a honestly pretty good solution

        I miss the old Kids TV channels that were age appropriate, entertaining and educational

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• degen@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This but 10 years ago for real

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• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hear this a lot, but you have to put it in context. It used to be you could let your kids play outside in a nice neighbourhood. Your job as a parent was to make sure they went to play in a nice neighbourhood and at the houses of decent people. You could easily keep them away from bad places physically because they were separate places. Your neighbours would also tell you if they saw your kid in a bad place or being up to no good.

  The Internet destroys that concept. The good and the bad are one link away, you need constant vigilance and you have almost no help. It’s not healthy to micromanage your children’s media consumption. It’s like helicopter parents who never let their kids free. Setting this as the expectation isn’t healthy.

  I mean we don’t really have a choice, but acting like it’s okay for YouTube to lure my young kids into red pill content, or weird AI nonsense is pretty weird. Why are we just accepting this reality, should we not have some control over our algorithms. It’s basically what our neighbourhood used to be. Why are we saying it’s okay for YouTube to lure kids into dangerous content, and that is every parent’s job to constantly micromanage their kids media consumption as if that’s healthy parenting? It’s SURVIVAL parenting, not healthy parenting!

  We should be able to control our algorithms and help our kids control their algorithms because the solution isn’t constant fear and vigilance lest we get taken by the billionaire class and their dangerous ideology.

  It’s not normal that we created a space so fundamentally unsafe for kids. Very few physical spaces are like this in real life and I think you should try to imagine what would happen if a kid walked into a “non-kid” space like a sex shop or whatever. Because it’s not let the kid have unlimited access to porn and kink while we blame the parents. It’s usually a human worker working with the kid to get back to safety (usually their parents).

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