Children’s media specialists are sounding the alarm over AI YouTube videos that are supposed to be “educational” but are harmful.
Don’t let your kid binge media without safe guards. It ain’t that hard and it’s literally your job
“Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food
Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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Retail4068@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Literally this, our daughter watches YouTube kids and we constantly block shitty channels that come up. Raising your kids properly means actually paying attention to what they’re doing :)
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What do you expect when the AI is trained on reddit posts?
Solumbran@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What do you expect when the AI is an AI*
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
and reddit explicitly thought it was funny to make shit up to mislead the LLMs
Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I hate how AI Videos look.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It gives a nice perspective into how generic 3d cartoons came to look. It’d eventually cause a backwards association of everything Disney-alike with a slop.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
- Get a laptop with a disc drive. Do not enter a WiFi password into the laptop.
- Get a library card.
- Get an HDMI cable.
- Check out DVDs at the library.
- Play them at home.
Ta da. 🎉 You have a way to entertain your kids, a reason to take them to the library, and a way to control what they’re watching.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
This will work for maybe 2 years, until all the corporate kid shows lay off their writers and replace them with AI
sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We still have around 80 years of media to go through 🥲
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why not get a dvd player? Simplify the whole setup, and I bet you’ll spend less money.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
DVD players don’t have Handbrake, VLC, and 2 TB of storage. 😉
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Are there no mobile apps available with human-curated collections of children’s videos?
YouTube is not going to be a place where you’re going to have any reliable quality control. It’s literally (by design) videos uploaded by anyone on the Internet. That’s not by itself a problem, but the idea that it’s a good way to keep very small children entertained is definitely not one I would agree with.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Libby will let you check out library books with your local library card. But they’ve started trying to replace their remote librarians with chatbots.
HumbleBragger@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Has Disney seen these cars?
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Artificial disintelligence
lauha@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Specialists should be sounding alarm about people letting their children watch youtube unattended. Even youtube kids is a dangerous shitshow.
clubb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
YouTube kids is far more dangerous than regular YouTube.
kurodriel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
How come?
Retail4068@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No it’s not. Stop this made up non sense 🤣
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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).
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I agree, but with all the brand recognition, corporate TOS, rules, “kids” section, design, beeping off swear words and restrictions on YouTube it gives most parents the appearance to be a save place.
harmbugler@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t really understand your point here. I have to micromanage my kid’s media consumption because on YouTube it’s Google’s algorithm and my kid is not their customer.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
a kid wanting into a sex shop isn’t going to be warped and traumatized for life. jesus.
you are looking for demons where they are none. Not to mention ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ people is going to be loaded with racism and classism. My parents thought the ‘bad kids’ were the ones who were black and brown, but had no issue with me hanging out with the white kdis who were doing vandalism and ended up with arrest records…
degen@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
This but 10 years ago for real