Thread 23103390

Sign this petition
https://chng.it/qqvBkPCc7H

Yeah I know everything does, at least YouTube is finally recommending me more of what I wanna watch

>>23103397
>at least YouTube is finally recommending me more of what I wanna watch
that's dumb

no shit there's literally a watch history window

>>23103401
that doesn't imply there's an AI

i'm gonna fucking kill myself you stupid fucks

>>23103403
It means that what you watched was never touted as private in the first place. It would be different if they were storing this data without users knowing

>>23103399
Call it what you want,but your actions have always been tracked in every way it's just noticeable now

>>23103414
i guess it would be differnt, yeah

>>23103414
>>23103416
does anyone remember the "facebook whistleblower" on 60 minutes like 2 years ago?
or the leaked internal research from instagram showing increased suicide rates in teenagers?
i guess this is all free will, free market etc

i didn't read OPs petition, and i don't think petitions do anything
no reason to defend these companies though

>>23103420
whataboutism
shut the fuck up retard, meds
etc

Who is impacted?
Millions of YouTube users—especially teens and adults—will soon be affected by a new AI-based age detection system launching August 13th. This system analyzes your entire watch history and behavior to estimate your age, overriding the age you've set on your account. If the system thinks you're underage, you'll be locked out of content unless you upload your government-issued ID—putting your personal information at serious risk.

What is at stake?
This isn’t just about age restriction—it’s about mass surveillance and data control. Similar measures are spreading fast: the UK’s Online Safety Act has already led to censorship and demands for ID. In Australia, YouTube is being restricted for those under 16. Spotify is now requiring ID in some regions. Games are being banned from Steam and itch.io. This pattern—justified as “protecting kids”—is being used to normalize invasive tracking and limit freedom online.

Why is now the time to act?
This policy goes into effect on August 13th, and we cannot allow YouTube to quietly implement AI surveillance that violates privacy and autonomy. Once these systems are normalized, they rarely go away—they expand. If we don't speak up now, we risk losing our ability to browse, create, and enjoy content freely. This is about more than YouTube. This is about digital freedom.

I don't know about you, but I don't want AI and companies tracking everything I do, with all my personal information going who knows where. This is an attempt to acquire user data, and blatant censorship hidden behind a thin veil of ''protect the kids!'' We cannot allow this to escalate further.

>>23103425
>We cannot allow this to escalate further.
they'll keep boiling the frog and no one will do anything

>>23103428
that's obviously an ai post anon

>>23103441
no, it's obviously the description from the petition in OPs post

>>23103444
dafuq, did they write it with AI... what's with the overuse of em dashes

>>23103449
true
i guess it's just that guys writing style, using dashes instead of commas

kind of annoying though once you notice it lol

>>23103451
Chatgpt has a tendency to use em dashes

>>23103464
It's from the petition. Just because it has dashes doesn't mean it's ai.

>>23103464
does it?

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>>23103474
yes it's a widely mentioned thing that especially distinguishes AI posts on forums because no one types forum posts with em dashes

>don't log
>personalisation settings and cookies => refuse all
>clean cookies regularly
>test your fingerprinting (https://amiunique.org/fingerprint) and change your web browser if you have shit result
>renew IP several times a week
Welcome to 2025.

>>23103489
i was hoping you'd show examples of its writing or something
>>23103500
bwaaa

grok is this real, does youtube actually use an ai to scrape your watch data and assign you some arbitrary age depending on what you watch

>>23103420
the reason the kids want to commit suicide and take violent action against the schools is not instagram, you utter faggot.

try actually talking to a school age child about school, who isn't a black chick.

>>23103506
@grob

>>23103511
oh ok

>>23103513
the entire school system is demoralizing for men.
it treats us like absolute garbage.
the reason we keep shooting at our teachers, is because they don't see us as human.

so why shouldn't we return the favor?

>>23103517
>so why shouldn't we return the favor?
because it just increases social tension and makes the mess bigger

>>23103504
I don't know if they made it use them less often but it'll spit them out eventually. I'm not a chatgpt enthusiast Idk. People might use em dashes in a formal description like that, but you can tell when people are using it to write posts sometimes because no one writes 4chan posts like that.
>>23103511
>and take violent action against the schools
you're adding another thing here he was just talking about proof of increased suicide rates when using instagram

>>23103517
>the entire school system is demoralizing for men.
>it treats us like absolute garbage.
>the reason we keep shooting at our teachers, is because they don't see us as human.
i agree with you
instagram as well though

the internal research said what it said, and though the source is my ass & i can't give any further details, these companies don't tend to make mistakes of that kind

>>23103535
>because no one writes 4chan posts like that.
yeah
but because of the context, i figured he was pasting the petition description
he posted it right after i said "i didn't read OPs petition, but..."

>>23103541
Yes that's what I did
>>23103422
Maybe you're right. The petition might be worthless, but it's better than doing nothing. All you have to do is sign it.

>>23103506
It's active now. You can check on your account.

They spy on you a lot worse than that zoomer

>>23103425
They've been doing this shit for 20 years.

>>23103506
>does youtube actually use an ai to scrape your watch data and assign you some arbitrary age depending on what you watch
youtube doesn't have to "scrape your watch data", they're the ones who server the videos, they already have the data
scraping data has nothing to do with AI
AI is used with data you already have

>who server the videos
who serve the videos*

>>23103749
they've been boiling the frog for 20 years
AI age classification is what this thread is about though

>>23103535
Nobody uses em dashes at all. It's not on the keyboard

>>23103758
>Nobody uses em dashes at all
that doesn't follow from it not being on the keyboard
it's possible they'd be used in something supposedly formal, like that petition description

>>23103749
Yeah but it's getting worse.

>>23103741
can you see your "projected" age anywhere officially or is it some strictly behind the scenes set of parameters
>>23103752
that's fucked up

>>23103803
it won't be public what they think your age is
that would only help people avoid the detection
you'll either be classified as an adult or not, and it'll come out of nowhere
then you can dispute the AI decision by showing youtube your ID

you can try to avoid it by spam watching videos that they might think kids would watch, but that seems like a waste of time

that theym ight think adults would watch*

>>23103390 (OP)
Oh damn forgot it was the 13th, did a takeout of my playlists/subscriptions and deleted my account (finally).

>>23104013
based
to me the only really sad part is how youtube was basically used as a library of alexandria for almost 20 years, and now all that shit is gonna be locked out by broken search engines & restrictions, then buried under AI and short-form videos
looking at an interesting commenters subscriptions/playlists was one of the last ways to find interesting stuff for a while
now subscriptions are private by default, i'm sure they'll break playlists as well

all sorts of music uploaded 12 years ago & earlier, that can't be found anywhere else
it'll be gone

>>23104046
why? it will still be there and might even pop on your feed if you're lucky with the algorithm
they've been raping our data for years now, so I don't feel it matters
I'm more concerned about AI reading our personal chats and so on 24/7 desu

>>23104113
>I'm more concerned about AI reading our personal chats and so on 24/7 desu
the only difference, in that regard, between AI and search engines, is that AI is a few steps closer to directly viewing the users thought process
but there's sophisticated techniques to predict people from very small amounts of data anyway
i don't know, i guess people also try to shoehorn in AI instead of doing things themselves, using it likes an IRL quality of life mod
in that regard, it might be more INVASIVE than search engines, so it's worse in that way as well
>they've been raping our data for years now, so I don't feel it matters
that is just learned helplessness, but there is somethign to be said for not worrying about any of it
>why? it will still be there and might even pop on your feed if you're lucky with the algorithm
i don't think it will be there in practice
there's no luck to what you find in recommendations anymore lol

>>23104122
the current recommendations are usually completely unrelated to the video you're watching so I hope they MIGHT at least change that
yt won't delete this music, you can always find and bookmark it manually, it won't be that different to what people were doing in ye olden days of the internet (basically even in the 00s)

>>23104145
>yt won't delete this music, you can always find and bookmark it manually, it won't be that different to what people were doing in ye olden days of the internet (basically even in the 00s)
they'll remove easy access from just bookmarking the link for sure
you can bookmark links to songs on spotify, but they randomly become inaccessible without payment or ads or an ID or whatever

>>23104145
>the current recommendations are usually completely unrelated to the video you're watching so I hope they MIGHT at least change that
i hope so too
i miss when it was more random