Idk if Marxists have already made videos about them.
I got a call from my mum recently saying that my dad was watching stuff on YouTube that had “a robot voice”. I knew immediately that this was content farm crap and had to send my dad a detailed and politely written email to warn him about not watching this shit. Of course, it’s never going to get deleted because Google make money from this drivel too. Honestly, it’s another reason to stop using Google stuff completely, including YouTube. For me YT really is a last resort and usually it’s for computer stuff, gaming hints, and teardown videos for a repair. Fuck Google, ironic that it has literally turned into the most evil company on the internet.
I did look at content farm warning videos to send to my dad but they were all a bit rubbish - most warn about content farm stuff designed for children. Definitely didn’t see any leftist takes on content farms.
most warn about content farm stuff designed for children
This is what I’ve seen as well. I’m surprised there is farmed content for people like your dad, who is presumably an adult. What kind of stuff is he watching?
Science stuff, space stuff, WWII, current affairs, sometimes worryingly conspiracy-theory stuff too (no thanks to the algorithm and auto-play). If something is popular there are content farms for it - during my research I discovered how easy it is set up a content farm and automate the entire process on any topic you like. One video I watched looked specifically at space videos - there were farms with single channels dropping content several times a day with millions of subscribers and millions of views. I even found a 13-year-old video which claimed Google had “declared war on content farms” presumably that was before they realised they could make a shit-ton from them.
Now that you mention it it makes sense for this type of preposterous AI generated content exist too. Sometimes I wonder if the travesty that is the YouTube algorithm can be the subject of a class action lawsuit. The harm it does is incalculable.
