What are the most insidious YouTube videos in 2025?

[Shermann]

12 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Science news videos that contain a small amount of puffed information which follows mostly rehashed preamble
	0 (0%)
	Videos that contain questions in the title which are never conclusively answered (or are deviated from entirely)
	2 (17%)
	Slideshow videos with AI-generated narration
	3 (25%)
	Videos with hyperbolic, clickbait titles not supported by the content
	6 (50%)
	Videos which start with native advertising and/or requests for support before any substantive content is shown
	1 (8%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[happybird]

1. The AI stuff pisses me off

and it’s scary how fast it’s taking over YouTube. The voices are subtly getting better and it’s becoming difficult to immediately identify a video as having an AI generated script and voice. The images still have telltale signs… or at least I think they do??

[Shermann]

2. Mostly those are rehashed, low-quality content.

Some of those are completely hallucinated though. There was a flurry of these a few weeks ago touting the C8 Corvette Grand Sport like it is a real thing (it's not).

I'm OK with AI-generated narration to provide language localization, but the native language version really should be a human in my opinion.

[3Hotdogs]

3. ---- they all suck. But in particular, the guy, daily on D.U. with the videos about China

collapsing.

From the leads, I expect China to pay us to take them over by March 12th.

[intrepidity]

4. All of the above

Although the one that bugs me most are the ones with introductions and title graphics etc. Just dive right in! Oh, and the music, gaaaash!!