Sometimes you are lucky and that’s just shitty AI translation and you can still switch to original audio.
Usually when its ai voice you need to switch the audiochannel.
My YouTube feed is 9/10 in English and for some reason YouTube tries to force German ai voice on me :(
What’s been helpful recently is having a different native language than English. Coupled with the no translation extension that prevents YouTube’s AI from dubbing stuff I already understand, I sometimes get interesting and specific recommendations.
Otherwise, stick to known channels.
EDIT: The downside of speaking multiple languages with YouTube’s AI push is that it’s gonna try to translate everything to you as if you were monolingual. Set YouTube in English and it will translate everything in English, even if you speak French or German. Set YouTube In French and it will translate everything in French even if you can speak English. This shit is horrible.
This was never an issue for me. I almost exclusively use the “home” (I guess that’s “recommend”) part of the youtube app and very rarely get AI videos in any form (voice, images etc.). The few times it’s happened I do I just tap the three buttons and select “don’t recommend channel”. About 80% of videos shown are from channels I watch regularly and the rest are a random mix of interest relevant things with a few completely random ones here and there. Not once has it been any AI heavy anything.
Last time I looked, if you clicked on the thumbs down a new button appeared with some label like “don’t show me more stuff like this”.
Note on shorts they removed the thumbs down button shortly after AI slop became a huge thing in shorts.
That seems to indicate a certain direction to me.
Respect for using the “Le Me” format… It’s an older code but it checks out.
Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
where does one learn such power? I’m daily blocking the entire recommendation section to not getting nuts
Turn off history when signed in maybe? Turning it off seems to work for me. Most of my recommendations on the side when signed in are from channels I have already subscribed to, while I typically avoid clicking on channels and videos that have clickbait-y thumbnails or titles.
I’m sick of all the extremely shitty formulaic “Sci slop” channels with illustration mas by Chatgpt
