Folks here are missing the point blaming LTT for the drop. This has been a sudden drop, too sudden to be fatigue or audience tastes changing.

Also I can see the same on my own channel. About 2 weeks ago views suddenly dropped to a third of the usual views. And even high performing videos have had trouble getting views since. Even videos with a high impression percentage are getting lower than average views.

The same wsd also reported by Second Wind (old Zero Punctuation) and their experience is the same: way too sudden drop to be anything else except YouTube adjusting their algorithm.

Yeah, it's easy to bark at influencer we don't like.

Companies are free to use labor from anywhere, but make sure we can't get their products from anywhere.

This is interesting, because a judge just let Meta off the hook for downloading copyrighted works from pirate sites and even using Metas vast infrastructure to try to hide it. It's curious that Anthropic has to pay and Meta doesn't.

They're wrong, my channel has under 4% viewers in the up to 18 year segment, this effect is way bigger than if I lost then completely. Also my channel features no swearing or inappropriate content so, it should not affect it at all if this was the case.

15% of content can easily come from under 1% of users.

AI slop most likely. Well, to be serious, I think the drop is due to them trying to fight AI slop and miserably failing.

That also wouldn't have a drastic immediate effect. On the long term this is likely to eat some views of long form content.

Yes, but even if they hid everything I have from teens and suspended teens, the drop would be way less. And that's why I think they are wrong about the reason for the drop.

Couldn't really find what they are doing with AI. There are acceptable uses so, would prefer to know before going either way.

That clarifies it, so Anthropic kinda chickened out and considered it safer to make this a cost of doing business thing.

True, but a platform where your income is dependent on an ever changing algorithm is not something a business can handle. Changes like that will drive away major channels and make them start to look for alternatives.

AI assistance in coding or accessibility is not enshittification.

Came here to say this! Containers is awesome, and you can muffin to the same service with different accounts in the same window!

Very true. And it's very worrying that so much of global online business is literally dependent of Googles good will.

This sounds completely benign. Jumping ship for stuff like this is absurd.

Not impossible. The best revenue for Google would be if they could ai generate all the content themselves.

They have. Smaller catalogs, more ads, more restrictions, more extra services pushed to users...

I don't really think a blanket prohibition on anything AI related is useful. This doesn't really ring like anything problematic.

Isn't like most development partially AI these days? Even Linux development. If the platform itself isn't going AI, I don't really see an issue here.