• Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    What with the weird freebooting article? This ‘article’ is just a description of Alec’s video with the clickbait cranked up to ten. Gotta love a major corporation using small creators’ work for free ad revenue…

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      5 months ago

      I’m fairly sure that the image is even a screenshot from the video. Uncredited I notice.

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        5 months ago

        It is, I just watched the video an hour or so ago.

        edit: In fact, until I read this thread, I didn’t notice the URL and thought this was a link to the video.

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      5 months ago

      That’s enough YouTube videos just recapping an article. But I agree it’s lazy

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      5 months ago

      This is how hackaday posts have been… for like a decade. I guess it’s somewhere between articles and link aggregator.

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        5 months ago

        Doesn’t mean this is good content I think belongs here. The original video that links to a transcript and a source article do belong here. You want a description cause you don’t want to watch it? go feed the link into chat got. Or ask in the comments. I’m gonna call out corpo freebooting bullshit when I see it and it doesn’t belong on lemmy.

        Sorry, I’m pissy rn.

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          5 months ago

          Damn! I never even thought about sending it YouTube links. I might try doing that with some of those “retrospective” videos that are hours long.

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          5 months ago

          Sure, that’s a fair opinion. I just don’t share it. I wouldn’t have known about this video in the first place. Also I don’t care to use AI summaries.

          Coincidentally I was also a fan of the described functionality on batteries and I have used it gladly and without hurting myself. So that clearly makes me different from the vast majority of people here in the comments.

          I may have been just as happy with the original article the video is based on, who knows. But since that wasn’t shared here I preferred this one over the video.

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      5 months ago

      And Alec’s video is mostly a freeboot off someone’s article.

      So this is a full on article and YouTube circle jerk.

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        5 months ago

        You know there’s a difference between using sources and just regurgitating a summary of something with AI right?

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              I guess you’re right because I didn’t properly look at the hackaday article.

              Alec has paraphrased the Tedium article. All of the talking points of Alec’s video is in the article.

              The hackaday article just summarised the 16 minute video into 4 short paragraphs and linked to Alec’s video.

              Edit: I like interactions like this (the comment thread since my first comment) because it highlights how easy it is for people to make judgements based on a lack of knowledge. It reminds me to try to not make assumptions.

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          5 months ago

          You clearly haven’t looked at either article. Parasocial relationships are weird.