Keep in mind that not interested is for the subject matter. If it's a topic you are interested in, only use do not recommend channel.

Algorithm will shower you with crap whatever you do

Did work in my end, have to nuke it for a few times for the algorithm to adjust.

Yup, 'Don't recommend channel' every time! Just like businesses around town with AI logos, you can count me out.

I think it's funny when people show the suggested ai thumbnails in a community post or whatever making fun of it

Matt lowne did it a bit ago and it's kinda hilarious how awful the suggested thumbnails are
https://youtube.com/post/UgkxMgmzHZ4AMnR4CShol15LcikhaKsxXvl6

I suggest the BlockTube extension, which lets you block channels permanently.

those button's are like the pedestrian push buttons, they are there to give you a fake sense of agency

Why would you expected youtube to rule in on AI content where they are one the major factories for ai video content

Basks in the glory of Freetube and DeArrow

I can block channels and never see them again with Freetube. DeArrow means no stupid thumbnails.

i hate that so much posters, thumbnails, etc i am seeing recently suck so hard. ai thumbnails being just one part of how we just hate the art of communicating through design anymore. cram information!!!! just slap random things together!!! thats the way. i love good poster/thumbnail that i can save, print, hang, or just admire. some people took the wrong lesson from 'dont judge a book by its cover'

i have to disagree with the dearrow part. i find the idea really awful bc of two reasons:

1. it revokes my ability to be like 'oh thats a horrible thumbnail/ai generated thumbnail/clickbait i should block this channel'
2. anyone who puts effort to make great thumbnails has their art replaced by screenshot or random person making their own

what this 2 things mean is that those who intentionally make bad stuff are rewarded by making their thumbnails not appear horrible for me to block. while punishing those who respect the art by removing their efforts.

The problem with DeArrow is the zero subtlety with it. Realistically all I want it to do is replace clickbaity titles with actual descriptions so I know whether or not the video is worth clicking on. But it doesn't do that. Instead it obsesses about the thumbnail and to be honest the thumbnail isn't even really the big problem. If it's obviously AI generated then that's useful information to me. The title though...

I keep seeing people talk about AI posters for businesses and I've honestly not seen any, so either I'm really bad at spotting AI which I don't think I am, or it's a regional thing.

Yeah so that's a terrible thumbnail because I'm even less likely to click on it now.

AI generated thumbnails on a gaming video is just the very definition of insane.

Too bad those buttons do literally nothing. I stopped using youtube ages ago and just have a few channels I know to be good that I sub to via Freetube and watch on that.

You can adjust the settings to only change the title and leave the thumbnail. You can also see the orginal title/thumb by hovering over the blue dot next to the title (that might be a setting to enable it?)

I don't like dearrow's auto thumb generation (pick a random video frame) becuase the random frame is rarley relevent or descriptive. I have that turned off, if there's no user submitted frame, I'll see the original instead.

It doesn't seem to actually generate new descriptions though it just decapitolises them.

I just report them for offensive imagery

bless that this button exists. it's my only defense against clickbait and slop

I can't do that as I use dearrow...

Fr, and it makes the kerbals look so fucking cursed, they shouldn't be that realistic

New descriptions aren't generated, they are user submitted. Just like Sponsorblock's (same dev) data is comunity sourced, so is Dearrow.

Dearrow does have a few auto options for when no user data is submitted, such as decapitolising and removing emojis. The intent is remove the "loudness" of the clickbait. If there is a user submission it will show you that over the auto options.

There is also the auto the tumbnail generated that just picks a random frame. To be clear, a user submitted thumbnail is just a specified frame from the video, not something new uploaded. A person can select an appropriate "screenshot" from the video that convays the topic.

The more popular the channel is the more likely it will have a user submitted title and thumbnail. I see it most with educational stuff, where the creator is forced to play the algoritm but is a known, subjectivly, good creator. Other channels it's kinda of sparatic, it really depends if someone finds the content title/thumbnail clickbaity enough to warrent a new title and it's worth their time to actually watch the video to come up with an accruate title. Or the clickbait is so outrageous it pisses someone off enough they submit a new title out of spite to warn others.

An example could be,

Clickbait title; "YOU WON'T BEILVE WHAT HE DID🤬🤬🤬"
(Thumbnail image of "react face" with vauge pixelated crap in the background"

Dearrow Auto-settings; "You won't beilve what he did"
(Thumbnail of random frame from video, happened to be some b-roll of a grocery store that may or may not be relevant)

User submitted; "Bob reacts to Jack swimmig in beans after years of only climbing beanstalks"
(Thumbnail of specified frame where we see the youtuber Bob on screen when they are showing the video of Jack swimming in a pool of beans"

With the advent of A/B thumbnail testing, I'm seeing even more channels using an AI thumbnail for one of them.

Those channels are now getting the "don't recommend" treatment.