I’m not super well versed, but my understanding was that watching the preview for more than X seconds already counted as a view. At least it was like that a while back after they were introduced.
Also be careful because these ai channels are sneaky and will use generic pictures or stills but the script and voice are all AI.
I mostly watch videos from channels I’m already subscribed to, but recently a few shows I watch have dropped new seasons and I was looking for recaps on YouTube. It was nothing but AI slop channel after AI slop channel. I would click off as fast as possible to not give them the view, but I guess they will all count going forward. It really sucks because we can’t opt out of these channels and many of them don’t even admit to being AI anyway.
I have no idea how this change is good for them. I totally agree that it seems like it’ll encourage low quality content. After a few of those videos I can’t imagine most people sticking around for another, but what do I know. I’m sure they have more accurate stats than I do.
They do not. Even gadget savvy normies generally don’t. Sometimes people who mod their games will know it from having to download things from there, but they still might not know it by name since they’re just following directions and not paying much attention to the actual information.
No hate to tech normies. We can’t all know everything. Just sharing my experience with it.
Plenty of people do exactly that and just never make it so you don’t get a chance to see how often that fails. No issue enjoying a success story built off hard work and determination, but a lot of the time luck is involved in ways we can’t control.
People give money to streamers. There’s plenty of data to mine there regarding what the streamer was doing or saying vs how many donations they were getting. You can correlate that across different kinds of streams or streamers and get a good idea of how to maximize extraction from a given population.