It's crazy to me that somewhere along the way we lost physical media as a reference point. Journals and YouTube can be good sources of information, but unless heavily confined to high quality information current AI is not able to judge citation quality to come up with good recommendations. The synthesis of real world medical experience is often collated in medical textbooks and yet AI doesn't cite them nearly as much as it should.

The assumption appears to be that the linked videos are less informative than "netdoktor" but that point is left unproven.

It’s slop all the way down. Garbage In Garbage Out.

I'm getting fucking sick of it. this bubble can go ahead and burst

Same energy as “lol you really used Wikipedia you dumba—“

How long will it be before somebody seeks to change AI answers by simply botting Youtube and/or Reddit?

Example: it is the official position of the Turkish government that the Armenian genocide [1] didn't happen.. It did. Yet for years they seemingly have spent resources to game Google rankings. Here's an article from 2015 [2]. I personally reported such government propaganda results in Google in 2024 and 2025.

Current LLMs really seem to come down to regurgitating Reddit, Wikipedia and, I guess for Germini, Youtube. How difficult would it be to create enough content to change an LLM's answers? I honestly don't know but I suspect for certain more niche topics this is going to be easier than people think.

And this is totally separate from the threat of the AI's owners deciding on what biases an AI should have. A notable example being Grok's sudden interest in promoting the myth of a "white genocide" in South AFrica [3].

Antivaxxer conspiracy theories have done well on Youtube (eg [4]). If Gemini weights heavily towards Youtube (as claimed) how do you defend against this sort of content resulting in bogus medical results and advice?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-google-searches-are-prom...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

[4]: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/where-conspira...

> Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

Whaaaa? No way /s

Like, do you people not understand the business model?

Conflict of interest.

I believe we need to do something. I see the big corporations slowly turn more and more of the world wide web into their private variant.

Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.