Child’s AI-Generated Russian Videos Ruining YouTube Recommendations For Father’s AI-Generated Russian Videos
ALEXANDRIA, VA—Noting with frustration that the 4-year-old’s viewing habits had likely destroyed his YouTube account forever, local man James Ratliff told reporters Monday that the AI-generated Russian videos his son had been watching were ruining his own recommendations for AI-generated Russian videos. “Goddamn it, what is this shit?” said the 47-year-old father, who despite years of training his algorithm to suggest a steady stream of glitchy, propaganda-filled videos from accounts with names like “Patriot Eagle 1776” now had to click around dozens of poorly rendered cartoons that his child had watched and that were made by the same malicious foreign agents. “Seriously, who does YouTube think I am? I’m a grown man who wants to watch exposés of the deep state [created by the Kremlin to spread disinformation and destabilize the U.S. government]. I’m not some child who wants to watch a bunch of deformed-looking singing bears [created by the Kremlin to spread disinformation and destabilize the U.S. government].” At press time, Ratliff confirmed he’d created a separate account for his son so they could mindlessly fall down their respective rabbit holes and be brainwashed separately.