Google is rolling out its age assurance technology that uses AI in Canada.
Essentially, the technology uses machine learning to interpret “a variety of signals already associated with the users account, such as the types of information a user has searched for or the categories of videos they’ve watched on YouTube,” in order to determine a user’s age.
It wasn’t always this way, plenty of people made great youtube videos just for fun before there was any kind of “monetisation”. Sure, there weren’t the highly polished big budget videos (which would probably have been on tv back in the day), but there also wasn’t all the like-and-subscribe sponsored shit which makes the internet so unpleasant nowadays.
So yeah, I can’t disagree with this enough!
Those videos people did “for fun” also had massive exposure, because there was money coming in to pay for the servers to push those videos out.
Peertube offers neither much exposure, nor any money, so why? Why spend time making videos for a very few people who you will never meet?
I don’t like capitalism or monetization, but what you want is a logical impossibility without a funding stream, and I doubt there is one that isn’t problematic to some degree.
Places where independence can thrive are webpages and podcasts–both much cheaper to produce and distribute.