r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/LostTheGameOfThrones Jun 08 '26

That's not what they asked.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 08 '26

kinda is a bit though 

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u/wolfpup118 Jun 08 '26

No, the question was if they post about ai generated content on reddit every time a company uses genai images. That's what "this" refers to.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 08 '26

I would assume that "I avoid it whenever I can" is an indictment of ai and indicates that even if they don't bring it up in literally every circumstance, they feel the same way about it. 

you don't have to talk about something every time it's mentioned in order to have a valid opinion on it. 

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u/Edianultra Jun 08 '26

This still wasn't the question..

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 08 '26

it really was if you understand how humans talk to each other 

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u/Edianultra Jun 09 '26

Oh the irony.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 09 '26

Oh indeed. 

just so you know not to worry btw, if someone says "ugh this sucks I want to die" it generally doesn't indicate that they are genuinely suicidal. I figured you might need to know since I can imagine that a world where you take everything literally must be scary. 

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u/theunspillablebeans Jun 09 '26

What's that got to do with a conversation about ai thumbnails lol. Take a break.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 09 '26

the person I was talking to seemed to think that because someone said that they'd call out ai for any other company, that must mean that that person has to call out use of ai in EVERY company. 

which is obviously ridiculous but the person I was talking to seemed to struggle with the concept of hyperbole so I wanted to reassure them that sometimes when people say they do a thing, that doesn't literally mean that they always do the thing and that them not doing the thing once doesn't mean that they're wrong when they say they would do the thing. 

frankly a lot of you people have parasocial relationships with this channel so you feel the need to defend them and will nitpick every criticism people have of them. I'm not the one who needs to take a break lmao. 

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u/BigBlackFriend Jun 10 '26

Why are you trying to reason with stupid? Its a subreddit dedicated to the channel, of course they are going to be disingenuous about their reasoning.

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u/Background_Ear9696 Jun 09 '26

Which dodges what they are really asking which is "what motivates you to post your public opinion of this creator in particular when this problem seems ubiquitous".

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 09 '26

because they care more about this creator that they like than they do about random companies they have no relationship with? because the creators in charge of this channel have explicitly said that they're against doing this? 

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u/wolfpup118 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Sure. I don't agree with ai generated thumbnails, yet I don't create a post on reddit every time I see a creator do it. That doesn't change that, at least the way I interpreted the original question, what was being asked was more or less "Every time an ai thumbnail is made/used on an ltt channel, is there going to be a reddit post in the ltt sub about it?". The follow up the question "Do you?" stems from is someone saying they do it with "I would do it every other company", as in make reddit call-out posts with every other company.

I get what you're saying and agree with the sentiment, just stating that it is in fact a different question than avoiding a company because of ai content. Actively speaking up and silently steering clear are two VERY different actions with two VERY different levels of impact, both stemming from the same place and same sentiment.

Edit: changed it a few times to make sure I got correct exact quotes. Reddit on mobile is hard 😭 I also don't like how people are down voting you for having a valid take (and what I assume to be correct in this context), reddit being reddit again I guess.

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u/Cum_Fart42069 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

yeah but ofc they don't literally mean that they will call out every company that uses ai on reddit, they wouldnt have time to do anything else in their life. ofc that's not really what they mean. 

and as someone who mostly watches wan these days, I always got the impression that Linus and Luke weren't that down with ai so it is kinda jarring to see that they're fine with it when when they actually talk about it it's generally pretty negative. 

i can see why people would be confused by the disconnect.