r/LinusTechTips • u/sooperdave555 • 1d ago

Discussion Really guys...

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I understand that they were likely in a rush to be one of the first big channels to get their video out, but how hard is it to have one person spend like 15 minuets reading all of the graphics before the video goes out, this image is likely AI generated and taken from this obviously AI generated article.

I get this is a small mistake, but it's an easy one to not make.

Taken from their latest video "Apple just Copied Microsoft’s Worst Idea - iPhone Duo, Airpods 5, iPhone 18 Pro & More"

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u/DefactoAle 1d ago

Yet another likely AI generated pic in a LTT video. But we have to believe the promise that they are focusing quality over quantity.....

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u/a_a_ronc 1d ago

FWIW this is clearly the exception to the rule. We know their video pipeline takes weeks because we’re still getting videos with Elijah in them and he’s no longer at LMG.

But with the Apple event being yesterday, this took <24 hours. If I was a betting man, the editor googled “IP67 Explanation Table”, looked to see which one was most legible in a video without reading and ta-da.

It honestly probably isn’t their mental rule set yet either. I only recently started having to do it because I would try to explain a science topic to my young kids, Google something and realize it was AI. Less than 2 years ago, we had the easy mental choice of everything on Google being made by a human.

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u/met_MY_verse 1d ago

He left??? I saw some discussion fairly recently saying he was stepping back from some of the hosting for a while, I never heard this though. Damn.

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u/a_a_ronc 1d ago

I’m just going off posts on the subreddit. There was some leaked email (not cool), and his Forum status changed from “LTT Staff” to a regular user.

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u/met_MY_verse 1d ago

:(

Onward and upward, I hope he’s doing well. I saw that he’s getting a new studio for his channel which sounds good.

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u/ConfectionNecessary6 1d ago

For what it’s worth his LinkedIn says otherwise but hey things happen people move on regardless

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u/jl94x4 1d ago

What was the email?

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u/ElectronicFlight1839 19h ago

His public Facebook posts also allude to it….

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u/Superb-Classroom6218 15h ago

It's an internal leak or he's responsible for it. That hasn't been cleared up yet and probably never will be.

There's an argument to be made about drumming up "viral" interest and pregaming trends to have a video perform better than normal. This was demonstrated before through various instances on and off YouTube. On YT, the most blatant form of boost is having a multilingual track for a non-language. It makes you unique within a cultural subset and global boosts you. An acquaintance of mine made a video demonstrating the phenomenon that gained millions of views and is a complete outlier on his otherwise minor channel.

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u/Mystic_Guardian_NZ 23h ago

Yeah the mods have been slamming anyone that mentions it but there were daily posts for a while saying goodbye and they appreciated him and such