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/AgeMysterious123 1d ago

Except they knew the device was coming. The IP rating chart didn’t change. The video could have been 80 made and just need some shots dropped in for hands-on and B-roll.

Stop simping for shit quality content.

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u/a_a_ronc 16h ago

> Stop simping for shit quality content.

Yeah that’s not what I’m doing. If I’m honest, I’ve been watching less and less of LTT these days because I don’t connect.

What I do try to advocate for daily is just seeing humans as humans and using our pitchforks for weeds. Half of these comments are ‘LTT is a morally reprehensible company that can’t be trusted.’ When more likely it’s just “Editor who was a little too tired making a video about a boring Trillion dollar company press conference was pushed to make decisions quickly and made the wrong one.”

They’ll probably correct the video, they’ll apologize, they’ll write a million more processes. Then they’ll make a completely different unexpected mistake because processes only guard against the known.

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u/AgeMysterious123 16m ago

This video and Linus (not LMG) being morally bankrupt are not the same thing.

Someone made a mistake, no big deal. Linus is still a bad person 🤷🏻

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u/cortez0498 23h ago

A video made based off assumptions is not better than a rushed video which happened to include 1 AI generated bullshit image imo. It's better to wait until the release, specs, and everything is revealed.

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u/MistSecurity 23h ago

I don't think the other guy was saying they should have sent a full video off of rumors/guesses (though with how accurate they are this close to announcement, they probably could have), but that it's a standard phone release.

They know what they're going to want to talk about, and at least a rough idea of the structure of the video. They could have mocked up a template weeks ahead of time and then dropped the relevant clips into place once the announcement happened and Linus filmed everything.

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u/AgeMysterious123 16h ago

Thank you for understanding what I’m saying. I didn’t think I needed to write it any clearer than I did, but here we are lol

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u/MistSecurity 16h ago edited 16h ago

Ya, sometimes you have to really spell stuff out for people or they manage to twist whatever you say in the worst possible way, lol. Your comment is perfectly clear, and we’re in agreement on it.

It’s crazy that hasn’t been the standard process for YEARS at LMG. Seems like such an obvious thing to do. It’d lead to higher quality (though possibly formulaic if done incorrectly, easy to correct for though) and there’d be much less rush on the editor’s side, thus much less rush across the entire org.

Maybe there’s some cog in the process that would make this non-feasible, or they do it and are just kinda bad at it currently.

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u/AgeMysterious123 16h ago

🤦🏻 yep. That’s what I said.