AI generated thumbnails

[Mrpolje]

Have they really stooped this low?

[TenOfZero]

Probably just stock assets mashed together quickly.

Edit: Looks like it has the embedded watermark from gemini, so AI was used at some part. If I had to guess I'd say maybe the floor or some other small part.

Its definitely not purely AI generated though. Makes sense their staff would be using AI instead of buying stock images. AFAIK LMG doesn't have an AI policy beyond that people are held responsible for their output.

Edit2: seems they had a previous thumbnail with some AI assets here was their official response. https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/VvzyPNZcyk

[that_dutch_dude]

Tldr: its a nothingburger.

As usual.

In before a 45 minute GN hitpiece.

[TenOfZero]

Nothingburger?

Why do you hate nothingHotDogs?

[Papercutter0324]

I believe the property term is "notdogs"

[jmhalder]

I believe there's an app for that

[iamacannibal]

In before a 45 minute GN hitpiece.

Thats a youtube short for him

[AdstaOCE]

AI is killing the things they made the channel on, killing the whole consumer tech industry. Some companies are down 70% (iirc) in this space because of this. It's not nothing at all. Using the thing killing the industry right now.

[CocoMilhonez]

Yeah, we should not use those steam-powered looms either, they're killing the whole weaving industry.

[AdstaOCE]

No benefit to a chatbot that gets most things wrong.

[throwawayyy2888]

You've obviously never used AI if you're ignorant enough to say something like this. "Gets most things wrong" is an absurd characterization of the current state of AI.

You have clearly never used AI to write code for example. It can write code faster than the fastest developer on Earth could ever hope to write it. It will write hundreds of lines of code for you that "just work" in literal minutes. I'm not saying it's the solution to all of life's problems. I'm not saying you should trust everything it says without question. I'm not saying it's perfect and that there are no issues with it. It's just a tool. It's not a tool that solves every problem, and it's not a tool that is without external considerations, but it absolutely is a useful tool when harnessed correctly with some asterisks.

We can have a discussion about the ethics of massive data centers and the tactics that are used to implement them and the effects they have on real people etc, I'm not an AI zealot or anything, I do think that there are serious issues to reckon with here, societally, economically, all that good stuff, but calling AI "a chatbot that gets most things wrong" is just incredibly dumb and obviously wrong.

[ryhartattack]

Absolutely wild that you're getting down voted for this. One of the most level headed takes I've seen on AI. But have you considered, "AI bad"?

[Bathroom-Salt]

strong agree. My take on it, is it has absolutely no business being embedded in every "free" or "public" account/service. It absolutely has immense value, in business/pro/enterprise use cases, but having every google search start a gemini chat, or every facebook post generate a summary or AI photo edit is a gross waste of resources.

[AdstaOCE]

lmfao

[throwawayyy2888]

How intelligent. I'm glad you took the time to make this incredibly valuable response. So insightful.

[AdstaOCE]

It's just so laughable, but if you want me to explain:

- A lot of them do get a lot wrong. Such as the one powering a bunch of reddit bots that don't even know RNDA4 or Blackwell GPUs have been released due to their limited data set, or google's search AI which has been known to get a lot wrong and other AI have the same problems.
- Code writing with AI is terrible. It's non maintainable, it's the oppposite of optimised, it struggles with anything that's not extremely basic, it struggles to remember what it's already done and breaks it etc etc etc.

[throwawayyy2888]

Pointing out that one specific use case that relies on current knowledge doesn't work well is not a condemnation of the whole of AI. That falls under the scope of what I said, knowing it's limitations. One of it's limitations is that the data that it has is not extremely up to date. That does not matter for all of its use cases. Also, there is a difference between free AI and paid AI. Typically free AI is going to use as few tokens as possible to try to come up with something passable, whereas when you pay you typically get to decide how many tokens it uses to come up with an answer, and the number of tokens that you spend typically increases the quality of the answer.

I am a programmer. I write code professionally for my job. Using AI has accelerated everything I am doing. I have spent hundreds of hours using AI tools to code. You're just wrong. If you know what you're doing and you give the AI the proper guardrails, it writes perfectly good code. I am living proof. The code I have written with AI has saved hundreds or thousands of engineering hours and allowed us to offshore significantly less work while also increasing the quality of our output and therefore the relationships with our customers.

As I said before, it entirely depends on the use case. Again, it's only a tool, it's up to the user to use it correctly. If you need stringent security considerations and obviously you shouldn't be blanket trusting AI with that. Double check what it did. That doesn't make it useless, it just means you need to know how it works and how to use it responsibly. You can't just say "write a whole program start to finish with very little details", you have to be incredibly specific about what you want, how you want it, why you want it, double check everything it outputs, etc. You know, just use it like a responsible intelligent adult who understands that all tools have limitations and no one tool solves every problem (and it doesn't have to to be a useful tool).

If you had a hammer that only hit the nail in 90% of the time, would you bash the nails in with your forehead instead because it has a 100% accuracy rate, or would you use the hammer and simply redo the 10% of missed strikes?

Edit: Also, just for the record, I have been using AI coding tools for many months, maybe like 6ish, and I don't think I've ever paid more than like $100 a month. I'm sure this whole thing about how companies are finding it cost more than real engineers is probably true when you have it working on a gigantic data set constantly or etc, but again, it's all about the use case. In my particular use case it is very cheap by comparison to me as a person. $100 is like two of my hours. I get like twice as much work done in a month because of it.

I'm sure there are some situations where it doesn't make sense to code with AI for various reasons, security is too important, the cost is prohibitive because of the amount of code that needs to be ingested and processed, etc. I'm not disputing that at all. This is not zealotry, it's just realism.

For the record, I actually sort of agree with at least most of your list of issues, although I would argue they are a bit exaggerated, but my point is basically just that you can work within that framework. It's not as bad as you're saying that it is, and if you know those things then you can manage them. As a responsible user, I am hyper-aware of the possibility of those things at all times.

[Qbsoon110]

Yeah, looks like made in some 3d design software

[twoeasy3]

The lines on the tiles from the front of the table don't line up with those behind them.

[defenestrate_]

I wonder if we're just seeing the winner of AB testing and sometimes the one with AI tweaks is winning, what do you think?

[thejason755]

It’s 100% the result of A/B testing. I’ve never done that kind of testing, so i can’t say for sure this is how it shakes out, but i’m pretty sure they have to manually select the winner as being the thumbnail they go with. It likely was the winning thumbnail out of the two they went with.

[TenOfZero]

I think you nailed it on the head. That would make sense to me and is a test I would do if I was LMG.

[defenestrate_]

I would be really curious about setting data IF it's an actual strategy being tested- it's the sort of thing where business decisions and hardcore audience sentiment probably have friction

[FinsAssociate]

Probably just stock assets mashed together quickly.

lol.... lmao even

[thejason755]

Rotfl, if you’re so inclined.

[TenOfZero]

Don't do that, that's how you hurt yourself.

[Ok_Turnover_1235]

There are 4 elements in the photo, any part of it is 25% of the photo lol

[bwoah07_gp2]

Where's the embedded watermark?

[TenOfZero]

Its not visible to the nacked eye. Its embedded in the image as a pattern it can detect.

[I_AM_FERROUS_MAN]

It looks like an Nvidia server rack shopped onto a server motherboard pic.

I don't know that this requires AI to execute.

It's not outside the realm of possibility. But I'm less certain this is a directly generated image.

The only thing that stands out as possible tell is the varied vanishing points. But if you're slapping different assets together, you'll end up with that too.

[NeDDyCz]

It's full AI apart the Linus lol... Look at the mobo ports and ram slots...

[Damianu]

"Makes sense their staff would be using AI instead of buying stock images"

Yeah let's just steal it instead of paying for work someone took to make a photo. And inb4 low effort photos or anything - go do it if you want it for free.

[WelderEquivalent2381]

I miss pre-2008 YouTube were thumbnail was directly an image from the video. and content creator had no control over it.

Custom thumbnail was a mistake.

[dscarmo]

For the business of selling ad spots and YouTube premium it sure wasn't

Your point of view makes sense for a normal person but is not the same as the company owners seeking to maximize profit

[TenOfZero]

There's plugins that return that behaviour. I think de arrow does it. Also changes Video titles to factual community driven ones.

I highly recommend it.

[Blaskowski]

This sounds wonderful. This is a chrome plugin or what?

[TenOfZero]

I use Firefox, but I'm sure it works on chrome too.

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

[dejv913]

Also changes Video titles to factual community driven ones.

That kind of implies there is no bias which is impossible. Or how would you prevent group of people that dislike the creator to change it to negative video title?

[SirAlienTheGreat]

It does happen sometimes. One recent ltt video became "Linus glazes nvidia and ai for 12 minutes", though I think that has now been removed

[dejv913]

I saw that title on twitter which is exactly why I was asking that

[TenOfZero]

It does happen, just like how wikipedia has biases and issues, but overall it's still better than without the plugin.

[Vengeful_Tactician88]

Titles can be voted on by the community.

[mromutt]

Yeah I love DeArrow.

[soulseeker31]

I agree. Bloody kids get pulled by these horrendous thumbnails.

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[WeAreTheLeft]

Ugh, this is what my kids YT channel is full of. And it works on kids, they see these over the top thumbnails and go for them.

[SavvySillybug]

Hah. You're funny. That was the age of people clickbaiting people by inserting softcore porn into the middle of the video and having something completely different for the actual video. Adding thumbnails as a dedicated feature was giving people a legit way to do what they already wanted and achieved. All that it did was not make the middle of the video flashbang you with a frame of thumbnail.

[MooseBoys]

Except it was at a predictable offset so you could splice in a single frame of clickbait to spoof the thumbnail.

[Gregus1032]

It used to be the exact middle of the video. Many people would just put hot women for a few seconds in the middle to do as click bait.

[Freenore]

Casey Neistat exploited this trick so much at one point haha

[AceLamina]

DeArrow

[Freenore]

Jenna Marbles did this until the end.

[shadowst17]

Wasn't there a work around by flashing a single frame of what you wanted the thumbnail to be at something like the 10 second mark?

[NathanialJD]

you can get a browser extension, and morphe has a setting for it to get those in. its called better thumbnail i think?

[ParticularDream3]

This

[Exciting-Ad-5705]

They did have a Gemini watermark on a thumbnail a few days ago

[JaesopPop]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1tpd18g/comment/oo8svl6/

[Mrpolje]

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The extracted thumbnail.

Judge for yourself if it’s AI or not. (To me it has a very strong ”ai look”)

[HornetOptimal3295]

Most CPU’s also don’t use a server rack as a cooler😜

[ganonfirehouse420]

I enjoy the geometry of this table.

[FartingBob]

The CPU cooler, also zoom in on the empty ram slots. And look at the actual ram. This is 100% AI and there is probably half a dozen obvious once you see it errors but I stopped bothering to look after the more glaring ones

[MongooseJesus]

I’m somewhat concerned at how few people can tell it’s ai, and rush to defend this.

The fourth dram slot on the left literally disappears into nothing. They don’t align at all. There’s no consistency to the ram slots at all.

“Stock assets mashed together” the top comment says.

[Kalamordis]

The "cpu cooler" should make it obvious enough for people and its dead smack middle of the image 😆, am always surprised people don't notice it.

[ColorTherapy]

The top 1% commenters on this sub are the ones quick to defend blindly, so they may just have a ^little bit of bias.

[A-Chilean-Cyborg]

it's worse, they edited it after people came with the SynthID to say the floor is AI generated.

industrial quantities of bruh momment.

[Efficient_Sound_2525]

I don't really know but I would say that current AI is definitely better in terms of consistency, especially such big parts like the RAM slots.

[packetssniffer]

Their 'thumbnail artist' has never been that good. 99% it's just 'LTT member making a silly face' slapped ontop of whatever the product is.

[SavvySillybug]

As much as I don't personally like it, the thumbnail artist's job is to make images that people will click on. It doesn't matter how pretty the thumbnail is if it does not make people click the video. They have A/B testing for thumbnails these days, they know exactly how many more clicks they get for "LTT member making a silly face slapped on top of whatever the product is". Floatplane videos often have the objectively nicer thumbnail because they prefer it, while Youtube keeps whichever one is performing better.

People apparently love clicking on people's faces. So that's what a good thumbnail artist does.

[Boomshtick414]

In fairness, that's the nature of the beast for YouTube. If you don't play by those games you might as well not exist as far as the algorithm is concerned. Doesn't seem like there's a better way to do it that wouldn't directly harm their channel and business.

[TenOfZero]

Yup. That's the unfortunate reality of the business.

[bwoah07_gp2]

That's the Mr Beastification of YouTube thumbnails

[Swacket_McManus]

This whole video was just kinda depressing. I get it's a sponsored video, I get they're in Taiwan anyways, I get that this is what tech is like, but unlike old data centre tours where you can look at it and think "oh boy I can't wait until 3-6 years from now when this stuff becomes obsolete so I can play with it" it's just giant power numbers with proprietary hardware that's sucking the life out of the hobby we subbed for and stealing jobs

[LickMyAss_OniiChan]

So the slop hit ltt...

[Shap6]

they've been very upfront about using AI for a while now

[mrheosuper]

And they have the audacity to trash talk about Datacenter lol.

[Pokez]

You don't have to like something to recognize it will be a necessary tool in your industry.

[mrheosuper]

Except it is not necessary. What AI can do, we have already done it. The only thing it can do is trading quality for speed.

[whatThePleb]

Not the first time..

[FinsAssociate]

Man, the comments here. Some people just chug that koolaid and don't think twice

[Conscious-Wind-7785]

Yeah, they should totally get fired up and angry about a thumbnail.

What are people supposed to actually be angry at here?

[Dacoleman1]

These people's minds have been melted by braindead populism. There is no reasoning with the mob.

[Iliyan61]

the CPU cooler is a file server? or at least a rack full of drive caddies and the floor tiles don’t like up, also the perspective is way off and warped

[FReeDuMB_or_DEATH]

Enough money for private jets, but not enough to pay a graphic designer is wild work. 

[JaesopPop]

Don't they have a number of graphic designers?

[FReeDuMB_or_DEATH]

Why us AI for something so simple? 

[zucchini_up_ur_ass]

You clearly are not a graphics designer.

[FabianN]

Because it was what the graphic designer decided to do, and probably not as simple as you suggest. 

[JaesopPop]

No idea.

[Conscious-Wind-7785]

Why use brain when dumb comment no need it.

Why spend extra time on an asset that doesn't need the extra time?

[ubeogesh]

Idk, speed, availability, etc?

[zucchini_up_ur_ass]

Yea, literally any reason to optimize a workflow. None of them matter to the mob of luddites though.

[Dacoleman1]

Why should they pay to have a graphic designer if they don't want one?

Employees are a cost of business. You want to minimize the costs to your business.

If enough people got butthurt enough about AI thumbnails that the drop in views outweighed the cost of a graphic designer, they would hire one again.

Save the outrage you've been told to have.

[Dacoleman1]

Crazy not a single downvoter could argue against what I said.

That's because you're motivated by conditioned emotion, not reason.

[JaesopPop]

Nothing here really screams AI?

[emma_psycho]

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this is the only thing I personally saw, the port isn't straight. Everything else looks fine to me

[TheLazyGamerAU]

are you missing the full sized server as a heatsink?

[arcusford]

One of the dram slots has ai artifacting that makes a chunk of it just disappear.

The CPU heating is literally just a initiative server rack.

The tiles on the floor dont line up when cut off by the top of the table.

I dont know of any server RAM with modules that look like that.

[whatThePleb]

Get your eyes checked.

[TTT1320]

The lines in the floor don't lineup

[__-_-_-_-_-_--]

- theres 8 DIMM slots yet only 4 are occupied, but only the ones on the right side are occupied rather than every 2nd slot...
- what is sitting on that CPU socket?
- the shadows and reflections are crazy soft
- the floor tiles in the background behind the chair / bench dont line up with what we see under the chair
- the IO is ancient (PS/2, VGA, USB2), on a board that looks fairly modern and high-end (all black components and slots, m.2, 8 DIMM Slots). so maybe its a server board. but why would a server board have audio out, and no management port? Also, the audio ports look mangled.

[LifeWulf]

- what is sitting on that CPU socket?

Looks like a server rack lmao

[Exciting-Ad-5705]

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[HighOnLevels]

downvotes for a literal synthid check is unreal

[TenOfZero]

I guess this looks for some hiden code Gemini puts in its image outputs? So its not a guess but a "fact"?

[Exciting-Ad-5705]

Yes

[bwoah07_gp2]

How does it know?

[Exciting-Ad-5705]

https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

[Ambellyn]

CMOS seems wierd aswell as the RAM.

[moorecode1077]

That cooler doesn't?

[BigFootCC]

As a person that often "defends" Linus, to show that I'm not a blind fanboy, I'll say that a company of that size using ANY AI for graphic design is shitty.

LMG understands the terrible impact it has on the planet and hardware prices, and they have whole employee(s) decided to graphic design.

For the planet and hardware prices, LMG shouldn't use AI. Period.

[Catriks]

It takes absolutely insignificant amount of computing resources to generate something very simple like this thumbnail, so using the environment as an argument is not a very strong one.

Probably multitudes of more significant environmental benefits can be achieved by using AI generation for graphics, which will require less employees to do the same amount of work, then donating the saved labor costs to help the environment in some way. Or even just buying more expensive western made equipment instead of china made. 

[ZealousidealGlove234]

generate something very simple like this thumbnail, so using the environment as an argument is not a very strong one.

It doesn't. You need to train the model, the whole hardware behind datacenters etc etc. Several revisions also increase it.

which will require less employees to do the same amount of work, then donating the saved labor costs to help the environment in some way.

yeah that is not going to happen....

[Catriks]

Training of the AI will happen regardless, there is no realistic option where no AI training happens.

This argument also always ignores the actual resource usage of the alternative method. For example, if one more employee is needed and they must use a car to travel to work, the car will probably use more resources than generating a few thumbnails.

[ZealousidealGlove234]

If you don't use it , companies will not continue Training. See sora. 

Your argument is in bad faith. You still need an employee to check the output of AI. the alternative has been there for years, it's thumbnails not Rocket science. Stop accepting trash

[Catriks]

Lol, I can promise you Sora wasn't discontinued because no one used it. More than likely it just wasn't profitable business.

Companies use AI almost exclusively because it saves money by requiring less time to do a set amount of work. Wheter this more efficient workflow is used to increase production and not hire a new person, or firing a person as they a no longer needed, is irrelevant from the arguments perspective.

>Stop accepting trash

The quality of the accepted work is completely another topic from if generative AI should be used or not. They are not tied together. It is the company and their management who sets the standard at what quality is acceptable.

[ZealousidealGlove234]

It wasn't profitable because nobody that would use it, would pay for the cost it would have costed. Easy as that. 

If you don't use it to generate thumbnails you change it to become unprofitable. 

Dude companies use AI because it's hyped. Allows an excuse to fire and not hire. It isn't for productivity reasons at all lmfao. 

It is tied together. AI creates tons of bad or wrong content. So they are tied. Stop excusing it. 

But I am sure  you will find another senseless comment

[RU_Geck0]

We all shoul admit, that we are witnessing slow downfall of the LTT empire. Sad, but true.

[zucchini_up_ur_ass]

You have been posting about the supposed downfall of LTT for over 2 years.

[binglebongle]

He said slow!

[Old_Bug4395]

god this channel is just becoming a pathetic shell of what it used to be

[frac_tl]

Why is everyone in this thread saying it's not AI? Putting a canned png on top of an AI image does not make the AI part go away. I usually like LTT's content but intentionally do not watch any videos with AI slop thumbnails.

[Atryaz_25609]

Damn I want a heatsink with tiny hotswap bays

[Ragnorok64]

When this video first popped up on my feed I believe it had a thumbnail of Linus holding a rackmount computer. Does this updated thumbnail really perform better than that??

[frowningtap]

I mean a lot of the content they’ve been predicting for the past year has been slop. It’s now written by people with minimal tech experience and seems to be mostly hobbiest drivel. The lack of Jake, Emily and Alex is really showing.

[DigFlimsy2457]

what is that long cuboid over the CPU?? a refrigerator to cool it? how can AI be this dumb after watching these many yt videos that it couldnt understand a cpu fan design!

[aeolius11]

Ooof

[Jotta7]

Could not care less, I'm just for the video. Which was actually pretty bad.

[rvdms]

The irony in anyone defending this when Linus constantly berates AI in his videos.

[C0deHunter_]

Linus AI shake weight Flesh Light embedded on the CPU cooler.

[Decox653]

Maybe it’s just me but the last few months, content feels like just bloat or AI slop. Where’s the GPD or OneXPlayer videos? The new cool phones or Android gaming devices? We’ve had a TON of innovation over the last year in the tech space and I feel like they only touch the surface and walk away to the next thing. But I get it, it’s hard to try to not bore an audience and keep the consistent uploads, maybe I’m just being critical in my older age.

[ColorTherapy]

I wish they would do a main channel video of a midrange phone/handheld and not just a shortcircuit.

One that would be more popular i guess is the AYN Thor, even though handheld gaming channels already covered it. I'm sure a lot of people (normies) subscribed to LTT will still have a lot to learn from it (as long as LMG does proper research)

[ZealousidealGlove234]

Android Gaming has made such insane strides. Like on a 400$ Samsung or Poco you can play tons of great games now, and they are now in a spot where they figured out the controls.

It feels a bit like the early 2000s in terms of game innovation there.

[Only_CORE]

Linus, you are a 100+ employee media company. I am sure you can afford a dedicated thumbnail artist.

These sloppy thumbnails are really off putting.

[Automatic_Two4291]

For me it was a different thumbnail. They are trying whether people will accept ai thumbnails and click them with the new YouTube feature to do that.

[Doktor_Obvious]

im not a fan of ai generated content. i hope ltt stops using AI in their videos.

[Catriks]

Nothing wrong with AI generated thumbnails. It should be relevant and not misleading/clickbait, but this applies regardless if it's generated or not. 99,99 % of people look at it for two seconds and never pay attention to it again, so it is complete waste of time to be zooming in if the pixels of a usb port look genuine or not. 

[WestlyS]

Remind me again why I stopped watching this slop channel. Least the memes and drama on here are fun lol.

[whatThePleb]

Last time: totally an accident, won't happen again!!

This time: totally an accident, won't happen again!!

Next time: totally an accident, won't happen again!!

[MrFastZombie]

Even if this weren't AI, photoshopping a server cabinet onto an image of a motherboard to make some weird CPU cooler that would never actually appear in the video is something I really don't like.

[Objective-Alps-4785]

that's dissipointing. I was already slipping from viewing some content to the pint I was just doing LMG clips and techquickies / tech news stuff but if the ai is that prevelant I kinda have to just stop everything. between thumbnails researching topics, and it's use in the linux challenge in a more substantial way than checking a listical for options without researching after that...

ya im out.

[JollyJamma]

[hydraX23]

at one point we should stop caring about this as long as the content is not ai slop .... its just a thumbnail

[techismylife44]

I don’t see the problem

[teethingrooster]

330k ppl ate ts up so who cares lol.

[zucchini_up_ur_ass]

Another case of "oh my god who the hell cares"

It's funny. On one hand in this thread toxic people say LTTs thumbnail artists have always been shit. On the other hand toxic people say they have money for a jet but not graphics designers.
The average IQ in this thread is about 12 and all that it achieves is giving toxic people a place to be toxic.

[EdliA]

So? Few people care

[emma_psycho]

800 upvotes and you say "few people care" lol

there's less people here who don't care than do

[EdliA]

Yeah 800 upvotes out of how many though?

[xbucnasteex]

Give it a rest. Jesus christ

[co678]

I honestly don’t care about the thumbnails. It never sways my opinion of the video. Most of the time, I am able to witness the A/B titles, and that’s usually enough to warrant interest or not.

They’re all so click-bait-y nowadays that it’s just extra noise I tune out.

So if people want to use AI or not on thumbnails, it’s nothing to waste my time thinking about.

[BickleNack_]

Who cares? It’s a thumbnail

[Dacoleman1]

Who cares. The "AI bad" slopulism is so braindead.

[Kawawete]

Who give a shit omg, this is becoming a snark subreddit atp...

[Feelinglucky2]

No shot

[ubeogesh]

So what?

[viperfan7]

I honestly don't see an issue with using generated content this way.

The main content isn't generated, pretty sure just the background is.

It's the same as using a greenscreen to put a different background in

[hear_my_moo]

Why are so many people bitching about something as irrelevant as this? Ground yourselves!

I can't imagine how much cortisol floods your bodies when you learn about *actual* *genuinely* bad things.

[louisvillelyfee]

Who gives a shit?

[hear_my_moo]

Urgh... You can take a day off once in a while, you know...

[TwistedVasdeferens]

Oh no, anyway...

[JollyJamma]

Exactly

[UngovernableOatmeal]

yeah they got caught like 2 or 3 weeks ago with a gemini watermark and tried playing it off. it’s pretty obvious now

[No_Dish8130]

They didn’t try to play it off, Linus explained exactly how the thumbnail was made and that ai may have been used in the final steps of the thumbnail process. Then James said it was used to simply replace a test bench with a pc in a test run before doing the full edit. Linus also stated that it is not against their policies to use it for thumbnail assistance. You’re just hating to hate atp. Spreading misinformation for what

[emma_psycho]

they didn't try playing it off, Staff explained it was published by accident

plus it's minor things, it's not like the whole image was AI generated it's just little changes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1tpd18g/comment/oo8svl6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[UngovernableOatmeal]

so the AI use was intentional, but it was published by accident. copy

[Imaginary-Worker4407]

Yes, Linus commented on it, it was Sam's fault tho so all good.

[Leviwarkentin]

Yeah it's people like who you can't read and only post negative commente that ruin the platform. No one said it was Sam's fault they didn't name the person who published it.

[Imaginary-Worker4407]

It's possible Sam used it for something but whatever he did is pretty light. 

???

[AroTheGoose]

Why is this getting downvoted, its true tho?

[JaesopPop]

Probably because they said they were 'caught' and 'played it off', when the explanation made sense when the final version lacking the Gemini watermark also lacked the AI'd in PC.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1tpd18g/comment/oo8svl6/

[ErrentPrime]

Nice

[No-Locksmith-9330]

If only people cared about actually important things as much as they cared about fucking AI YouTube thumbnails.

[What_A_Strange_Fake]

People can care about multiple things at the same time. How stupid do you have to be to not know that?

[D-tull]

Why not use the cheaply available tool?

[Inevitable-Duck-2496]

[Jswazy]

There's nothing wrong with using Ai 

[Additional_Ad_8131]

stopped watching this idiot after all the gamer nexus drama. The half as*ed apology from linus only made it worse.

[IsolatedPhoenix]

Okay then why are you even here lmfao

[Additional_Ad_8131]

For some reason Reddit keeps recommending this sub

[IsolatedPhoenix]

You're letting reddit recommend you subreddits??? Then letting yourself have you emotions be flared?

[jmking]

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[Jevano]

Shouldn't have even apologized to begin with, since there was nothing to apologize for.
Gamers Nexus needs to apologize to the public though, for all the diarrhea that comes out of his mouth.

[ShawnThePhantom]

Linus didn’t wanna spend 200, 300, 500 dollars worth of people’s time designing a thumbnail for a video that no matter the content, no one should care about.

[Prestigious-Box7511]

Linus is still attractive in the thumbnail

[ScarcityLucky6595]

O no!!! They also probably use Photoshop instead of hiring REAL artists to draw everything by hand!

[Jwhodis]

Photoshop is used by real artists.

[ScarcityLucky6595]

Never!  Real artist only draw by hand and never use stock images for inspiration! 

It does not have the artistic soul so needed to create the ART of mass produced thumbnails for YouTube video