I love long-form videos that tell information and stories. Documentaries about most any topics, especially ones that last an hour or more, are my bread and butter. But when I’m using YouTube on my TV, I can’t tell from thumbnails what the quality of a channel is. Sometimes I find gold, but other times it’s obvious they’re using an AI voice over or AI imagery and I immediately turn it off. I’m so tired of trudging through the slop, even though it’s just beginning.
So for now, I figure I’ll check with y’all - do you have any preferred/recommended channels that make the sort of video I’m looking for, that are still human-made? I’d love to hear about them.
pbs eons, there are bunch of channels related to this one, some people on reporting on paleontology/new discoveries, or bio, i like how some people in the comments try to accuse the channels of AI without actual evidence. almost all the influencers AI for thier thumbnails, which i find cringey.
i would be careful watch pbs terra though, because there seems to be some sort of misinformation(like the alleged experts are speaking from an misinformed point of view), like how they are trying to save american chestnut species being devestated by blight, but doesnt go into detail(omit) why they are using the chinese hybrid to prevent disease, which makes it not a natural species since it was the chinese one that spread the disease in the first place, same goes with the devil holes pupfish(claims they are saving the species but doesnt really say why its being hybridizing with another species). there is just something off about that channel that doesnt have with the other pbs channels.