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Just so everyone knows, I have been hearing lots of honest critique and thoughtful perspectives on this. It has not been mostly bad-faith nonsense or "I SUPPORT YOU NO MATTER WHAT"s. Mostly what I'm hearing is, that I need to make things in a way that is honest to how I enjoy creating and that makes it easy for people to know that you're only ever hearing from me.
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3. No image or music in a video will be generated by AI. If something is accidentally included, best efforts will be made to remove it.
ADDED 7:30PM Mountain time August 7 after reading through comments:
4. LLM outputs will never be trusted as a source.
And this is more of a general policy but:
5. Informational / educational videos will contain links to primary sources in the description.
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