Clickbait repost of Andrew Ng lecture hits 318K views in a month vs 450K for the original
adariostrange · x · 2026-10-11
A repost of Andrew Ng's 2025 Stanford AI lecture titled 'prompting is dead in six months' amassed 318K views in one month, nearly matching the original's 450K. The poster highlights both the copyright violation and the power of alarmist titles in YouTube's algorithm, and raises the question of AI agents gaming YouTube in this way.
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