Checkout the Youtube-shorts-block extension which gives shorts the same UI as normal youtube videos.

Basically what the extension does is replace the parts in the URL youtube.com/shorts/“video-id” to youtube.com/watch?v=“video-id”

This was the aim of Sapphire Project. It started way before this AI and large ML models became trending.But still not in a usable condition as i’m aware of.

Another related project is Dicio. App is still in its early stages, but usable for basic tasks.