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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by tredre3 »

luckylion wrote: post #32
floxy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose it all depends on the false positive and false negative rates. But better to start now, before AI ruins the platform. https://web.archive.org/web/20090418141450/http://www.theatl...

_before_? youtube is like the top 1000 creators / influencers / celebrities, 5% actual videos, and the rest is slop of various types for me. The search is entirely gone and will straight up not list regular content that was made by humans, but it will absolutely surface the cheap AI-voices that can't say HVAC fluently. Makes sense for youtube, too. For the average person, that seems to be enough, the ads are the same…

If you only visit youtube.com logged out in a private window, obviously it's going to show you what's the most popular. What else should it be doing?

Personally I never see those top 1000 creators / influencers / celebrities. If anything I find the recommendation algorithm too tuned to my topics of interest so it rarely surfaces new things.

Agreed on the search being less than useless, though.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by justinator »

nicce wrote: post #35
hungryhobbit wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"AI generated video that's impossible to detect" is already something many companies are working on; it's hardly Google-specific.

It already is quite impossible. Just generate something decent with lower quality. Then maybe take screen recording of the output. Voila.

Then "low-quality for no reason in year the 2026 and beyond where phones shoot at 8k" become part of the heuristics.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by techtivist »

Honestly, this whole AI-labeling approach seems to be the opposite approach to take. Instead why not authenticate genuine "non-AI content". Work together with the hardware and software layer with an open approach, building on top of contend id. I appreciate the privacy implications here are complex, and Google is dubious on using any tracking/fingerprinting technology for its self-serving and privacy-invading motivations, but an open cross-industry foundation owning and operating it may be a first step?

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by ge96 »

One field I was wondering about. There are a lot of channels/videos where they take movie summaries, feed it into an AI to generate TTS, graphics... I hate these videos but I'm also like damn good job trying to capitalize on that, why don't I do it kind of thing. I don't have that money making drive/hustle. I need to.

Some are funny some SORA, Neural Viz

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by loganc2342 »

I can already imagine this won’t be perfect (false negatives / false positives, for one thing) but this seems like a huge step in the right direction. Even just giving the “AI” label a more prominent spot than the description is a big deal, particularly for those who are less tech-savvy than your average HN user. My mom, for instance, can watch your one video that’s entirely AI-generated and not bat an eye, but then watch another video that’s clearly real and say it looks “off.” Say what you will about whether AI-generated content is valid or whether it should be allowed on the platform at all, but more transparency is only a good thing.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by scoofy »

p1necone wrote: post #23

Donning my tinfoil hat for a moment, YouTube is in a position here to simultaneously iterate on automatic AI video detection while also working out how to make AI generated video that's impossible to detect.

I think that "impossible to detect" is not something realistic if camera manufacturers are willing to start adding encryption signatures to their cameras outputs and are willing to vouch for them.

I realize this would still allow fakes to be presented by governments in all likelihood, but not everyone.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by epolanski »

floxy wrote: post #7

That's great news. Hopefully there will be a filter to allow or disallow AI video on your homepage/feed.

No joke, I would pay for this more than i do for premium.

Half my feed or suggestions are AI crap.

Sadly I have lots of niche interests (various history topics, or engineering) and there's an endless amount of channels and videos that are entirely AI generated.

And it takes you a while to catch them, because they are well done, even the narrator is fake. But then I realize I'm just watching an AI dramatized summary and I get mad at Youtube.

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