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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by asveikau »

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…

You and I must be watching a very different YouTube. I don't see a lot of AI generated stuff in my recommendations or search.

My teenage daughter gets served a lot of iffy stuff with the ElevenLabs Adam voice though. Though sometimes I suspect some of that content is written manually by people who may not have great English speaking voices, so they add generated audio.

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Post by dragontamer »

Can YouTube stop shoving terrible robot-English AI dubs down my throat?

I once looked up a German language test. It was auto-AI dubbed into English. Ugggghhhhh..... There are also a lot of anime where the AI dub essentially removes the music and sound effects and leaves only a dreary AI voiceover. It's kinda crazy that Google is pushing this feature out....

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Post by Dwedit »

650REDHAIR wrote: post #19

Isn’t YouTube applying weird AI processing to shorts? So all shorts will be labeled? Maybe I’m not the target audience for Google products anymore? I have to use Yandex and DDG for search results now. Gemini has insane throttling so I’ve just embraced local models for most things and the occasional API call to whatever frontier model I think will work best. YouTube search is abysmal and new content is 98% consumerism…

I think the "weird AI processing" might have been someone misunderstanding a compression codec. When laypeople see anything advanced, it's always called AI no matter what it actually is, and that's the word that spreads around.

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Post by AmbroseBierce »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #55
scoofy wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Who posts raw output from cameras anywhere? This doesn't seem useful outside some niche use-cases (like security camera footage). At a minimum just about every recording is going to be re-compressed for streaming.

I bet the cameras' companies will start automatically uploading the real footage to their servers for attestation, and allow the camera owners to get those links, so people will just add that link on YouTube or whatever and say "See, its real, Sony vouches for it", heck maybe they will make their buyers to sign up with YouTube and do it for them.

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Post by AmbroseBierce »

mkhalil wrote: post #51
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.

> "while also working out how to make AI generated video that's impossible to detect." what gives you that impression? Google is spends millions of dollars researching and implementing SynthID [0]; ensuring all videos generated have a watermark to ensure they can be detected. As well as using SynthID to detect AI-generated videos, which is what I am guessing they are using @ YT to detect and label the AI videos. I am…

Yeah, like Google doesn't know other hundreds of companies are also generating videos and will without the slightest shred of doubt will use reinforced learning to bypass this detection, meaning directly asking Google's AI if a picture they modified is AI or not to improve their algorithms, they know vouching for video is as useful as vouching for AI generated texts, zero.

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Post by Ukv »

scoofy wrote: post #49
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.

Pointing the camera at a screen could potentially evade that.
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