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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#71

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....

There's no way to switch back to the original audio track? I agree you shouldn't have to but I'm wondering if it's possible.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#72
I've been thinking for some time that it wouldn't be too hard to create a third-party browser extension to crowdsource detection of channels that use primarily AI-generated content (for example, the AI slop music channels that put out multiple hour+ long genre or cover "playlists") and hide them from suggestions or home feeds.

My guess is that Google sees some kind of trend in a contingent of users preferring non-AI content and that surfacing AI content misleadingly has a negative effect on retention / watch time, and/or they're trying to get ahead of long-standing creators taking issue with the platform surfacing AI content disproportionately on account of it being excessively easier to upload in large quantities.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#74
I suggest turning off recommendation if you dislike what they suggest

My YT landing page is completely blank and need to go "subscription" tab to see newly uploaded vids from the ones I subscribe to

It's quite nice not having to view all kinds of random stuff YT wants me to see

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#75

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.

Why is that tinfoil? That's just good business?

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#76
post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How on top of security do you think all the camera manufacturers are going to be? That is, how long until people can sign videos that were not, in fact, shot with their camera?

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#77

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....

You can configure your preferred languages in YT settings, so it doesn’t do that. The setting is obscure, but it’s there

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#78
post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They can attest pictures of my hairy pendulous ballsack.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#79

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....

There are several Chrome extensions for turning that off automatically, but I agree: you should not have to need extensions to use YouTube.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#80
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Would be a fairly weak heuristic, with most social media images/videos already being like that.
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