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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by parliament32 »

akersten wrote: post #109

It must be a tricky problem to balance. On the one hand, you as Google want people to create 30 seconds of video per month with your cool Omni, Flow, Gemini, etc. tools. On the other hand, as soon as people share those things on the logical platform for sharing videos, they'll be branded with the scarlet letter. I wonder what Google is thinking - that people won't mind? That it won't matter? That Omni is just marketi…

Is it really any different than Google wants advertisers on YT, but still labels ads as ads?

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by justinator »

Ukv wrote: post #80
justinator wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Being pedantic for no reason is one of the heuristics I use to judge how annoying yn users are

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

jameson wrote: post #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

I love how passive aggressive the page becomes: "You turned off recommendations...we won't show you anything else on here either!"

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by zulban »

nickvec wrote: post #133

I have a hard time believing that AI can be used to label AI-generated videos without there being a significant number of false positives/negatives. I think back to ZeroGPT and it labeling the Declaration of Independence as AI-generated.

In theory you're right, in practice you're not.

We don't need the metaphysical solution to the problem of detecting AI videos for the rest of time. Certainly, it's fairly easy to make something that mostly works most of the time. Enough to be very, very useful.

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

codegeek wrote: post #146

I wish all platforms did this specially reddit, twitter etc. I don't use AI to write comments on any platform and always wondering if I am replying to an AI comment.

Makes it much easier to use the Internet less. They're poisoning the ground water of the well, effectively.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by reddalo »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #143
jameson wrote: post #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

I love how passive aggressive the page becomes: "You turned off recommendations...we won't show you anything else on here either!"

Yeah exactly, they could have made their service useful by showing your subscriptions instead. Yet, they decided to enshittify for people who want choices.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by alexpotato »

Cider9986 wrote: post #132
jameson wrote: post #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

When I used to use YT, i used https://untrap.app/ , it was a great improvement. If you think you can't quit youtube, I used to think that way, and then i did it by deleting my account and using libredirect for invidious. my usage went to just a few minutes or 0 per day.

I'm not particularly religious but I did give up Twitter for lent as a test of my self control.

I highly recommend everyone occasionally do this with social media as it was somewhat eyeopening how much better I felt overall. This was mostly due to not being exposed to the doom scrolling you can eventually get pulled into (despite efforts not to).

I did miss feeling like I was "plugged in" to the stream of news/memes etc though.

YMMV but def recommend.

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