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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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post #7

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

I wish the same thing for the "AI dubbed" videos.

I find them to be flatly insulting to the original content. I'd rather hear the creators original voice and read machine translated subtitles.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#175
post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

People make a living off this platform though, this could be really bad for someone that lives off of YouTube to have their videos labeled as AI generated. This would still be OK if there was a person at YouTube you could contact to manually review and reverse the decision, but that doesn’t really exist so there’s no one you can really appeal to in a timely manner.

Lots of people making a living off the platform clearly use LLMs to write their scripts. Its kind of weird hearing a person talk to me about something, and then notice characteristic chatgpt patter in their speech.

I'm sure many content creators' videos will be labelled as AI generated. For good reason.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#176
post #7

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

I wish the same thing for the "AI dubbed" videos. I find them to be flatly insulting to the original content. I'd rather hear the creators original voice and read machine translated subtitles.

The individual creator can turn that off in settings — however, it was enabled automatically for everyone, and creators have to know to turn it off...

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#177
post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

People feel strongly about AI generated content; this is a case where false positives can destroy credibility and disrupt careers. "Works most of the time" isn't good enough here.

They don’t seem to care about false positives anywhere else on the platform. Being at the mercy of automated Google systems comes with the territory.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#179
post #49

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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.

You still ultimately have the analogue hole here - pull the camera apart, splice your own hardware somewhere between the sensor and the thing that adds the signatures (or in front of the sensor).

Or just straight up point the camera at a computer monitor, without even trying to hide it. Most of the security camera footage online is already uploaded this way.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#180

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.

I thought about "poisoning" in this context as well. Even if there is not that much AI, if there is enough that you start second guessing every other comment, I start thinking what am I doing there.
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