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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by madibo3156 »

csallen wrote: post #200
cloogshicer wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This attitude of "individual cases don't matter as long as the average case is somewhat covered" is exactly why the world's going to shit. The parent post's worry is warranted, IMO.

You're wrong from your very premise. The world isn't going to shit. It's better than it's been at pretty much any time in human history, in almost every facet.

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

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by zuzululu »

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.

I think that is significantly harder to solve for without false positives ruining UX.

I don't think its bad to use AI assistance but what people clearly hate is just copy and paste.

Also its possible to generate extremely natural and casual sounding replies and comments now and you've probably interacted with several AI bots on HN already.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by LastTrain »

Good. The flood of AI slop has basically meant, when searching for videos of a given topic, having to ignore videos created in the last couple of years because a high percentage of them are garbage - a situation that must be devastating for creators of new quality content.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by mschuster91 »

bauble wrote: post #209
topspin wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn't help when searching. I'm looking for specific things as often as I'm clicking on recommendations. What's needed is a global "Hide AI Dreck". Particularly the overwhelming hoard of AI slide-shows masquerading as reviews.

This isn't possible on Youtube right now. The automatic tools for detecting LLM-generated content have far too many false positives. And obviously no one is going to pay an army of people to curate the content. The best thing right now is to rely on the reputation of individual channels that you are personally familiar with. Youtube's automatically applied label will be worse than useless unless they've made some rem…

> This isn't possible on Youtube right now.

Well, theoretically you could build a service providing blocklists, and users could subscribe to such blocklists with a browser extension blocking accounts. Basically Sponsorblock or Blocktogether for Twitter, with individual users flagging accounts for slopaganda, content theft, rage / engagement bait and other issues.

Unfortunately, it's way, way too likely that you'll run into some sort of bot detection on Youtube's side and I've seen more than enough horror stories about people getting fucked over and getting their entire Google account perma-banned with no way of recovery.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by shepherdjerred »

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #230
wnmurphy wrote: post #211

I really want Spotify to follow. I feel cheated and deceived when I'm enjoying some music, then I realize that there's no bio for the artist and they released 7 albums in 2025. Users should be empowered to filter out AI content if they choose.

> I feel cheated and deceived Why? Not trying to argue against AI labeling, but if you are enjoying the music, why does it matter?

For art, I would rather support humans over AI

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Post by wtetzner »

floxy wrote: post #168
dyauspitr wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wouldn't the human creators be the biggest advocates of labeling, so that their content can be more easily found among the AI dross? And that's not considering the fate of the platform as a whole if it descends into low-effort AI spam swamping out everything else. I guess it will be interesting if it is all bots consuming bot-generated content in a parallel economy.

> Wouldn't the human creators be the biggest advocates of labeling, so that their content can be more easily found among the AI dross?

Only if it actually works

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by zuzululu »

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #230
wnmurphy wrote: post #211

I really want Spotify to follow. I feel cheated and deceived when I'm enjoying some music, then I realize that there's no bio for the artist and they released 7 albums in 2025. Users should be empowered to filter out AI content if they choose.

> I feel cheated and deceived Why? Not trying to argue against AI labeling, but if you are enjoying the music, why does it matter?

Based on measured studies, people are not able to discern AI generated music from real ones on average and to your point, I agree, if you enjoy the output then it doesn't make sense to suddenly change your initial opinion.

I do find that AI music tends to be too perfect and overtime using Suno also gets old and I'm just listening to older releases

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