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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by a57721 » Thu, May 28, 2026, 4:52 AM UTC

Barbing wrote: post #377

hombre_fatal wrote: post #275

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It's not just look around a little. It's look around a lot. It's spend all your music-listening time looking around. Have the ick for AI-gen, fine. But dismissing the things it solves puts you in a position where you'll never understand other people.

> It's spend all your music-listening time looking around. Spotify algorithm not kind to everyone I suppose… I’m enough of a normie with music it works for me. Crate digging doesn’t feel too time consuming at all (as easy as throwing on quirky California college radio stations).

> quirky California college radio stations

I listen to SomaFM (https://somafm.com/) and FIP (https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip), they have online streams by genre. When something gets me interested, I look up the artist, and I keep discovering lots of new names, independent labels, etc.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by imp0cat » Thu, May 28, 2026, 4:56 AM UTC

shevy-java wrote: post #388

thelucent wrote: post #337

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I did the same too. I listen exclusively to my own songs made with the help of AI. My styles are orchestra and symphony pop, which I find rare these days. Even if it exists, the lyrics might not be something that I enjoy. So I just write my own lyrics, decides on the melodies, and put it to AI to create a polished version. Do I feel emotional when I listen to it? Of course, its my own lyrics that I wrote. Of course I…

That's actually a bit creepy to me. How do you deal with a lack of novelty factor here though? Because ultimately, if you yourself generate all music you listen to, how could anything be surprising? I often listen to songs that surprise me in one way or another.

Does it really have to be suprising? Some people already have a life full of surprises (read: stress). Comforting music can help with that.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by zulban » Thu, May 28, 2026, 4:58 AM UTC

csallen wrote: post #200

cloogshicer wrote: post #158

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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.

Indeed. See also Pinker's book Better Angels.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by Dylan16807 » Thu, May 28, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

abeyer wrote: post #295

Dylan16807 wrote: post #217

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Anything more competent than Microsoft Sam counts as realistic in my book. If their definition excludes narration that would be weird. Their detection might not look at audio right now though.

I suppose, but I guess the quality of voice narration I've heard is still closer to "realistic robot" than anything.

The flaws can be pretty subtle sometimes. I don't want any subtlety. If I'm not hit in the face with a brick over how mechanical it is, put a disclaimer.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by imp0cat » Thu, May 28, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

goshx wrote: post #290

This is much needed. I’ve had family members sending me videos about what looked like news when in fact it was 100% AI. There are photorealistic AI videos pretending to be an old man giving life advice, or business advice, etc. and the disclosures were all the way at the bottom of the video description, very hard to find.

Oh so that explains the recent explosion of "old man gives life advice" videos!

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by zulban » Thu, May 28, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

floxy wrote: post #220

StableAlkyne wrote: post #159

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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.

This isn't even at the level of the spam filter on your email account. Are there some false positives and negatives? Yes. Are there some people sending emails who are negatively affected by falsely ending up in the junk mail folder? Yes. Are we going to turn off spam filtering because of this? No. Why should we accept video spam any more than text spam?

Excellent analogy. I'm going to use that sometime.

Email spam filtering can clearly cause reputational harm too.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by me551ah » Thu, May 28, 2026, 5:03 AM UTC

spullara wrote: post #227

ellrob88 wrote: post #139

Curious to see if this will apply to music. YouTube seems to be filled with AI music these days - just do a search for "focus music" or the like, and you'll see creators pushing new 1-hr tracks every few days with no mention of where the music came from or the fact it is AI generated. People praising it in the comments seem none the wiser (or perhaps they're also bots).

A friend of mine who is a very non-technical dermatologist listens exclusively to Suno songs she made. All in genres and styles of songs from her era, the 80s and 90s. Who else is going to make new songs for her? New music almost always targets young people.

Even for making new music Suno is a godsend. My workflow has changed from making a whole track to just creating some nice loops with my favorite VSTs and asking Suno the rest. I get a song in the exact BPM and style that I wanted, while saving me a ton of time.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by beeandapenguin » Thu, May 28, 2026, 5:03 AM UTC

Submitted some pretty harsh feedback about this back in Jan after my old school technical father in law sent me a few AI generated “news” videos in a row about Trump and Venezuela. The AI label was technically on all of the videos but 3 taps away hidden in the video description, and not visible from the search results at all. So thankful YouTube is doing something about this.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by xpct » Thu, May 28, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

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

This is exactly how I consume YouTube as well. I do keep the side recommendations on since they mostly contain music or videos I've already watched, which I don't mind.

I'm now experimenting with hiding thumbnails too, and honestly I've been liking it a lot. It's a very curious feeling how my eyes can no longer latch on to something visually appealing, and instead try to look for information in channel names.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Post by delis-thumbs-7e » Thu, May 28, 2026, 5:05 AM UTC

thelucent wrote: post #337

spullara wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend of mine who is a very non-technical dermatologist listens exclusively to Suno songs she made. All in genres and styles of songs from her era, the 80s and 90s. Who else is going to make new songs for her? New music almost always targets young people.

I did the same too. I listen exclusively to my own songs made with the help of AI. My styles are orchestra and symphony pop, which I find rare these days. Even if it exists, the lyrics might not be something that I enjoy. So I just write my own lyrics, decides on the melodies, and put it to AI to create a polished version. Do I feel emotional when I listen to it? Of course, its my own lyrics that I wrote. Of course I…

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