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Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

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Re: Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

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Post by tatoalo »

tartoran wrote: post #32

This is great and hope it'll be compatible with more and more browsers. This should be done by youtube themselves. It's so simple for them to label AI generated content so people can either look for it or avoid it but they won't do it. I'm not sure how they profit from AI gen videos over regular videos... I was looking for a setting to turn off Youtube Shorts but there's no way to do it, it's like that by design, You…

> I was looking for a setting to turn off Youtube Shorts

I put out shortless [0] for the very same reason...I just hate them. This works only on Safari, but I stopped using the native app altogether a long time ago, so it wasn't that big of a jump for me :)

[0]: https://shortless.app

Re: Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

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Post by shoobiedoo »

karim79 wrote: post #20

My pet peeve is the AI generated voices. I absolutely love the cosmology-astrophysics-space stuff. And it can be any crap if it's correct enough and entertaining enough and passive enough that I can fall asleep to it. But once I detect that the voiceover is AI generated that shit get instablocked forever. It's an instant put-off. Do all the visuals you want with AI as long as they are reasonable but when a human (AI)…

This is especially common in Japan now. I was looking for an audio documentary of the crusades and half of them were done in squeaky anime AI voices

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Post by afavour »

ultrarunner wrote: post #33
tartoran wrote: post #32

This is great and hope it'll be compatible with more and more browsers. This should be done by youtube themselves. It's so simple for them to label AI generated content so people can either look for it or avoid it but they won't do it. I'm not sure how they profit from AI gen videos over regular videos... I was looking for a setting to turn off Youtube Shorts but there's no way to do it, it's like that by design, You…

Shouldn't their presumably unlimited access to Gemini models enable them to implement things like this quickly and easily?

Yes but if it’ll lower overall video minutes viewed it’ll never make it into production.

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Post by flanked-evergl »

YouTube needs a way to report mislabelled AI videos, and actually the "Made with AI" label is a bit misleading. I don't mind if it uses some AI, what I don't want is AI slop, and that can only really be reported by users.

Same with Instagram, they need a way to report AI.

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Post by NotErnie »

tartoran wrote: post #32

This is great and hope it'll be compatible with more and more browsers. This should be done by youtube themselves. It's so simple for them to label AI generated content so people can either look for it or avoid it but they won't do it. I'm not sure how they profit from AI gen videos over regular videos... I was looking for a setting to turn off Youtube Shorts but there's no way to do it, it's like that by design, You…

In the mobile app you can go to Settings > Time Management > Daily Limits > Shorts feed limit and set it to 0 minutes. It removes all shorts from your home feed.

If you click on a short, or the shorts tab you see "you reached your Shorts feed limit".

And if you click on the subcriptions tab theres only one section of shorts at the top and they don't show up again when you scroll down.

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Post by GaryBluto »

negura wrote: post #26

This is what they mean when they say AI amplifies inequality. If you're technically competent, you just write yourself an extension to block the slop spam, or at least pay to install one. So in the end it's rotting much more the brains of the least prepared.

Considering the design and language used on the extension's website I wouldn't doubt it could've been made by someone technically unskilled.
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