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

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Post by Schnitz »

arcfour wrote: post #23
Schnitz wrote: post #13

I’ve found that the AI label doesn’t necessarily mean AI slop, it just means there’s a non zero amount of AI in the video. I want to avoid AI slop but not all videos that have an AI title screen or whatever.

Yeah, I make song remixes in the style of a particular video game and while the music is completely human written (by me), I'll often have AI generated or edit the "cover art" for me so people have something to look at/chuckle at. These videos are still marked as AI, and fairly so; however I don't think that means people should want them hidden :-(

With music it’s especially bad because people will assume the music itself is AI generated, when in your case it isn’t.

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

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Post by kamyarg »

ssernikk wrote: post #63

I love this concept, but use Firefox, so I ported it: https://github.com/kacperwyczawski/herbisight (herbisight -> herbicide -> weeds, you know) I've just submitted it to AMO for review (in the meantime, you can load extension/ via about:debugging). Will update the repo with the store link once approved!

Started working on a port yesterday and got time to continue today and just saw you had the same idea. Sharing for anyone interested:

https://github.com/kamyar/youtube-without-ai

Signed extension can be downloaded from latest release page:

https://github.com/kamyar/youtube-without-ai/releases/latest

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

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Post by arcfour »

Schnitz wrote: post #83
arcfour wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I make song remixes in the style of a particular video game and while the music is completely human written (by me), I'll often have AI generated or edit the "cover art" for me so people have something to look at/chuckle at. These videos are still marked as AI, and fairly so; however I don't think that means people should want them hidden :-(

With music it’s especially bad because people will assume the music itself is AI generated, when in your case it isn’t.

Yes, I'm thinking I'll stop doing it from now on since YouTube doesn't make the distinction.

I figured that LLMs saving me the 20 mins in GIMP making a silly joke filler album cover was the perfect use case... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

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Post by arcfour »

Planktonne wrote: post #62
arcfour wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the difference between me pasting a face over a body in GIMP manually and me prompting an LLM to make the same edit, faster, and better than I would by hand? They aren't particularly high-effort. The artwork isn't really the point, but I can't just upload a black video...

AI-generated anything sends a message of 'I do not care about quality'. You might feel that that's unfair, but it's the impression you're making on a large segment of your potential audience.

So if I uploaded a black screen, or a black screen with text (the title of the song), that would be sending a message...that I do care about quality...? Since there was no AI?

As opposed to thinking of a play on words between the game/the original song and having an AI make the joke cover per my directions, instead of me just doing it (worse) by hand, which is "I don't care about quality?"

The whole point of the video is not the visual component, it's really just about sharing the non-AI music.

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

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Post by davidoduk »

Suppafly wrote: post #41
ungreased0675 wrote: post #15

I’d love a small local model that detects AI voices and blocks the content.

I'm not even sure you'd need AI for that, there are only like 3 voices that are ever used.

And they all have the same tone, same inflection

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

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Post by davidoduk »

mikeweiss wrote: post #16
thatmf wrote: post #2

I wish I had this but for every website and media surface

Need the EU, or California or some other large jurisdiction to create a law requiring identifying labels on all AI content

AI companies would lobby hard against such a law

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

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Post by Planktonne »

arcfour wrote: post #87
Planktonne wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI-generated anything sends a message of 'I do not care about quality'. You might feel that that's unfair, but it's the impression you're making on a large segment of your potential audience.

So if I uploaded a black screen, or a black screen with text (the title of the song), that would be sending a message...that I do care about quality...? Since there was no AI? As opposed to thinking of a play on words between the game/the original song and having an AI make the joke cover per my directions, instead of me just doing it (worse) by hand, which is "I don't care about quality?" The whole point of the vide…

Pretty much, yes. People read no visuals or poor visuals as 'hobbyist who really cares about [other aspect]'; years of experience make it a familiar schema.

They read AI as 'grifter who probably doesn't care about any aspect'.

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