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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Pointing the camera at a screen could potentially evade that.

Right, but my point is that a video of a screen should be less believable than the source video insofar as verifying legitimacy.

I feel it wouldn't be too difficult to get a social-media video to look convincing enough even with just a regular camera and monitor, at least after compression (if end users aren't served raw footage directly, and instead trust the attestation of the site).

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Can YouTube stop shoving terrible robot-English AI dubs down my throat? I once looked up a German language test. It was auto-AI dubbed into English. Ugggghhhhh..... There are also a lot of anime where the AI dub essentially removes the music and sound effects and leaves only a dreary AI voiceover. It's kinda crazy that Google is pushing this feature out....

You can configure your preferred languages in YT settings, so it doesn’t do that. The setting is obscure, but it’s there

I don’t know that Settings -> languages is obscure

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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It already is quite impossible. Just generate something decent with lower quality. Then maybe take screen recording of the output. Voila.

Then "low-quality for no reason in year the 2026 and beyond where phones shoot at 8k" become part of the heuristics.

I find it super ironic that we're basically here: https://xkcd.com/1683/ now. The 90s and 00s tech people would be very disappointed :-))

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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There's no way to switch back to the original audio track? I agree you shouldn't have to but I'm wondering if it's possible.

You can change the audio track back to the original. Not sure if it remembers your preference, though, so if it doesn't that probably grates.

It doesn't remember my preference. Or rather, it seems to remember me picking a specific language, and then loads the dub in that language next time I click a video. It doesn't remember "don't duh videos".

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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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.

Leica started doing this a few years ago in response to the first wave of AI images[0]. Other, bigger manufacturers (Nikon, Canon, Sony as well I believe) have also joined, though with less fanfare. Adobe is in the loop. As someone with a passing interest in infosec and cryptography, I'm sceptical of the long-term viability of this kind of product; it only takes one person successfully extracting a signing key to und…

Yes, you're correct about private keys getting exposed, but it's better than nothing. I suspect though, even after key exposure there may be a way to make new private keys so that compromised keys have a known point when they are compromised, which makes public how much skepticism we should all have about authenticity.

I just think there is a world of difference between "certainty" and "plausibility" when it comes to videos on the internet. Yes, state actors might circumvent it, and skepticism should remain, but there is a world of difference between North Korea trying to convince me of some political scandal, and Pepsi Co trying to convince me that someone I trust loves Pepsi.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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This is fine, good, whatever... but my thing is can creators remove it successfully for 'false flags'.

> However, according to YouTube, the AI labels will “remain permanent” in some cases,

YouTube isn't exactly known for taking care of complaints/having any human on the other end to deal with these kinds of things.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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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 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.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Donning my tinfoil hat for a moment, YouTube is in a position here to simultaneously iterate on automatic AI video detection while also working out how to make AI generated video that's impossible to detect.

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).

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#109
It must be a tricky problem to balance. On the one hand, you as Google want people to create 30 seconds of video per month with your cool Omni, Flow, Gemini, etc. tools.

On the other hand, as soon as people share those things on the logical platform for sharing videos, they'll be branded with the scarlet letter.

I wonder what Google is thinking - that people won't mind? That it won't matter? That Omni is just marketing and they don't actually want people to use it?

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