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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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There's probably a sizable niche market for an absolutist anti-AI video hosting platform. It doesn't need to be perfect, just needs one simple policy: Post AI and you're banned for life, no appeals.

No appeals combines very poorly with any detector that sometimes has false positives.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#352

I'm curious where the line is.. several ambiguous but common scenarios: - Occasional AI b-roll during explainer videos - AI generated backing track (music) - AI generated shots sprinkled in a short film - Showing examples of AI video as an AI capability update or commentary

Deepfakes in VFX is another borderline one.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#353

I have a hard time believing that AI can be used to label AI-generated videos without there being a significant number of false positives/negatives. I think back to ZeroGPT and it labeling the Declaration of Independence as AI-generated.

All they need to do is "randomly" label 99,999 of every 100,000 as AI and they'll be right 99.999% of the time. Cryptographically verifiable provenance and chain of custody is going to be necessary to get to the human only stuff, before long, but the good AI stuff will be better. Just a matter of time, at this point.

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Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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Rather than genuinely enjoying a well-made/actually entertaining AI content, people are just gonna blindly hate on anything AI-generated.

Until AI companies pay for all the content that they stole, I think that is a reasonable response.

Until humans pay for all the "content that they stole" and learned from, I think that is reasonable response.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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post #281

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Rather than genuinely enjoying a well-made/actually entertaining AI content, people are just gonna blindly hate on anything AI-generated.

As they should. AI can't create art, because AI doesn't have a sense of expression.

You're right, there's always a human driving the AI to create art.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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_before_? youtube is like the top 1000 creators / influencers / celebrities, 5% actual videos, and the rest is slop of various types for me. The search is entirely gone and will straight up not list regular content that was made by humans, but it will absolutely surface the cheap AI-voices that can't say HVAC fluently. Makes sense for youtube, too. For the average person, that seems to be enough, the ads are the same…

If you only visit youtube.com logged out in a private window, obviously it's going to show you what's the most popular. What else should it be doing? Personally I never see those top 1000 creators / influencers / celebrities. If anything I find the recommendation algorithm too tuned to my topics of interest so it rarely surfaces new things. Agreed on the search being less than useless, though.

Agreed. Youtube recommendations are genuinely great for me. Most of the time I'll be recommended so many more good videos than I have time for, that my "watch later" playlist only keeps growing.

Compared with, say, Netflix, where even though I've been rating everything I watch on there for 5+ yrs, the recommendations still barely feel personalized (if anything, it feels like it personalizes which premade "top list" to show me, but not the titles within them...but it does personalize the cover art/thumbnail, lol).

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

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There are millions of people making music in an ever-expanding set of genres. The idea that no one is making 80s or 90s style music is absurd. I guess she can listen to slop but maybe just look around a little instead? Edit: slop not slob

> The idea that no one is making 80s or 90s style music is absurd. The idea that only humans can make music is absurd. > I guess she can listen to slob but maybe just look around a little instead? The idea that AI generated = slop is absurd. Humans create just as much, if not more slop. Look at 99% of "professional" output in creative fields. It's awful. A human with taste steering AI tools can be better than a "clas…

I did not expect that one to show up here on HN, but it's definitely a human artist using AI. He has a few others which are just as entertaining.

Re: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

#360

Everywhere (reddit, YouTube, Spotify) need to have a button to flag and then flag as ai. Reddit really has it buried in multiple levels of menus. People are pretty darn good now at spotting ai. An alternative is just use ai to look at the comments. Almost anything with AI has comments complaining about it. All of these sites need to deal with it because it does drive away users.

And, as always, flagging will be abused to downrank content that people/bots/spammers/scummy-businesses/etc. would prefer you not to see.

Just penalize people for false flagging, and penalize false copyright claims while we're at it.
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