Comment by shevy-java
8 hours ago
> YouTube channels with AI generated videos have exploded in sheer quantity, and I think majority of the new channels and videos uploaded to YouTube might actually be AI; "Dead internet theory," et al.
Yeah. This has really become a problem.
Not for all videos; music videos are kind of fine. I don't listen to music generated by AI but good music should be good music.
The rest has unfortunately really gotten worse. Google is ruining youtube here. Many videos now contain real videos, and AI generated videos, e. g. animal videos. With some this is obvious; other videos are hard to expose as AI. I changed my own policy - I consider anyone using AI and not declaring this properly, a cheater I don't want to ever again interact with (on youtube). Now I need to find a no-AI videos extension.
I've seen remarkably little of this when browsing youtube with my cookie (no account, but they know my preferences nonetheless.) Totally different story with a clean fresh session though.
One that slipped through, and really pissed me off because it tricked me for a few minutes, was a channel purportedly uploading videos of Richard Feynman explaining things, but the voice and scripts are completely fake. It's disclosed in small print in the description. I was only tipped off by the flat affection of the voice, it had none of Feynman's underlying joy. Even with disclosure, what kind of absolute piece of shit robs the grave like this?
The barrier to entry for grifting has been lowered, and for existing grifters they can put together some intricate slop. Of course Google doesn't care, they get to show ads against AI slop the same as normal human generated slop.
A fun one was from some minor internet drama around a Battlefield 6 player who seemed to be cheating. A grifter channel pushing some "cheater detection" software started putting out intricate AI generated nonsense that went viral. Searching Karl Jobst CATGIRL will explain.