Comment by aorth

12 hours ago

Last year a non-technical friend sent me a YouTube video about a niche history topic that we had been discussing. I was surprised because there wasn't much information online. The video was clearly AI generated, with that sheen on the pictures and that perfect voice. I couldn't listen to it. I told my friend and he was adamant it was original. Yikes...

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fnord77  12 hours ago

some people seem to be completely unable to detect AI slop

  • sixothree  11 hours ago

    This biggest offender creeping into my feeds currently seems to be long form history videos. I'll be 10 minutes into a 90 minute WWII video and notice a completely incorrect pronunciation of something and realize what is happening. They're certainly getting better at fooling us. Especially when they speak slowly with a calm voice.

    • datsci_est_2015  4 hours ago

      Why don’t you have preferred channels and content creators?

      Things I would do before committing time to a random channel on a topic I’m interested in:

        - Search my trusted communities and channels for alternative recommendations on that topic
  - Ask (create a post) for recommendations on a topic in my trusted communities
  - Request my preferred content creators create content on that topic
  - Search for sentiment regarding the new channel (accuracy, trustworthiness)

      It’s kind of surprising to me that people don’t curate trusted communities / channels, like 3Brown1Blue, Kurzgesagt, Veritasium, Hardcore History, etc.

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  • mcv  7 hours ago

    And that is a serious problem. That means those people are easy to mislead, and can be made to believe anything if you just put it in an AI video. I've seen people get upset or feel touched by what to me were blatantly obvious AI generated videos. It's as if reality just doesn't matter anymore. (See also the state of politics lately.)