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YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

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[–] Moryel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

İt feels like humans have no rights to speak or dislike or express any opinion online only fake numbers matters and the best part is ai slop is feeding from ai slop to make more ai slop ı wonder when this nonsense comes to end

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

that's what happens when your AI slop detector is AI slop

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 16 points 21 hours ago

Reminds me of that comic the other day

Kurzgesagt: Let's keep our art human made.

Google: Kurzgesagt, your content looks like this low quality AI slop!

🤖: I'D LIKE TO THANK KURZGESAGT FOR BEING A BIG INSPIRATION TO ME.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

Vacuum up the internet, provide generative "AI" for people to spew tons of garbage on to the internet. Everyone hates AI, and advertisers don't want ads showing against AI slop. AI can't accurately detect AI and kills real content providers that advertisers want to show ads for.

Brilliant. What will they come up with next?

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At the same time YouTube offers a prompt to generate more AI content.

No, this is just a stunt to claim that it is difficult to detect AI slop, when in reality they want that content as it is more addictive, especially to kids.

[–] filcuk@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago

Intentional stunt? That's highly unlikely.
It is difficult to detect AI slop, probably exponentially so when it's a video compared to image or text. I don't know why you said it like there's a ready to use solution YouTube isn't using for some reason.

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Yet YouTube Music is absolutely rife with AI bullshit. So much fake-ass viking, cowboy, or other 'badass' AI generated slop.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

thats why im always hitting the report button. be part of the solution. not passively part of the problem.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I would say that being part of the solution is not using their service at all.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I was recently accused on Lemmy of using AI to write up a post (laced with links to appropriate Wikipedia articles).

I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

I’m still not sure how I feel about it.

That's because machines don't have feelings. /s

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh you used a big word, AI phony!

Nah dude, I just . . . know how to write?

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

real human intelligence seems utterly alien in this world

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[–] parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

Huh — Now that you say it.
No, I did not - 🤖

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the shit state of the world now. Everything gets accused of being AI by someone. The AI tech bros have well and truly won. They've poisoned everything.

I'd argue that the Fuck_AI crowd who slanders and also sexually harasses people are helping them. I hate this big tech companies just as much as they do. I'm not going to sexually harass someone I think is using their service though.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

The goddamn banchode running the biz, and greenlit this garbage moderation. Fuck AI.

[–] Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

I'm sure the bill gates money will protect them lol

[–] stevles@aussie.zone 90 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Using AI to detect AI has, time and time again, proven to be a broken idea. Here is Google with a genius idea: use AI to detect AI, to prevent AI videos.

Keep in mind folks, this is a global top-three company in terms of revenue.

This is also a company pushing AI

[–] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...while offering video making AI tools.

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

YouTube’s bullshit is having some interesting effects for sure. Have you noticed how more and more channels are now including short clips of them doing the actual voiceover? It’s usually not even that long, like a second or two or sometimes even less. But apparently that’s now needed to prove that there’s an actual human behind the channel.

I do find it a bit distracting, but I’d rather not lose those channels either…

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 181 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (24 children)

Yeah, it’s bad.

Non-watermarked slop is going to be impossible to detect going forward, and the false detections are going to get worse.

The fundamental issue is the monetization scheme. It’s just too lucrative for spammers. YouTube’s economics are broken, and getting worse.

…Hence, no matter what YouTube says, YouTube is going to double down on “detectors,” because Alphabet leadership couldn’t care less about destroying longstanding creators. Their only objective is to suppress just enough spam to keep ad buyers unconcerned next quarter, no matter the long term damage; that’s someone else’s problem.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Funny, because I can still see a lot of slop still on the site.

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