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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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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 hours ago

Nah thats correct kurzgesagt is slop

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago

is Youtube/Google speed running their death?

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

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 points 1 day 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 15 points 1 day 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?

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days 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 8 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days 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.

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[–] Moryel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 days ago (13 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 7 points 1 day ago

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

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

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oh you used a big word, AI phony!

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

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

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[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

real human intelligence seems utterly alien in this world

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[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 15 points 2 days 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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[–] stevles@aussie.zone 95 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...while offering video making AI tools.

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This is also a company pushing AI

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 183 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (17 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.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The best solution would be to turn away from detectors, which will always be a losing game, and return to crowdsourced curation through users likes and ratings.

But that would end up with too many of the corporate propaganda videos getting tanked with dislikes so YouTube will never go for that.

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (6 children)

For every ten users who decry AI voices and animation, a thousand more will blindly click "Like" and "Subscribe". The people have spoken, and they want to eat straight from the fertilizer pile.

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[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 days ago (14 children)

One of the largest slop-machines targeting one of the most vocal and popular anti-slop edutainment channels as slop feels like a targeted attack...

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days 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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[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago (14 children)

The least they could do is have a fucking white list.

This should also be a really big sign for all these content creators to bunch up and find an alternative.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Youtube's system sucks, but I don't feel bad for many of these channels. They used to be great. You could learn a lot while eating, or just entertain yourself without brainrot.

For a few years now, however, increasing numbers of their videos have been sponsored by billionaires (or their chains of companies or foundations), either in part or in full. Some extreme cases are just plain propaganda.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's the youtube dream. Pretend to be genuine long enough to attract an audience that will attract a dark money suger daddy sponsorship gravy train and it's all daisies from there on out.

Literally the same as a politician.

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