YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 days ago

Dammit YT.

[+] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That sucks.

I've been deliberately leaving mistakes in my videos here and there to protect against any of this automod junk.

[+] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org -14 points 2 days ago (7 children)

i mean this tell you everything that you need to know: as soon as the animation quality of a channel is good enough, it gets accused of being AI. what does this tell us about the quality of AI output?

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[+] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

They were probably right.

Reminder that Kurzgesagt is German government sponsored slop originally created by Bill Gates to spread capitalist propaganda (yes, unironically) https://youtu.be/ZRPcyWNfgxo

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[–] Krusty@quokk.au 0 points 2 days ago

I doubt that. Kur,jiizshit is slop.

[+] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world -7 points 2 days ago (25 children)

Kurzgesagt is slop,

But not AI slop

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

the animation might be low effort, but they are somewhat educational. AI videos are neither.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Any chance you want to explain your position? Might help with the downvotes if you do

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[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That Kurzgesagt channel doesn't sound like a natural human voice to me either. YouTube might be right.

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[+] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net -7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Are they so sure that Kurzgesagt isn't slop? Isn't it funded by the Gates Foundation? The charity arm of Bill "I'm totally not a creepy pedophile monopolist" Gate's PR initiative?

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[+] sumsinj@lemmy.world -8 points 3 days ago

Nothing of value has been lost

[+] thehatfox@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

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[–] join@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Broken clock yada yada.

It may not be AI slob but it’s definitely neo liberal slob. Their pure science videos can be pretty good, but they can‘t help themselves producing videos once in a while presenting their center-right politics with the same gravitas and „objectivity“ as their science content.

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[+] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world -22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

This makes sense. Kurzgesagt makes low quality content that’s poorly researched and has AI overdub. It’s a channel funded partly by a Bill Gates subsidiary, and has to do propaganda for them to meet its budget requirements. To say, “we established ourselves early” as an excuse is dumb. If we’re banning AI slop, then they should be banned.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I dislike how disenting opinions get downvoted on Lemmy/technology probably more than even on reddit.

Everything you said is factually correct.

I disagree that it means they should be banned but they take money from corporations to produce slopaganda, that's just true, and even beyond that their videos are well animated but the moment they touch a subject you actually know about you realize they are just internet researched videos that go a little more in depth that reading the Wikipedia page but it doesn't seem they actually understand what they are talking about, which is fine except that's not what they present themselves as (same with CPG Greg)

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I dislike how disenting opinions get downvoted on Lemmy/technology probably more than even on reddit.

That almost makes it sound unfair, but the technology on Lemmy is doing exactly what each one of us tells it to do every time we cast a vote. It is, as far as I can tell, an exact representation of our own individual votes cast.

I could almost see your point on Reddit because of all the vote fuckery that goes on there, but here on Lemmy blaming a mass downvote on the tech and not on the users casting the votes is a misdirection of blame.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I'm not surprised this channel got caught in the dragnet. It always seemed very close to AI slop before AI slop was a thing.

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[–] angelmountain@lemy.nl -1 points 3 days ago (25 children)

It is possible to just not use YouTube

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