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YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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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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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I feel It is less that AI content is difficult to detect and more that the AI technology Youtube is using to detect it is complete trash.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    I respectfully disagree.

    Have you seen what Minimax H3 can output, on a desktop? Even dirt-cheap AI video gen is basically undetectable now. I think all YouTube can filter is the absolute “bottom barrel” spammers still using some old model because they don’t know any better.

    And if they train detectors on “stereotypical” AI output like Ghibli style or flat colors or whatever, they’re just going to nuke channels like Kurzgesagt while most AI slop spammers adapt to get through. There’s literally nothing for detectors to go on anymore.

    …But also, YT doesn’t even care.

    The filters make next quarter look better because they do catch the bottom barrel, and that’s all that matters.

    If the slop videos get through, the average user won’t see the difference either, so why should they care?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    There’s literally nothing for detectors to go on anymore.

    It's harder for users as well. Even youtubers I've followed for a while have started using the recipe of having a ridculous thumbnail such as "WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS" with an arrow pointing to something. After a couple of times of catching me because I own one of the things the arrow is pointing to (and then watching a 10:01 long video not talking about the item in question) I decided not to fall for it. I noticed that discovery of a new channel got hard. They're all following the recipe now since I guess youtube mandates it, so it's the same bas relief thumbnails that seem like they pose a question and a video that doesn't answer it. We'll end up with a new Betteridge's Law and the resource youtube once was is lost forever and we'll stand around making dumb faces thinking how we're all getting ripped off...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I wish more people that oppose ai would actually keep up with it so they don't regurgitate outdated information, or claims that nobody will use it when it stops being subsidized.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    To be fair, people generally won’t keep up with something they aren’t interested in, much less something they are actively disinterested in. That’s reasonable.

    I do have an irrational pet peeve of people making claims on something they know little about though, which is why I may have come on as hostile…

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Makes me angry my country is now split as far as AI slop awareness is concerned: some are opposed (look up so-called Pax Silica), while others are embracing the garbage full on as if it's gonna make them more money, and still others unaware it could affect them sooner or later, especially as the government thinks AI is a boon when it's really not.

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