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

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.

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…

AI slopt censoring AI slopt

we need an option to report obvious AI use in videos. currently there is no option to report ai

I have no words.

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.

Looks like more content creators will migrate to Nebula. Or people's Patreon will get flooded with more donations.

Not sure it's possible to fight machine generated slop on the big platforms now. People who invest a lot of time and effort are being squeezed out. Businesses that don't give a fuck about quality upload multiple low effort videos a week across multiple channels getting massive views, probably most from gaming the system.

Sad for the people who spend months researching, writing and producing videos but this might be the end of the ride as far as making videos as a day job. The platform doesn't value them or their loyal viewers.

The creators facing burnout who don't leave out of disgust will join the slop machine and start championing it. Starting to see it already.

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.