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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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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 6 days ago

is Youtube/Google speed running their death?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] MichaelTen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

We need decentralized video platforms that have revenue sharing.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 days ago

Nah thats correct kurzgesagt is slop

[–] Moryel@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days 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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 187 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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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[–] stevles@aussie.zone 96 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago (1 children)

...while offering video making AI tools.

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[–] Wfh@lemmy.zip 75 points 1 week ago (9 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...

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

KZ feels a little sloppy at times, I stopped following it

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[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (4 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.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

They are, they’re trying, they’re pushing other platforms constantly. Kurzgesagt already does, heavily.

But are users switching? Nope.

They hardly even know they exist.

Sometimes I even see such a comment on YouTube, a user questioning YouTube; yet they didn’t even watch the video long enough to see the creator promoting an alternative platform.

They’ve already scrolled to the next video, algorithmically fed to them.


YouTube has an iron grip on YT users, and they know it. Even if ALL creators band together, IMO there’s basically nothing the creators can do.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

They do. Ironically a lot of users criticise particular group of people of users being in the grip of sky etc.

I know the word addiction isn’t quite right but YT is still a social media.

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

I bailed on YouTube a few years ago. I had a video with a very clearly public domain piece of music (both the song and the performance) in it, which I didn't monetize just because I hate ads and the channel wasn't very popular anyway. Some bot flagged the public domain song for copyright and YouTube not only gave me a copyright strike but also added paid ads into my video without my consent so they could send the ad money to whoever it was that flagged it.

I didn't even bother to contest that one, I just deleted my entire channel and sent them a very angry message telling them to go fuck themselves lol.

I will never use them again because of that, and I'm so glad I got out before AI became a thing. Fuck YouTube.

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[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 week ago (14 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 6 days ago

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

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

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh you used a big word, AI phony!

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

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ironically it's probably because so many of the slop videos try and copy their style. However I would have thought YouTube would be more proactive with a channel with 25M subs.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week 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.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] LavenderBreton@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Such a shame because I wish people gave PeerTube a chance. Now, it's apparently overrun by absolute loons.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

What part of AI hallucinates do you not fucking understand?

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week 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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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week 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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