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• YouTube is making it easier than ever to spot AI-generated videos.

• The company is rolling out new labels for both long-form videos and Shorts that make it clear which videos were produced using AI.

• YouTube is also rolling out a new automatic detection system to spot AI videos even if a creator doesn't make a disclosure.

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[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

Will I be able to see that before clicking on the video? I just got an update and the video information is now squished to a single line. So if the channel name is long, I can't see the age of the video. If they add it to the end, everyone will just have long names to hide it.

[–] stormio@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

I think a more aggressive approach is needed. Instead of simply tagging AI-generated videos that did not disclose the use of AI, those videos should be automatically unlisted. False positives may happen and they can be appealed. I'm not normally in favour of "guilty until proven innocent" policies, but in the case of deceptive AI videos (especially political ones), it's what we need.

[–] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

how about FILTERING if it has AI content in it? Like, I don't want porn/risque content on my search, means they have the mean to tag videos and filter it.

How about filtering slop too?

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I report those. I hope the automated systems just takes those channels down.

[–] Pickleideas@lemmy.world 77 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Also they need to ban Ai videos from YT Kids

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Or just ban them all together

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Or at least make the fucking "thumbs down" mean something.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Same goes for "do not recommend channel" and "not interested"

[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 2 points 7 hours ago

Absolutely!

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

will someone please think of the retention numbers

a measure that will actually help protecting kids? Not on their watch

[–] iceberg314@slrpnk.net 77 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I actually support this as long as the false positives are not too bad

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Good luck with that. YouTube content moderation is notoriously automated.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 27 points 13 hours ago

I don't think Youtube's history on false positives for things is all that stellar. Maybe if they get AI to help it will... oh, no, it will make it far worse than even Youtube can do alone.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

The problem is most humans are horrible at it. youll see 10 year old videos reposted and people scream AI!!!

btw: my new mission is to not refer to anything as ai. its a bad blanket statement. so video generators or llms.

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 40 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Let us filter out the AI videos cowards

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If they're adding a label you can just use that label to block them with ublock.

[–] tahoe@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It kind of does it by itself if you use the algorithm correctly, I was seeing some AI slop in my shorts like a year ago but after having disliked it/reported it, it seems to have gone away. I haven’t seen a single AI video in many months

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Every single AI short video that shows up I thumbs down and tell me never to show me that channel again. Doesn't stop like 85% of my feed from being essentially the same AI short videos by users with names like agagin9927385, liafu63836662, or crazyvideos445442..I spend more times thumbs downing and saying never to show this again than I do watching the videos.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Same. I never see AI slop. Or politics. My algorithm is dialed in and my recommended is all bangers.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

That's a trial and error approach for something that could easily be a simple setting.

It also doesn't work if you use an alternative front end or aren't signed in.

Additionally it also depends entirely on the content you view and your viewing enough of it to train the algorithm, which means new accounts or little used accounts have no recourse.

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

You mean the YouTube that dumps out AI summaries of the videos you're on their platform specifically to watch directly? That YouTube?

Surely they aren't a company composed of two-faced slimeballs like their parent. That would be unheard of.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Obligatory "fuck AI," however I've reluctantly found that the AI summaries can be helpful on occasion, such as when deciding if a video with a clickbaity title is actually worth watching, or when I'm on YouTube looking for a solution to a problem (in which case the summary can sometimes get me the content way faster than watching the video). So of all the dumb shit YouTube has done to their platform in recent years, I'd argue the AI summaries fall on the "actually not that bad" end of the spectrum.

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

That's very fair, it's definitely in the vein of what LLMs are (theoretically) meant for, i.e. summarization and language parsing/analysis. I find that LLMs work pretty well for translation too. It's just a shame that executives have run it to the ground like they usually do. And the people poisoning us are the same ones treating it in this case.

[–] x264@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

My bet is it will only check for SynthID

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 13 hours ago

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

It's very easy to not watch the ai videos when it's getting more difficult to watch youtube without an account.