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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Just stumbled into an example of #YouTube AI Slop generation in progress. Happened onto a recent (posted within the last week) video purporting to tell of a notorious "deleted scene" from the classic film "Forbidden Planet" (1956). It was obviously AI generated with the typical AI still image manipulations and voice, and never actually showed the scene. However, over the next hour YouTube offered me what seems like dozens of variations of this same video, shorts and non-shorts, all with nearly identical narration, none actually showing the scene, and with posting dates as recent as an hour ago -- many without any views. These still seem to be churning out as I type this -- all on ostensibly different channels containing similar content. Multiply this by all the possible ways this sort of AI Slop could be generated in relation to the vast array of possible content sources, and you see how #YouTube is rapidly become a deep pit of garbage. There is still lots of wonderful stuff on there -- it's still my favorite streaming service by far -- but AI Slop is making finding the worthwhile content ever more difficult. AND GOOGLE DOESN'T CARE OF COURSE -- 'cause an ad is an ad and a click is a click.

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John Morris
@jmorris@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@lauren I think that one popped into my feed too. Saying the year as "one-thousand-nine-hundred and fifty-six" is a good giveaway. The AI slop has definitely gotten a lot worse lately. Google needs to add a flag specifically for reporting this.

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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@jmorris Google doesn't care.

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Shirley Eugest
@EugestShirley@m.ai6yr.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@lauren
I've noticed a number of channels offering up as their own research AI readings of a film buff's blog.

Very disappointing.
If you watch one, they pile on with 10 more different channels narrating the same text.
They don't necessarily know English pronunciation.

I miss their block function.

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🍂mastodonphan🍁
@mast0d0nphan@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@lauren https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#YouTube

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