At one time I enjoyed YouTube, but sadly you no longer can be sure that anything is real.
I watched a very long video supposed to be by Brian Cox. It was clearly not by Brian Cox. Last week I watched a video that was meant to be the thoughts of Einstein.
The message is clear: you cannot know what is real and what is AI. The only thing you can do is assume everything is generated by AI unless you can be absolutely certain of the source.
You are spot on with AI on You Tube. There was a thought when this first started to grow that You Tube would step in and stop it but no they embraced it. So this just shows You Tube is simply a money making entity with no real concern over content so long as it generates ad revenue. I have been told that some people now have more than 100 channels. You tube does not pay that much so having 100 channels allows people to "earn" an adequate income.
ReplyDeleteWith AI content is easy to create, easy to steal someone else's content feed it into AI and come out slightly different and hey presto. I have seen someone's post where they claim that within a few days of posting, a copy of their well researched content appeared and this second "creator" claimed copyright so You Tube demonetized this first creator post.
Personally I think You Tube will drive themselves out of business with this approach.
There are ways to pick up You Tube content.
1. Channel name. All sort of new channel names have started appearing on You Tube. Many of these are AI generated and sound obviously fake.
2. Often a genuine new topic or post will have 2 or 3 copies up within a week or so.
3. Many of these new posts are copies of posts from several years ago.
4. You can tell by the picture quality, its either too good or poor. By too good I mean if you see something and wonder how was it possible to take that picture then it probably wasn't. An example being a colour view from the first world war.
5. Poor grammar or punctuation. I don't think You Tube AI people do any checking of content overwise some of the real howlers would not be out there.
6. Common phrases such as asking viewers to let people know where they are watching from because they are "genuinely" interested.
7. Music videos based on still pictures often very poorly produced. At one point at least three groups were redoing the Beatles catalogue. This stopped so I guess the copyright owner acted.
8. Use of famous and popular people to add believability to their video. This is happening in adds as well.
I guess we will get used to it soon enough.
I believe nothing that I see, read, or hear on u-tube, now. I do view old movies found there. Also, classical music selections. That is the extent of my engagement. 73.
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