I need your help.

iams

@randahl @elCelio I respect your position, but I suspect a deeper anaysis would reveal that the incentives favour a total pivot to generative AI content, and I fear the tipping point is far closer than we think. I am terribly ignorant, tho wide strokes and public information appear to paint a picture of current and past media harvest to supplant with purchased narrative and low-risk scam. It's burning hot at both ends of the fuze. Not enuf room to expound upon, thank goodness, eh?

Andy :blobcatcoffee:

@randahl Done!

MrsE

@randahl Done!

Toni Aittoniemi

@randahl I wonder if the prompt to generate all of these said "Start with 'Everyone's talking about'"

In any case though, this is a worrying development. This flooding the zone -type propaganda probably even makes commercial sense. The youtube algorithm probably funnels users to these deepfake channels free of charge!

Mark Shane Hayden

@randahl the YouTube trash fire is out of control. Paul is the latest in a number of vloggers on that cursed platform being exploited by AI slopmongers

https://coales.co/@msh/115815674544753933

I don't even trust the view or engagement numbers either at this point. Literally most of the new content is slop, and more and more viewers and comments are bots and YouTube just doesn't care their platform is basically a wasteland now. It totally feels like trying to use Yahoo Chat rooms in the early 2000s.

How much longer is this sustainable? I really feel bad for creators who have become dependent on YouTube for their livelihood.

Ben M0SWV 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

@randahl done

Daniel Gibert

@randahl Done

(Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho

@randahl done.

Conny Nasch

@randahl Done

txtx 🇪🇺🇺🇦

@randahl Sent my complaint.

Paul Chambers🚧

@randahl oh what fresh hell AI is

The Animal and the Machine

@randahl
Thank you for doing this. We need to protect creators. I follow him and am happy to act on it. I have reported it as ‘impersonation’.

acffh morst

@randahl
Please tell me the name or link me to Paul’s real channel! I want to turn that channel in for impersonation! Good looking out, bro.
Also, I want to subscribe to Paul’s real channel at your recommendation!

Frieke

@djembro I've heard of Peertube. (Not dived into that myself)

@randahl

Frieke

@randahl done.
He did use the copyright rapport function himself I hope? (Tried "legal", but that's for the owner of content.)

Ondřej Michálek

@randahl
Youtube just showed me fake Yanis Varoufakis the other day - not that I’d watch him, since the Russian invasion - and being unprepared it took me a while to realise that it wasn’t the person reading some weird press release but an AI clickbaity impersonation.
We need to escape those crap suggesting algorithms!

Electropict

@christineburns @randahl

An additional element of this attack may be that if a significant number of people block (from inside or outside the YT system) an impersonator, that may be interpreted as unwillingess to view similar content i.e. the original being impersonated, downgrading their ranking. Not sure to what degree this would work, though.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey

@paul It's nightmarish.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

@electropict @randahl For that to be feasible the algorithm would have to be assuming from the beginning that the content was bogus. I.e. Google would be saying “Oh, this person likes or doesn’t like fake AI slop, hang on whilst I get some more”

Hans Dampf

@randahl 10x Done. It looks so real, amazing! ...and terrifying!