YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers
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Ackshually, there is a Malcolm in the Middle reboot in the works. It's just got no connection to the fake trailer, beyond that they maybe made the fake trailer to cash in on the news that it's happening.
It always annoys me when I take a chance on an interesting video title/thumbnail from a channel I've never seen before (an increasingly rare occurrence) only to discover it's some form of AI slop. The worse ones are those that take me a minute or more to clock - as I feel like I've wasted my time.
Embarrassingly, there was a short recently that appeared to be the ring camera footage of various porch pirates getting paint-bombed when trying to take packages. There were several tells that should have clued me in (including the fact that the channel name had "AI" in it), but it took someone in one of the comments pointing it out.
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Verily, for they must appease the Mad Orange King or his wrath and extortionate demands for tribute shall fall upon them.
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I'm sure it is important that Google cracked down on some AI slop, but there is so much slop on Youtube that taking down a few channels with a couple of million subscribers is inconsequential. There are thousands of AI slop Youtube channels out there, with hundreds more every day, each with thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers. Youtube could easily fix this, but like Meta not cracking down on ads for fake products from China, there is money to be made in embracing the slop. There is no moral high or low ground, only the place with the most income.
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I'd like a YouTube filter for AI generated content. That way I'd never have skip past the AI slop that keeps creeping into my feed.
Of course, detecting it is currently fairly obvious to humans, but automating it is disastrous. So that's a big issue. Google should be putting a lot of work into AI detecting AI.
Of course, detecting it is currently fairly obvious to humans, but automating it is disastrous. So that's a big issue. Google should be putting a lot of work into AI detecting AI.
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I've basically quit looking at anything other then my subscribed channels, which I didn't really like, as I have stumbled across several channels I have ended up subscribing to from previous YouTube suggestions. It just isn't worth trying to filter it the slop.
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How about the other hundred channels ?
The question is why didn’t they do it sooner? Like 15 years ago!? YouTube is 99% crap and AI videos are just making it much worse.
I never search for trailers on there - most are fake.
The question is why didn’t they do it sooner? Like 15 years ago!? YouTube is 99% crap and AI videos are just making it much worse.
I never search for trailers on there - most are fake.
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I recommend liberal use of "don't recommend this channel." I do still see see some garbage, but it's mostly either ones I already watch or relevant related stuff. though it still tends to kinda get locked into loops. even within a channel, if they post on different topics or in different formats, if you watch a few of one type, you won't ever see any of the others unless you you go look at their profile.
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Unfortunately I do most of my YouTube watching in my TV through a Roku device, and the YouTube Roku app doesn't have that option.
Nice to know it largely works, though.
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Actually Google would've said a Big Yes if they just added "parody" etc. to video titles but the companies were just too greedy to comply. SEO is helluva drug.
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Sometimes I am just letting the algorithm do its thing and listen to youtube while walking somewhere on headphones, usually longer documentary-style videos. It is quite crazy that a minute into any video, you can figure out any conversation is AI-generated.
First of all, the audio quality is disturbingly clean. There's no low-level background noise, no hisses on Ss, no crackings of chairs, no audio level difference between participants and the hermetic cleanliness of all is very weird.
Also the conversation flows so artificially... it's like one of the participants is always ready and expecting the other to interrupt. So then I take my device out of my pocket, check what video is going on and, voila, AI.
It's just not good.
First of all, the audio quality is disturbingly clean. There's no low-level background noise, no hisses on Ss, no crackings of chairs, no audio level difference between participants and the hermetic cleanliness of all is very weird.
Also the conversation flows so artificially... it's like one of the participants is always ready and expecting the other to interrupt. So then I take my device out of my pocket, check what video is going on and, voila, AI.
It's just not good.
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Derp Derpus
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There are two music channels doing AI fake Howlin'Wolf and Muddy Waters material. I know the family members who control their estates and the legal action against the fakes using their names has already begun. I emailed them the YouTube links and they were horrified at the garbage attached to the names of their late fathers.
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Obviously. The channels removed the parady warnings for a reason. They must make more money when misinforming
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RickRoyLeonPrisZhoraRacha
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How about the AI-generated WW1 and WW2 content that is nothing more than a scripted AI voice over (oh the pronunciation errors!), and reuse of public domain and other footage to create click ad view revenue. Youtube really needs people, no algorithms that clearly are gamed, to screen and ban.
AI Slop is now creating history channels...
AI Slop is now creating history channels...
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Tens of millions voted for an obese sexual predator in the hopes of getting rich with crypto and because short videos were telling them America was going to waste. Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses.
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The gentlemen at Red Letter Media recently released an enlightening discussion about AI Slop:
View: https://youtu.be/IPitD1eYLiM?si=XCdiB8NP4HnHeiJy
View: https://youtu.be/IPitD1eYLiM?si=XCdiB8NP4HnHeiJy
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My 11 year old son is super gullible. He tends to find these videos when we let him on YouTube, and then argue with his siblings about whether or not these projects are real. It is EXHAUSTING having to jump in and yet again point out that the page these trailers is from is not in anyway affiliated with the studios that would be putting these out if it were real.
So I, for one, am VERY fucking happy these sites are gone. Now get rid of the rest of the AI slop on the platform and I'll be even happier.
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I've gotten to the point that I won't even trust established channels that use AI generated thumbnails as a substitute for plain graphic design.
News for some, that includes channels like Veritasium.
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I personally don't watch movie trailers, but its not hard to figure out why other people do: for most, its their first exposure to an upcoming movie release, and within a few minutes, it can answer a couple of questions someone might have, like 'who is in this movie', 'what is it about', 'what is the genre/tone of the movie' and most importantly 'does this look like something I'd want to spend money to watch'.
That doesn't mean that trailers aren't frequently misleading and often deliberately give viewers the wrong first impression of a movie to make the movie look better than it actually is. But for most, its a convenient shorthand way of determining what upcoming movies look interesting enough to watch, and for fans of different series or genres or actors/directors/etc., it gives hints about what they could see in the movie.
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Can they now also get rid of the fake AI commercials in YouTube for "Getting Swole" or "Talk to a sexy-vamp-girl-who-is-totally-legal" or those stupid "Look-how-awesome-3D-this-shirt/sweater-is!"
I'm almost willing to give them my $5 just to save on eye bleach.
I'm almost willing to give them my $5 just to save on eye bleach.
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I'd be happy just being able to report channels without having to jump through 400 hoops. The are so many channels that are just stealth links to porn sites with porn in the profile pics. Completely against the TOS but no easy way to report them.
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Well that may explain why I saw that conversation and didn't blink at least, cheers!
Feel like it just furthers the mess of it all, in that it can make some things that do exist seem fake by virtue of being fake representatives of that real thing. Delightful.
I did enjoy this one as well, but Mike's (acknowledged) ignorance of how these work doesn't serve him too well in hypothesizing here. Not his area and he knows it, though!
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Probably a combination. Because humans are conditioned these days to subscribe to everything. In fact, they are TOLD to like and subscribe, so they do. It doesn't hurt that it's simple to do, they are always logged into their accounts, and FOMO.
I resist all of that. I only log into my google account if I have to, and then I log out of it. I have a handful of youtube channels I check up on, I just bookmark them. I subscribe to ZERO channels. I do this for 2 reasons: I am old, and I value my privacy. Same reason I am not on social media. There really is no MO, and I have no FO it.
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How else can Apple money that they can then funnel to help build the Trump Ballroom.
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I am pretty much the same. If I'm watching a video that interests me and somewhere in the video there is the "like and subscribe!" shilling I immediately downvote the video and 9 times out of 10 I'll stop watching it. Also my likelihood of watching another video on that channel is now just a couple marks above zero.
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I've been suckered I'll bet. Last night I was watching and discussing with friends a movie trailer that I now realize could be completely fake -- a Dick Dastardly and Muttley movie with Jim Carey and other A-list stars. Gee, why haven't I heard about this?
Even more annoying, I keep getting shown YouTube ads for a senior companionship robot puppy that has to be a complete scam -- the goddam thing is shown licking people's faces. And also, "the government is about to ban this product" so hurry and buy it now!
Even more annoying, I keep getting shown YouTube ads for a senior companionship robot puppy that has to be a complete scam -- the goddam thing is shown licking people's faces. And also, "the government is about to ban this product" so hurry and buy it now!
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I hate fake trailers too, but I also rarely see them because I always look at what account posts them. I simply don’t watch trailers unless it’s from a known studio or distributor.
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Never mind the AI slop aspect, it's awful searching YT for anything movie related as you get fake trailers for real films, fake trailers for fake films etc.
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Malcolm in the Middle is getting a revival. I suppose that is just another example of how crappy these channels were since they called it a reboot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_in_the_Middle:_Life's_Still_Unfair
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I mean ... it's basically fanfic. Instead of being pages to read, it's bitesized into a 2 minutes short ... which is exactly the preferred format of today's youth. So yeah, I can absolutely see a bunch of kids/teens/young adults enjoying these.
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You absolutely can in the Roku app.
Push and hold the play button on the selected video, and it'll bring up a list of options that include Do Not Recommend Channel.
Some places this won't work, like in the News feed.
You can't tell it to stop recommending a news channel while in the news feed, but in Recommendations, any news channel that shows up there you can get rid of.
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As far as I'm concerned Google has done a great thing here. Youtube is absolutely drowning in low quality, low effort slop AI generated or not and their recommendation engine delights in shoving it in your face every single chance it gets. Need a ton more Google cleanups of Youtube like this one.
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I thought you were referring to a fake Wacky Races movie trailer I saw recently, but I just noticed they have crapped out a Dastardly & Muttley variant. I haven't watched the new one (nor do I intend to), but The Wacky Races one was pretty obvious due to the number of A-list stars and the fact that there were basically two types of shots used in the "trailer: "racing" scenes with the obviously CG cars modeled too closely to the cartoon originals to be even slightly believable, and the various celebrity cast members staring at the camera with a static, dead-eyed look.
I couldn't find a decent still image to share and I don't intend to give the video more views by linking to it - particularly because so many channels have posted it that it's hard to determine which is the "original". I think I know which one it is, and to be fair that channel makes it clear in the description that it's a "concept" trailer and fake. At least half of the other uploads seem to present it as a real trailer.
I did get Google's search engine AI slop machine to tell me who some of the alleged cast is supposed to be:
- Jim Carrey as Dick Dastardly
- Emma Stone as Penelope Pitstop
- John Cena as Sergeant Blast
- Adrien Brody as Big Gruesome
- Luke Wilson as Clyde
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Sort of on topic.... Has anyone come across the channel "Artificial Cheese"? I am very surprised that Disney hasn't forced YouTube to ban it yet. The videos are the "vlog" diary of an Imperial Stormtrooper who keeps getting assigned to places like Endor and Tattooine. The video is AI-generated, often hilariously so. But I'm almost certain that the scripts are written by a human, probably one who's served in the infantry, because the snarky soldier humor seems spot-on. It may be the best, and is definitely the funniest, Star Wars being produced right now. That is a big part of why I expected it to be killed by LucasFilm / Disney months ago.
That's a use of AI that I don't mind. There's actual creative input from a human and it's enabling someone to create short films that he'd never get the funding (or permission) to do with real actors, costumes, and CGI effects.
All the fake trailers, AI-scripted and -narrated history videos, and AI faked news videos, on the other hand, need to die in a large dumpster fire.
That's a use of AI that I don't mind. There's actual creative input from a human and it's enabling someone to create short films that he'd never get the funding (or permission) to do with real actors, costumes, and CGI effects.
All the fake trailers, AI-scripted and -narrated history videos, and AI faked news videos, on the other hand, need to die in a large dumpster fire.
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