Brilliant and very watchable video on how AI-generated channels are destroying YouTube. My thanks to marble falls

[highplainsdem]

for sending this to me. The YT channel this is on was co-founded by James Pumphrey, an actor and influencer formerly with Donut Media - https://www.theautopian.com/james-pumphrey-is-out-at-donut-media-as-private-equity-continues-to-scare-off-talent/ - who ran across some of the same serious problems caused by generative AI that I've been warning about here, and who was able to get nearly 3/4 of a million views on YT for his warning, Fake Car Channels Are Ruining Youtube.

I'm glad he touched on other harm done by genAI as well, but the damage being done to YouTube can't be overemphasized. And all the AI slop on YouTube, besides wasting people's time and taking views away from real people posting worthwhile videos, can also be doing a lot of harm with misinformation and disinformation. This garbage should not be allowed to pollute the internet, but AI companies including those that own platforms are trying to dominate the online world.

[marble falls]

1. "AI-generated channels are destroying YouTube. thanks to marble falls" That's the way dyslexia saw it four times ...

... of course I was laughing almost to tears on the three repeats.

[highplainsdem]

4. LOL (and oh noes) - but I was clearly (I thought) thanking you for the brilliant and very watchable video, and I have

no way of knowing how that might be read by anyone who's dyslexic.

I just wanted to credit you for the find, and for sending it to me.

[marble falls]

7. Either way it's funny, as well as an honor to be recognized. Thankyou! Dyslexia has given me so many laughs in my ...

... life. Everything looks right and wrong at the same time. It's made me brave and embarrassed me.

[highplainsdem]

11. You're managing better than I probably could have. And I wanted to give you recognition for finding

what I think is probably the most entertaining video on the harm done by generative AI that I've ever seen. I've posted a lot of videos about genAI here, like the one from British musician Fil Henley that I posted in Music Appreciation this morning

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034146987

which I hope people will watch. And I've copied a lot of articles and social media posts about AI here, and some of those were very entertaining. But I'd never seen anything that gave such an entertaining and funny overview of how harmful AI slop - genAI content - really is.

[mahina]

5. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

❤️

[John1956PA]

2. Fake classical music, mostly from China I believe, is spoiling the span of YouTube files offering classical music audio.

[marble falls]

8. It's always on the tip of recognition. Its almost soporific.

[highplainsdem]

12. Could you link to one of the YT channels posting the fake classical music? When I searched just now

for classical music on YT, what I saw first were videos that named famous composers, though many were recent videos made with AI art and video generators. Then when I looked at one, the YT recommendations beside it included this

https://youtube.com/@TranquilBirdMelodies

which is not bird song, but hundreds of videos with AI music and AI animation of birds (all with umbrellas) posted in the last 9 months.

[John1956PA]

15. Here is a link to a YouTube file which I believe constitutes AI-generated "music."

&list=RDA1rQwFQ7yZw&start_radio=1

The introductory verbiage implies the audio consists of recordings of orchestral performances of works by beloved composers of centuries ago. To me, the audio (supposedly strings) sounds more like the interior of a bees' nest. It is repetitive and very fast paced.

If you click the "Transcript" button on the YouTube page, you will find listings presented in some tonal language such a Chinese.

I think the YouTube file is designed to generate clicks for monetary and some other nefarious purposes.

[highplainsdem]

17. Thanks! It really doesn't sound right. Definitely too fast. And I noticed that they misspelled

memory as well.

I just posted a thread about more AI slop that will be flooding YouTube soon: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220425726

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Vivisecting others' old videos and repackaging them was already ruining YouTube

Sometimes the titles don't match the content. Tired of shorts. It's all about clicks. 1000 clicks means a dime. Most prolific YTbers can make $60,000 a month.

But then I hate the cliquish Facebook, and the sluggish Linked In. Some media personalities populate more than a dozen apps. Don't want to miss a click.

I think the whole thing collapses of its own weight. I literally cannot absorb any more information. My week is drowning in webinars

[marble falls]

10. That's the problem with needing content and depending on third parties to deliver it. Like heroin addiction actually.

[highplainsdem]

13. AI is doing more damage to YouTube faster, though. And both Facebook and LinkedIn are drowning

in AI slop, with people on those platforms pushed to use AI. Didn't really surprise me with Facebook, but did with LinkedIn. Unfortunately they also wanted to generate more and more content so they encouraged people to use text generators to write.

[SheltieLover]

6. Kick

[highplainsdem]

14. Thanks!

[SheltieLover]

22. Yw!

[Johnny2X2X]

9. I have been thinking about this a lot lately

Perhaps the internet is going to become totally useless for most things soon. I mean, you'll still be able to shop on it, find directions, read about a place you are going, but for things like news, current events, and even facts on science and medicine, it is kind of in a decaying spiral that will be sending people elsewhere soon.

Traditional media needs to reinvent itself to fill the gap we're about to see.

[highplainsdem]

18. There's still so much good stuff on YouTube that I'd hate to lose it completely. But I've reached the

point where for a lot of things I prefer to see videos that were uploaded before genAI was available.

We definitely could use an option to weed out all AI-generated videos.

[FemDemERA]

16. Thank you for sharing this.

I don’t watch a lot of YouTube videos but this was well worth the time!

[highplainsdem]

19. You're very welcome! Thanks for the reply!

[bluboid]

20. wow! absolutely brilliant!

Thank you for posting this for the world to see - & thank you to the video creators. brilliant!

[canetoad]

21. I'll watch the video later on

But yeah, I see those channels and they are repulsive. From the tacky mass produced pictures to the fake likes and comments. Best I can do is click on "Don't recomment this channel", hoping that someone gets the message.

One example of fake 'classical' music is the rise of historical photos presented as stills and compiled into a video. As a backing track there is a sort of free-form piano music; vaguely classical in style but not any known piece. It's really raucous and annoying.

[WestMichRad]

23. AI isn't just destroying YouTube.

It’s polluting the internet with garbage, as they point out in this video. There’s always been misinformation and disinformation out there, but there will come the time when it’s very difficult for intelligent people to distinguish between accurate information and bullshit.

I’m heeding one of his points of advice: get off the internet (as much as practicable). It’s actually quite remarkable that I even found this thread.
Bye bye.