I watch a lot of STEAM videos on YouTube. In the past I loved supporting new creators but some time last year I stopped trying new channels that don’t have human presenter, there’s just so much slop. Now I’ve noticed that there are channels where even the presenter is AI. I can spot a few tells (presenter is never on screen for very long, voice pacing doesn’t vary, no ums and ahs, etc) but it’s getting harder and I wish I knew more clues.
One thing that seems to help is checking the channel history (does the presenter age, have they only started making content very recently etc)
Can someone recommend a good, recent guide to spotting AI videos?
AI generated anything has been easy for me to identify so far.
Primarily there is nothing “organic” in the generations. Nothing in the texts, nothing in the images, nothing in the videos.
Unfortunately, I can’t summarize it in a lemmy post, or a Wikipedia article, or maybe even a textbook.
Essentially, every generation yields something that is not real that triggers in my mind “wait, this isn’t real.”
Take the voice synthesis LLMs like Gemini. The voice is constantly changing throughout the response. In images, something is usually shaped off, or the lighting is incorrect, or something that should be comepletely parellel isn’t. There’s too much to describe what I’ve noticed but there’s always something.
Video is even easier - just like how the voice changes throughout the response, the videos “morph” throughout the frames. Sometimes its very obvious, sometimes its more subtle.
Sometimes I wonder if its because my autistic brain is so bad at filtering sensory input that I just catch ALL that stuff.
How do you know things you don’t clock as AI aren’t AI?
That would mean that things I don’t clock as AI are equivalent to things I don’t care about being AI.
But that’s pretty simple to me - I don’t consume most media that’s culturally popular.
I don’t watch things on youtube unless its a clip from a movie/tv show, or a music video, or cartoon, or its a live thing (one could argue AI can be presented live, but AI doesn’t tend to introduce the minor mistakes in language or coughs or pauses or other organic non-communicative behaviors). News comes from a few reputable sources (but that list is ever dwindling).
I ignore anything that isn’t a post or shared picture by friends on Facebook or Instagram, so you can imagine how much I use them.
I do read a lot of Wikipedia, and that scares me that I might not be able to clock it.