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YouTube Is Making It Easier to Spot AI-Generated Videos (lifehacker.com)
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[–] 17 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

You mean the YouTube that dumps out AI summaries of the videos you're on their platform specifically to watch directly? That YouTube?

Surely they aren't a company composed of two-faced slimeballs like their parent. That would be unheard of.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Obligatory "fuck AI," however I've reluctantly found that the AI summaries can be helpful on occasion, such as when deciding if a video with a clickbaity title is actually worth watching, or when I'm on YouTube looking for a solution to a problem (in which case the summary can sometimes get me the content way faster than watching the video). So of all the dumb shit YouTube has done to their platform in recent years, I'd argue the AI summaries fall on the "actually not that bad" end of the spectrum.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    That's very fair, it's definitely in the vein of what LLMs are (theoretically) meant for, i.e. summarization and language parsing/analysis. I find that LLMs work pretty well for translation too. It's just a shame that executives have run it to the ground like they usually do. And the people poisoning us are the same ones treating it in this case.

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