Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube

3 years ago by catculation to c/technology

Get-rich-quick hustlers say it’s a great time to push AI-generated kids videos on YouTube. WIRED found some channels targeting children that appear to be already embracing the technology.

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Ellvix 68 points 3 years ago

"Your kid may already be..." is a pretty standard fear mongering start, right?

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ABCDE 17 points 3 years ago

Yes, although it's true, and most likely: certainly.

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Kolanaki 66 points 3 years ago

That'd be pretty wild since I don't have a kid yet.

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FaceDeer 39 points 3 years ago

Your kid is also AI-generated, in that case.

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Kolanaki 24 points 3 years ago

Fuck. Now I have to AI generate child support payments 😩

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RootBeerGuy 17 points 3 years ago

Have an AI kid with your AI girlfriend so you can chip in on AI family issues.

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Plopp 9 points 3 years ago

...that you know of.

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tsonfeir 1 point 3 years ago

Assuming they’re male 😳

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Fal 1 point 3 years ago

Not true. It happened in this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfxwzPddXWc

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PipedLinkBot 1 point 3 years ago

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Kinglink 41 points 3 years ago

Yeah but when am I going to be able to watch AI-Generated Videos on Pornhub. (That I get to choose the content of).

Honestly I'm so over hearing about AI. It's either "Look at this average thing that AI has done (after giving X amount of attempts we won't tell you about)." or "Look at this average thing that AI has done (after giving X amount of attempts we won't tell you about) Isn't it scary?"

OH AI is wrong? Oh AI is doing something better than humans? Oh people might use AI versus doing nothing? Oh AI might replace cheap labor (fiver jobs)... AI will kill you, AI will heal you, AI has transcended humanity... AI has doomed us all.

It's all fucking clickbait at this point and I'm just already so fucking tired of hearing about it because none of it has value.

But umm.. that Pornhub video thing... let me know when that comes out.

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z3rOR0ne 1 point 3 years ago

Lol. This post is a quality romp. Thanks.

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Eggyhead 40 points 3 years ago

Your boomer parents as well, most likely. It is getting back into election season again.

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PerogiBoi 3 points 3 years ago

My whole family keep reposting these weird pics of Jesus in mud saving flight attendants with the captions “amen”.

It’s all over the place.

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Cruxifux 26 points 3 years ago

Get ready for another round of those weird murder spider man and Elsa videos for kids on YouTube, this time created by our robot overlords!

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STOMPYI 2 points 3 years ago

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Faceman2K23 17 points 3 years ago

Yea no shit It's also a significant chunk of regular youtube now too

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ininewcrow 14 points 3 years ago

Every day the number of AI generated content in YouTube just gets more and more. It's just people who figured out how to use the latest AI services, mashing it together with AI generated scripts, mashed together with AI generated voices and pumped out continuously every day. Some are good but most are just regurgitated content that sound great but don't offer good information or outright just give you misinformation or just random nonsense.

It's freaky because the number of these types of videos just keep increasing every day.

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Kinglink -2 points 3 years ago

It's the same as fiver generated scripts, and the same as every other technology. We learn how to deal with it... or maybe we stop watching so much youtube, or look for authentic channels...

Honestly Youtube in general becomes a sesspool of fads... until those fads wear off.

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iopq 7 points 3 years ago

If there was only a way for users to let other users know whether the content is of low quality...

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Kinglink 8 points 3 years ago

I mean ultimately the biggest problem isn't even voting or anything. It's that Youtube doesn't care about giving you "quality" it cares about keeping you on the platform so it can keep feeding you ads. At the end of the day, as long as you keep watching Youtube is happy.

This is similar to the reason I stopped reading Quora posts because they're some of the most awful pieces of freelance writing that has nothing to do with "information transferring" and everything to do with "keeping you reading". Feels like such a weird site.

But ultimately the trick is you have to break the cycle of watching or staying on Youtube when you get bad content... at that point then Youtube has to change so you keep coming back to watch quality recommendations instead of just "what's popular"

Personally I mostly only will click on people I'm already subscribed to, because so much is just about "Watch time", and like I said above, I only really value "information transfer".

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PoliticallyIncorrect 1 point 3 years ago

"AI"-generated..

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ABCDE -1 points 3 years ago

This has been a thing for years.

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viking -9 points 3 years ago

A good AI beats a bad youtuber. And there are plenty of the latter around.