Some time ago YouTube officially embraced the raise of AI-generated videos. Their official stance was that AI allows people to express themselves and their ideas in video form, something that was previously exclusive only to people with the time, equipment, talent and knowledge on how to create such videos (often a very arduous process that can take days or even weeks of intense work). AI has opened up this possibility for everybody, so anybody can put their ideas and expression in video form without it being exclusive to the few.
Yet, to the surprise of nobody, that's not how the vast, vast majority of people are using AI-generated videos. Completely unsurprisingly, well over 90% of all AI-generated videos I have seen on YouTube has been created for the purpose of deception. Fake stories, fake events, fake outrage, trying to be passed as real just for the clicks, with the video authors going their way to try to hide that it's an AI-generated video, a complete fabrication.
Only a complete moron didn't see in advance this obvious outcome.
When over 90% of AI-generated videos are used for deceiving the viewer, to try to make the viewer believe that the video is depicting actual events, hiding the fact that it's a complete fabrication and that the footage isn't real, just for the clicks, something is very wrong.
Seriously, YouTube needs to reverse their stance, and they need to do it soon, or else their platform will be completely ruined when people start flooding it with deceptive AI-generated slop, where you can't trust almost any video to be real (even though it purports to be), where you can't trust anything you see, and where the content is just completely sloppy lazy artificially created content generated in five minutes, most often for the purpose of clickbait and deception.
It would be one thing if a video is clearly a work of fiction, like depicting a fantasy story or something. It's quite different when most of these videos are trying to pass as real footage taken in real life showing real events, for the explicit purpose of deceiving the viewers.
At the absolute minimum YouTube needs to implement a rule that all AI-generated content just be clearly disclosed and shown (especially in the "Shorts" category, where most info about the video that's not in the video itself is completely hidden by default.) YouTube needs to start showing a symbol that clearly classifies the video as partially or fully AI-generated, and it needs to be strict about it, issuing warnings and bans to people who fail to disclose how the video was created.
If not, their platform will be completely ruined by an absolute flood of deceptive AI-slop.
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