Am I the only one who hates AI youtube videos?

The Coffee Shop
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There seems to be more and more AI youtube videos, and that is a negative as far as I’m concerned.

The ones that I’ve identified appear to be using stock video footage or even photos, and you never see the “person” who hosts it.

Anyone else dislike them?

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For hotel/ resort reviews I find them very fucking annoying especially when they can’t pronounce the name correctly

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Not envisaging the ones you speak of. I find all the initial ads more irritating. That old white male doc seems to be suspiciously knowledgable about a lot of things and his expression barely changes.

I have a general dislike for all AI

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I have a difficult time arguing against this, I have to admit

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There’s way too much AI slop out there. Some content creators were putting out shorts and discovering that YouTube was using AI on their videos to smooth or tweak without their knowledge. You’d see real videos but they had that AI look to them.

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Pretty sure this is one, though it has a human figure. My wife was watching it for the gardening information last night. I clicked on several of his videos to compare, and he’s wearing the same white shirt, with the same type of intro.

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This is not an AI video. But it is a video about the impact of AI data centers in the usa. And, to put it mildly, it ain’t good. Well, except that in small town america, the pushback to these monsters is uniting people:

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AI slop is a booming rent seeking side hustle now with the advent of opencaw. Millions of people around the world having AI just create social media content and pushing it out there, vying for the clicks. Youtube, Insta, ticktock, twitter, etc… I think almost all instagram vids are AI these days, i dont mean enhanced imaging to make stuff look better, i mean just fabricated content added, fake. Same to ticktoc.

There is massive money to be made in just pushing “content” out there, and now AI agents can do it 24/7 and do it pretty well.

Not only creating “new” content, but just scraping for other videos/clips that are viral and repackaging and reusing, so its massive propigation of same old content over and over again.

Not sure what the end point here is, but there are a lot of Rent Seekers out there using AI to just slop the world with content. You see proliferation of AI generated apps on Play station/Apple now also. All crap, hoping to capture some $$ for intital signups for a month or two.

At some point, most of us are just going to stop paying attention at any social media. None of us really want to watch “AI” content. Eventually most will start ignoring. Maybe there’s a new niche or “badge” of content that is not AI that content can be vetted and flagged as “real” that people can then filter to in their content, not sure.

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I agree and had similar thoughts. Hopefully Youtube will offer some way to filter out AI videos.

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I don’t even like the videos using real footage/pictures that they have AI do the voiceover. It just annoys me. Read the damn script and give some human quality to it.

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If it doesn’t already exist someone needs to develop an app or plug-in or OS that filters out all AI content. Social media has been ruined by it. Cat videos aren’t funny if they aren’t real.

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A video released by some relatively obscure (to me anyway) country artist detailed how her music was converted to video by some AI company, then that company began creating music using her AI-cloned voice and she has absolutely no control over it and few resources to fight it. I’m sure she’s one of many and it’s only going to get worse as money and power and technology concentrate in the hands of the technokleptocrats.

AI is already the worst thing to happen to human society and it’s only just beginning. There’s no way this ends well for future generations and we’re basically doing nothing to prevent it even though no one really asked for it.

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Stayed with the in-laws last week. My FIL is at that point in life where he spends most of his time just watching TV. Instead of Fox News, he spends most of his time letting YouTube decide what to show him. At one point he watched an AI generated action flick about the end of the world (link below). It was really bad, but better than watching Fox News.

I think we are in the Napster phase of AI generated content. Techies just stealing from creatives. I think we will get past this at some point, but the new normal won’t be just going back to the past. We are going to be listening to music on CDs again.

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No doubt they will charge for this as a premium service if they do.

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I think China is ahead of us here on this, pretty sure they made it a law and illegal to publish any content that is altered or AI generated without labeling it such..”AI”. Not sure how they enforce it and if they do.

But I do think ultimately, we has humans, need to have this legislation and “truth in communication” laws to clearly label anything that is AI touched imagery or generated word content. It needs to be stamped AI on it. I k now that would be impossible to do and enforce, but i can dream. I think for video/picture content it maybe can be enforced, but not written word. And of course where do you draw the line in the grey area of AI enanced/tweaked vs bottoms up AI generated.

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i have elderly parents that spend a lot of time online consuming content, and it has been an ongoing battle with them just not understanding that much of what they take for real is just fake. THey send me stuff all the time, and i’m like…mom, that is not real, even a little. It is really frustrating for them, I know when I call them out on it.

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I asked Chatgpt if the video in the link was AI.

I can’t open links directly. I can help you determine if that YouTube video was AI-generated — here are quick checks and methods you can use; if you paste the video title, description, channel name, or a short clip/transcript/timestamp, I can give a more specific read:

  1. Check the video details
  • Description/credits: look for “AI”, “generated with”, or tool names (Synthesia, D-ID, ElevenLabs, Midjourney, Runway, etc.).
  • Channel history: brand-new channel with only AI-style content is suspicious.
  1. Visual signs
  • Faces: unnatural blinking, inconsistent eye gaze, asymmetric facial movements, floating artifacts around hair/ears or hands.
  • Lip-sync: tiny desync or repeated micro-movements not matching speech prosody.
  • Background: repeating textures, warping edges, mismatched lighting or hands/objects that deform.
  • Frame-level glitches: flicker, sudden pixel blending, inconsistent reflections.
  1. Audio signs
  • Robotic or overly smooth prosody, perfect clarity without breaths/noise.
  • Repeated phrases, unnatural emphasis, or slight “metallic” timbre.
  • Check for unnatural punctuation pauses or identical intonation across different sentences.
  1. Metadata & technical checks
  • Right-click > “Stats for nerds” for codec/bitrate — some AI renders use consumer encoders with odd framerates/bitrates.
  • Download a short clip and inspect frames: repeated frames or micro-tiling often indicate synthetic generation.
  1. Reverse/forensic checks
  • Reverse image search a clear video frame (Google/ TinEye) to see if the face or scene appears elsewhere.
  • Run frames through deepfake-detection tools (e.g., Microsoft Video Authenticator alternatives, or online deepfake detectors) — results aren’t definitive but helpful.
  1. Community signals
  • Comments: viewers often call out AI usage; creator replies may confirm.
  • Other uploads: compare with other videos from the same creator for consistency in face/voice.
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I clicked on the link’s description and found this.

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When I clicked on the Learn More link, it

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15447836?hl=en

Understanding ‘How this content was made’ disclosures on YouTube

While watching YouTube, you might find information about how content was made. This information, found in the video player or description, can offer insight into the content’s origin and whether it has been meaningfully altered. The “How this content was made” section in the expanded video description provides further details.

Disclosure types

‘Altered or synthetic content’: This indicates that a video contains content that has been meaningfully altered or synthetically generated. There are several ways that this information ends up in the ‘How this content was made’ section of the expanded description of a video.

You should expect to see this disclosure when:

  1. The creator manually discloses the use of ‘altered or synthetic’ content in the YouTube Studio workflow. When content is undisclosed, in some cases, YouTube may take action to reduce the risk of harm to viewers by proactively applying a label that creators will not have the option to remove. Learn more about our "altered or synthetic content" disclosures.
  2. The creator uses YouTube’s generative AI tools (e.g., DreamScreen).
  3. The content contains valid Content Credentials data indicating the entire video is made with AI. Learn more about Content Credentials (C2PA).

YouTube will carry forward disclosures from tools and creators available with secure Content Credentials (C2PA) 2.1 or higher that indicate the entire video was made with AI. This may include a label on the video player itself, or language in the detailed description.

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They scrape the internet for footage and other reviews and mash it up…super fucking annoying