Dramatic uptick in WWII aviation related AI slop videos on youtube?

[MiTasol]

This is not unique to aviation: you see it with all kinds of topics on YouTube, all eras of history, science, etc. Actually, the science animation channel Kurzgesagt just recently made a video about this called AI Slop is Destroying the Internet.

It is unfortunately a product of our time.

Another thing I see a lot, more or less daily, on history boards on social media (especially Facebook) is someone using AI to "fact-find" history. AI is terrible when it comes to even rudimentary historical research and I would not recommend using it for historical research outside of testing purposes, or without heavy manual fact-checking of the results. Personally I more or less use AI only for complex calculations.

I avoid AI for everything. It is learning to be better but there is so much crap produced by it that I do not trust it for anything because, short of verifying its output with old fashioned methods, you cannot trust anything it produces.

I have tried it for correcting pages that have been photographed without being held flat. The output is infinitely worse than the original.

 

[SaparotRob]

I've seen at least 2 YT history channels that have prominent "No AI" emblems. Promising.

 

[SaparotRob]

The very few sites I have been to that have obviously AI crap have the dislike button disabled so if I go to a site where the first image is suspect I just click on dislike. If the dislike is not registered then I go elsewhere.

Don't click the "dislike". It counts the same as a "like" as far as The Algorithm cares, I think. Don't watch it at all.

 

[MiTasol]

As soon as the site is opened it registers as you viewed it but likes do not increase when clicking dislike - I check each time.

 

[GrauGeist]

I haven't checked yet, but I understamd that YT now has an option to report "synthetic content" if the video is mislabeled.

 

[tyrodtom]

A new wrinkle is animated AI, they take a real picture and then AI animates motion. Errors usually show up at once in the background, or sometimes you can see the motion they show is meaningless. Like a Marine looking at the wing guns ammo boxes on a Corsair, he's just moving his arms around, doing nothing. Most viewers have no idea what he should be doing. So for the site producer that's good enough.

 

[OldGeezer]

Don't click the "dislike". It counts the same as a "like" as far as The Algorithm cares, I think. Don't watch it at all.

I think you're right as far as monetization goes. "Unlike" as I understand it is to help them fine-tune the videos they recommend to you for future viewing.

 

[tyrodtom]

If you write a comment, even if it's extremely critical, it is counted as participation, and that's how the site gets it's money.
U-tube is being turned into a site for sheer nonsense, fiction, posing as truth.
I don't see a realistic way to stop it, other than when see it, is post a thumbs down, and post nothing, just move on to the next one.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

If you write a comment, even if it's extremely critical, it is counted as participation, and that's how the site gets it's money.
U-tube is being turned into a site for sheer nonsense, fiction, posing as truth.
I don't see a realistic way to stop it, other than when see it, is post a thumbs down, and post nothing, just move on to the next one.

As you say, even negative response is taken by the algorithm to be viewership. Don't respond to these at all. As I pointed out above, the hyperbolic titles ("the Japanese were amazed", "the Germans were destroyed by ..." etc) for these videos give away the AI sourcing for these videos. If something in the title has this exaggerated thing, avoid it.

Even if it is not not AI (which in my experience it usually is after all), you will teach humans to stop using stupid titles for their vids. Just don't click on it, and hit the dots and select "do not recommend". The only way to fight this is to deview it.

 

[GrauGeist]

It appears that Google/YouTube is working on it:
YouTube is planning to crack down on AI-generated garbage