YouTube Channels -- AI?

[Howard Gibson]

There are some very interesting and well researched channels on WWII aircraft on YouTube. WW2 Archives is not one of them. These people are not even doing research! Is this AI?

I am all for free speech, but YouTube needs to do some quality control. This is disgusting. I suppose that WWII aircraft really don't matter in the overall scheme of things, but are people doing similar quality work on other topics that are of immediate importance?

 

[Howard Gibson]

Here is what I was actually looking for...

How One Engineer's "Ridiculous" Wing Tape Made Hurricanes Dodge Bullets They Couldn't See

This is YouTube channel WWII Deep Dive. Could you even do this with AI?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

AI slop is all over your recommendations if you watch WWII vids. There's one producer particularly who is guilty. If you read a title that says "The Germans were stunned when ..." or "The P-38 surprised everyone with" ... or other extravagant use of superlatives, you can bet that it's AI bullshit. Mouse over the thumbnail, right-click, scroll down to "do not recommend again", and then lather, rinse, and repeat.

When anyone tells you to "smash that 'like' button", you know you're listening to crap.

There's other clues. Perfect voices but sometimes numbers are "one-eight-seven" and a minute later in the vid "one-eighty-seven", sometimes a hard vowel is soft or a soft vowel hard. Unchanging tone. Irregular pronunciations.

But really, if the title is looking like hot trash, like you've never heard this before EVER, skip it, because not only have you probably heard it, you probably already know it's full of shit. Don't give it a single click.

 

[z42]

Yeah, we had a discussion about WWII aviation AI slop videos on youtube recently at Dramatic uptick in WWII aviation related AI slop videos on youtube? . Somebody (or somebodies) have figured out a business model of generating endless crap very quickly and cheaply with AI and flooding youtube with it.

Please do NOT share links to these videos. Do NOT write comments in youtube how crap they are. This just gives them engagement and ad revenue. Like Thumpalumpacus writes above, just flag them as "do not recommend again" to at least get them out of your view. Which doesn't help that long, as part of this business model seems to be to continually create new channels that the youtube algorithm then recommends to people, but hopefully at least it's slightly better than nothing.

And yes, if you've spent some time looking at actual pictures of WWII aircraft (which I guess most of us in this forum have?) you can usually relatively quickly notice something off in these AI generated pictures. Again, do not engage with these channels, just mark them as "do not recommend again".

 

[yulzari]

Yeah, we had a discussion about WWII aviation AI slop videos on youtube recently at Dramatic uptick in WWII aviation related AI slop videos on youtube? . Somebody (or somebodies) have figured out a business model of generating endless crap very quickly and cheaply with AI and flooding youtube with it.

Please do NOT share links to these videos. Do NOT write comments in youtube how crap they are. This just gives them engagement and ad revenue. Like Thumpalumpacus writes above, just flag them as "do not recommend again" to at least get them out of your view. Which doesn't help that long, as part of this business model seems to be to continually create new channels that the youtube algorithm then recommends to people, but hopefully at least it's slightly better than nothing.

And yes, if you've spent some time looking at actual pictures of WWII aircraft (which I guess most of us in this forum have?) you can usually relatively quickly notice something off in these AI generated pictures. Again, do not engage with these channels, just mark them as "do not recommend again".

Yes. The mistakes are deliberate baiting you to comment on how wrong they are. Bingo, they see lots of comments and their ad revenues go up. Do not feed the trolls.

 

[GrauGeist]

It's not just YT, unfortunately - quite a few social media platforms have been inundated with AI garbage that ranges from current affairs to ancient history.

What disturbs me, is that people who don't know better, are falling for this bullsh!t.

Case in point:
recently, a young coworker came up and said "hey, I just saw a vid on FB about how the Nazis had a rocket fighter that was destroying our bombers!
Here, check it out" and proceeded to pull it on his phone.

I said "oh f**k no, stop. That's AI bullsh!t, the Me163 never was operational enough to have an effect on Allied bombing...it was a dead end."

His reply?

"You're wrong. Maybe watch the video and learn!"

My take away is that the younger generation, who were raised in a video rich environment, will have trouble with determining what is true and what is false.

 

[smutny]

When these pop up in my feed, I click the three buttons and select "Don't recommend channel". If enough of us do this that actively watch that kind of subject matter, hopefully the YouTube algorithm will have a negative effect on the channel.

 

[SaparotRob]

When these pop up in my feed, I click the three buttons and select "Don't recommend channel". If enough of us do this that actively watch that kind of subject matter, hopefully the YouTube algorithm will have a negative effect on the channel.

I do that too but the same offending vids usually reappear quickly.

 

[Gnomey]

When these pop up in my feed, I click the three buttons and select "Don't recommend channel". If enough of us do this that actively watch that kind of subject matter, hopefully the YouTube algorithm will have a negative effect on the channel.

Only thing to do.

 

[Skyediamonds]

Speaking of AI videos; I must admit I was impressed with one particular movie of the Red Tails being able to perform a tail slide maneuver with his P-51 Mustang. This was the exact same maneuver performed in "Fly Boys," a film starring James Franco of WWI early biplanes being engaged in aerial combat.

This has led me to speculate that it's only a matter of time before a YT video pops up with an amazing title of this once top secret file was only recently revealed how a B-29 bomber managed to perform the tail slide when escaping from attack of the Zeros.