YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

nemomarx

> Under YouTube’s guidelines, creators will still be required to manually disclose when they use realistic AI. But starting this week, it also will roll out a new internal system to help identify AI-generated content. “If a creator doesn’t specify whether or not they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label,” YouTube said. detect how? synthid is the only obvious one I can think of. user reports would make some sense. But what's the sota for ai detection?

asveikau

The idea that you can automatically detect AI generated content seems misguided. It will make mistakes. I think I've heard of things being wrongfully tagged as AI generated on other platforms.

Imustaskforhelp

Finally a decent change by Youtube! Great job Youtube but overall unsure about the situation at Google itself and what Google itself is doing. I do overall wish if Youtube could've been spinned independent from Google given there might be some conflict of interests, Youtube still tries to push a lot of AI slop towards the creators and sometimes even the viewers perhaps because of google, but seems like Youtube has pushed back against some aspects of the AI slop. the thing I am wondering is how easy it might be to break that bypass and also about the false positives. A lot of creators recently got demonitized for apparently not much of a reason aside from false positives which is incredibly sad if one's livelihood depended on it. These people end up taking it on twitter from my understanding but it only really sometimes end up working if enough people watch the twitter or get attention overall on the topic so I hope that youtube works towards its (creators support??) side too.

floxy

That's great news. Hopefully there will be a filter to allow or disallow AI video on your homepage/feed.

andrewstuart

I really wish there was a button to voluntarily say / tag your own content as AI assisted. The assumption that users will always hide this results in flaky auto detection.

stillnotalone

This could backfire.. im thinking of "real" videos with elements of AI in them. Those elements might not get the video flairs as an AI video and people will get fooled

numpad0

> “If a creator doesn’t specify whether or not they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label,” YouTube said. > YouTube creators who believe their content was incorrectly flagged as AI-generated can modify the disclosure status using the YouTube Studio tool. What's the general overall state of AI-based AI flagging tools development? They seemed to have absurd false positive rates of not even 50% while it's obvious to whom it is obvious, no matter who or how it's done.

GodelNumbering

I hope their detector is better than the typical 'AI detection in text' services. False negatives are bad, false positives are worse as some creators could lose their source of income.

simlevesque

AI versus AI, the final faceoff. Who's gonna win? Probably not us.

apercu

"Please prove your content was created by a flawed biological organism."

650REDHAIR

Isn’t YouTube applying weird AI processing to shorts? So all shorts will be labeled? Maybe I’m not the target audience for Google products anymore? I have to use Yandex and DDG for search results now. Gemini has insane throttling so I’ve just embraced local models for most things and the occasional API call to whatever frontier model I think will work best. YouTube search is abysmal and new content is 98% consumerism BS. My Gmail is mostly spam and mailing lists I can’t seem to get off of with the occasional scam attempt thrown in. Guess I’m just ranting to rant at this point. I grew up online and now the internet feels weird and I think I might be “over it”.

Raed667

I'm willing to bet this is just an easily bypassable SynthID check

p1necone

Donning my tinfoil hat for a moment, YouTube is in a position here to simultaneously iterate on automatic AI video detection while also working out how to make AI generated video that's impossible to detect.

whalesalad

Thank fuck. There is SO much garbage on YT lately which amounts to a powerpoint deck with ai audio overlaid.

jonbaer

Would really be nice if they did the same with their ads, but don't see that happening

sunaookami

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gitpusher

Interesting. Although it seems they are focusing primarily on detecting AI generated video and imagery. But most of the annoying slop videos I come across seem like they are using real footage/video clips. It's just edited together by AI and there's an AI narrator reading an AI script. I wonder if they'll do anything to guard against this type of junk

antran22

Let’s use probabilistic models to find the probability of something being the output of another probabilistic model

techtivist

Honestly, this whole AI-labeling approach seems to be the opposite approach to take. Instead why not authenticate genuine "non-AI content". Work together with the hardware and software layer with an open approach, building on top of contend id. I appreciate the privacy implications here are complex, and Google is dubious on using any tracking/fingerprinting technology for its self-serving and privacy-invading motivations, but an open cross-industry foundation owning and operating it may be a first step?

ge96

One field I was wondering about. There are a lot of channels/videos where they take movie summaries, feed it into an AI to generate TTS, graphics... I hate these videos but I'm also like damn good job trying to capitalize on that, why don't I do it kind of thing. I don't have that money making drive/hustle. I need to. Some are funny some SORA, Neural Viz