ai-slop, deepfakes, etc. There are so many out there, how do we tell?

[niyad]

One of the reasons I go to the actual youtube channel is to read the comments before I even open the video, unless it is a person/channel I trust, based on experience. Those comments have alerted me several times to the fakes. The other thing is that I read the descriptions, including the "more". . , and, if need be, click on the channel name itself. In one case, I had to read all the way to the last paragraph of the channel description to learn that it was ai-slop.

Now, I realize that not everybody has that kind of time, nor are many people as deeply cyniical as I am. All we can do is be as vigilant as possible.

By the way, not every reading of the descriptors is negative. I have found all sorts of interesting information in many that I have read. It is one of the reasons I actually read the credits when I watch a movie. One never knows what one might learn. As an example, I watched "The Last Holiday" with Queen Latifah the other day. Several of the important scenes took place witth the character's church choir. The credits showed that it was the Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir. Just an interesting piece of information to me.

[SheltieLover]

1. Ty for sharing!

I hate AI!

[niyad]

2. You are most welcome.

I share your hate.

[SheltieLover]

4. Great minds...

[niyad]

6. YES!!!

[SheltieLover]

15. ...

[highplainsdem]

3. Great information! Thank you!

[niyad]

7. You are most welcome.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The obvious fakes are robotic, repetitive, the mouth doesn't quite fit all the words, and

the vocal cadence is measured, like a rhythm.

[niyad]

8. Not all of them are obvious. The Randy Rainbow/Kelly Clarkson one,

for example.

[CrispyQ]

13. Omg, someone made a Randy Rainbow fake?

I love him, but why would you fake him? Even if you fool people they still like Randy, not you. ??? I don't get it.

[niyad]

19. The fake was, as I understand it, based on an interview Randy

apparently did with Kelly back in May. The fake had Kelly being rude and ugly to Randy to the point that he said, "F### this" and walked off the set. I only found out about it because a friend texted me recently after seeing the fake and thinking it was real. Since it didn't sound like Randy, and I didn't really know anything about Kelly, I went looking. Took me a few minutes to track it down, buried in the last paragraph of the channel description.

[CrispyQ]

21. Thanks. I totally misunderstood. -nt

[niyad]

22. You are most welcome.

[bigtree]

9. I just sat through a George Will video on youtube that turned out to be AL

...descriptor on the site page, but really insidiously made to look like the real thing.

[niyad]

10. You purposely subjected yourself to him?

[RockRaven]

11. AI slop and deepfakes are an exacerbation, but the underlying problem is old:

People want to profit from your attention and people want to manipulate you. They can, and do, do this without AI and deepfakes.

Getting good at spotting AI and deepfakes is perhaps less important than getting good at spotting attention-seeking and manipulation.

[niyad]

12. Amazingly enough, some of us know this, and know how to do it.

[PatSeg]

14. I'm getting pretty good at detecting AI images and videos

When I'm not absolutely sure, I use an online AI detector. I am so tired of people trying to pass off fakes as real. Mostly I am disturbed by how many people think they are real, which could make AI dangerous to society as a whole.

I might add that AI will only get better and more difficult to spot.

AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection

https://hivemoderation.com/ai-generated-content-detection

[LoisB]

16. It is really hard to tell these days. I can't stand the Ai narration.

[True Dough]

17. Some may find this helpful...

[haele]

18. Lol...

Caught it before I looked at the items circled in red

[niyad]

20. Gosh!!! How could we possibly tell???