Irish version...

[markie]

I like it....

?si=Bvwrddb8z_dWu5aN

[cbabe]

1. Something about Celtic music that makes this song an historically epic ballad.

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[highplainsdem]

14. It's AI slop. It's machine-generated fraud ripping off Springsteen.

[cbabe]

28. Sorry. Sure fooled me.

[highplainsdem]

29. You and others. It was intended to fool people, or it would have been labeled AI very openly. I'm sorry

you were tricked by that fraudster.

[dlk]

35. At least they're not singing flat

n/t

[highplainsdem]

36. No one is singing. A machine is producing notes.

[dlk]

38. The song, however it's been produced, is not flat

That was my point. I love Bruce Springsteen but I could hardly listen to his song about Minneapolis because of all of the flat singing.

It was not a comment in support of AI produced material.

Take a breath.

[highplainsdem]

15. Done by a machine. It's AI slop. See reply 12.

[malaise]

3. Lovely

Rec and spread

[highplainsdem]

16. Please don't spread AI slop that rips off Springsteen. See reply 12.

[electric_blue68]

4. Since Bruce has some Irish ancestry even more appropriate. Sounds good. TY!

[RVN VET71]

5. The Irish can sing it from their own bloodied history

And here they do it damned well.

[electric_blue68]

7. True, this.

[highplainsdem]

18. There's no one Irish on this AI slop generated by a YouTuber in Israel ripping off other famous musicians as well.

[Fritz Walter]

11. I am one-quarter Irish me-self

My maternal great grandparents were Irish famine immigrants who settled in Kentucky.

Have visited Ireland once, decades ago. Can't wait to return! The stout is especially good there.

Sláinte, y'all!

[electric_blue68]

17. In NYC home to many Irish-Americans....

There a sobering Irish Famine memorial just north of the World Trade Center while noting there were other famines as well.

A man-made, grassy "hillside" with real grass, and weeds where an abandoned crumbling Irish home sits.

[highplainsdem]

19. It's AI, not Irish.

[electric_blue68]

20. Oh, well... disappointing, then.

[highplainsdem]

21. Disappointing, fraudulent, and probably stealing clicks, attention and money from real artists.

[RVN VET71]

37. How can you tell? Asking as a person very ignorant of AI duplicity

[highplainsdem]

39. See reply 12, the first reply I posted here. In this case the YouTuber admitted in the video description -

the part of the video description most people never look at - that he used AI.

You don't see ANY of the video description if you're viewing the video when it's embedded on another site, like this one or Reddit or any of the other websites where YouTube videos appear. All you see is the thumbnail, that image you see in the OP, where you click on the arrow to play it. If the video's title is long, you won't even see all of the title.

YouTubers are supposed to label what's created by AI if it can seem realistic:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491

That process, which happens when the video is uploaded, will put an ALTERED OR SYNTHETIC CONTENT label on the thumbnail, on both YouTube and every website where it appears, so anyone seeing it will know right away that it's not real. Both the photorealistic AI artwork and the use of AI for the music and voice would have required that label.

The vast majority of AI users on YouTube apparently completely - and unethically - ignore that requirement. My.guess is they do that because so many people don't want to waste time on AI slop.

With one AI video that was posted to DU fairly recently, the label was added AFTER there had been discussion here that it should have had that label.

On YouTube, you'll find the text description below the video. But to see it on a YouTube page, you have to click Watch on YouTube and then look at the text starting two lines below the video title.

In this case, that line says

#brucespringsteen #irish #folk ...more

You have to click more to see PART of the full video description.

If the full description is at all long, you'll have to click more again to see the rest. As you have to before you see the admission in the description there that AI was used.

This YouTuber included it - but buried it clicks away from the video itself - so he can try to claim later that he wasn't trying to deceive people. But he was. He should have labeled the thumbnail. He could also have added AI to either the start of the video title, so everyone would always see it, or to the start of the video description on YouTube, where people looking at YouTube would see it, but in small print.

But he buried it in the fine print.

People familiar with AI art would have already noticed that the image used for the.video looked like AI photorealistic art, which typically has a look I describe as plastic. Various filters can sometimes do that to real photos and video, and in fact YouTube got caught last summer doing that to short videos uploaded by some creators including producer Rick Beato and a friend of his, musician Rhett Shull:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220580766

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/youtube-shorts-ai-upscaling/683946/

Something strange has been happening on YouTube over the past few weeks. After being uploaded, some videos have been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything. Viewers have noticed “extra punchy shadows,” “weirdly sharp edges,” and a smoothed-out look to footage that makes it look “like plastic.” Many people have come to the same conclusion: YouTube is using AI to tweak videos on its platform, without creators’ knowledge.

...In his video, Shull says he believes that “AI upscaling” is being used—a process that increases an image’s resolution and detail—and is concerned about what it could signal to his audience. “I think it’s gonna lead people to think that I am using AI to create my videos. Or that it’s been deepfaked. Or that I’m cutting corners somehow,” he said. “It will inevitably erode viewers’ trust in my content.”

-snip-

....YouTube didn’t tell me what motivated its experiment, but some people suspect that it has to do with creating a more uniform aesthetic across the platform. As one YouTube commenter wrote: “They’re training us, the audience, to get used to the AI look and eventually view it as normal.”

IMO that plastic look is creepy. AI peddlers hope to find some way to get rid of it, because despite claims to being willing to disclose AI use, in fact they really want to make their AI slop indistinguishable from real images and video.

And now that you know more than you might've wanted to know about that...

The number of videos posted in a short time is also often a clue. Some YouTube channels using AI might post multiple videos a day, just as AI-using "writers" might upload multiple books a day to a self-publishing platform like Kindle.

The YouTuber in the OP wasn't doing quite as many, and had posted some videos that weren't AI occasionally for years earlier, but on October 12 he started posting AI-generated videos ripping off hits by well-known.artists, beginning with Alex Warren's song Carry You.Home.

Since that time he's posted about 90 AI-generated videos using AI to rip off those artists, in less than 4 months. Not quite 1 new video a day, but too rapid a pace to likely be anything but AI.

The videos use different voices, too. With AI slop channels about what's supposedly history, you'll often hear different narrators. Even when an AI user tries hard to generate what are supposedly multiple songs by one (nonexistent) artist, they often can't keep the AI singer's voice from changing.

Some AI users have a thumbnail on the video supposedly showing the singer or narrator, and that imaginary person's appearance typically changes slightly between videos.

And sometimes you get glaringly obvious errors, like a video.supposedly about life in the US in the '70s that had an image of people sitting around a table, their arms on the table...but there was.a spare arm not attached to a body hanging out with them.

[mn9driver]

6. Well done! Passing it along.

[highplainsdem]

22. It's AI slop that rips off Springsteen's great song.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Fuck this AI slop.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. "Artist" is Israeli, and it is probably AI

see https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221003534#post2

[highplainsdem]

13. Definitely AI. See reply 12.

[demmiblue]

10. Unrec... AI

The visual character shown in this cover was created using Artificial Intelligence tools to reflect the artistic vision of the song.

This cover is created using human music production with Artificial Intelligence-assisted vocals and tools to shape the artistic vision of the channel.

[highplainsdem]

12. You may like it, but I'd bet Springsteen would hate this AI slop version ripping off his work. So disrespectful

to follow his heartfelt song with a crap version made by a machine, as the ethics-free AI user who has that YouTube channel of AI slop did.

From the description of that video:

The visual character shown in this cover was created using Artificial Intelligence tools to reflect the artistic vision of the song.
This cover is created using human music production with Artificial Intelligence-assisted vocals and tools to shape the artistic vision of the channel.

"Human music production" could mean almost anything, even changing a single note.

This is AI slop, both the artwork and the music. That AI user has no real respect for all the human artists including Springsteen whose work was ripped off to train the AI, and now he's ripping them off even more.

This is an insult to Springsteen and all real artists.

The older videos on Ethan Gontar's channel aren't AI. But a few months ago that unethical YouTuber started using AI to do "his" version of hits by Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran and others.

And now he's used AI to generate a disgusting machine travesty of that Springsteen protest song.

[Deuxcents]

23. I originally thought this was a tribute to Springsteen but out of respect, I'm deleting my post

[highplainsdem]

25. I'm sorry it tricked you. I hate this sort of AI-enabled fraud, and it's all over YouTube now. That YouTuber

admits to using AI, but only in the description that a lot of people never read.

[Deuxcents]

26. Not a techie but glad you and others are here to warn us..rarely get on YouTube but do get it here

With AI being so invasive, I’m gonna have to learn to check for clues because it’s so hard to trust anything, anymore. Thanks for the heads up..

[highplainsdem]

31. You're very welcome! I wish we didn't have to watch out for these AI-using frauds.

I'm not a techie, either, but generative AI looked so potentially harmful as soon as ChatGPT was released 3 years and 2 months ago that I started learning all I could about it.

And still underestimated how much harm it would do, and how fast. It's destroying so much...

[Deuxcents]

32. Another plague

[canetoad]

24. What a coincidence

Yesterday I was watching the same channel with an Irish folk version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

[demmiblue]

27. BTW, that account has another AI video posted titled, "Pray for the Left."

The lyrics are quite something. Here is a smidgen:

They always said that Charlie Kirk was a nazi, then they celebrated after they killed him
They tried to tell us that black lives matter, and that white people have always been villains
They burnin' flags in the streets, and they scream at police taking illegals to prison
They got rainbows on they bedroom walls, and they swear to God that men be women

They're scrolling through their TikTok's to get the news
They heard that Trump's a fascist, they swear it's true
They set fire to Minnesota, we smell the fumes
They say that guns are dangerous, guess they're the proof

They'll shoot that red hat off your head, then make a meme of your last breath
Cause you're not like them, so they want you dead, but, we'll still pray for the left
They'll say that they're hurt by things we said, then say we deserve it when we're dead
When we're shot in neck with our last breath, we'll still pray for the left

Perhaps you’ll consider deleting.

[highplainsdem]

30. Ugh. That's really disgusting. And that YouTuber, Ethan Gontar, has two AI versions of that song, one

a rock version with a male AI voice, the other acoustic with a female AI voice.

Gontar must REALLY like that song's lyrics.

But he didn't write it. It's a song by RW Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald, sometimes called a MAGA rapper.

[highplainsdem]

33. Thank you for looking at the slop there carefully enough to notice that AI atrocity of an atrocious RW song.

I'd just skimmed back over the videos to see when he started posting what was obviously AI slop.

[Aristus]

34. I was fooled enough to post it, too. I deleted mine.