PLEASE be extra careful of YouTube videos you post here. There's a tsunami of misinformation, much of it AI slop. [View all]

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You'll see lots of fake news about encounters and experiences Trump and other politicians and celebrities had. These are often obviously AI, but some people still can't recognize AI art and video.

You'll see videos from YouTube channels making political points and claiming to be sympathetic anonymous people. Yesterday one example was a channel purportedly from an elderly man who was dying and was trying to raise the alarm about the decline of British society. "He" was also criticizing both the ruling Labour Party and the Tories and praising Nigel Farage's Reform Party. That supposedly dying man was generating multiple videos with AI slop per day, trying to get people upset with the UK government the way Fox News riles up their viewers and offers Republicans as saviors.

Be wary of any YouTubers whose activity elsewhere online you can't verify. Reliable news outlets, pundits, podcasters and journalists are fine. Watch out for newer YouTube channels posting a lot of videos, especially multiple videos a day.

If they use AI to create art, they're more likely to use AI to write scripts and have them narrated by AI voices.

If they use AI to create satirical or parody videos, even if those videos attack Trump and other people we despise, they aren't necessarily liberal. They can very well be equal-opportunity clickbait producers, since this stuff requires little or no effort. Check their older videos. Sometimes with channels of that type, you'll see shifts in topics they focus on, testing different types of AI-generated clickbait till they find the best one to reel in viewers. They don't deserve views from DUers.

I wish it weren't necessary to warn people to watch out for this sort of garbage online, but generative AI tools have made the internet much worse in just a few years.