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In reply to the discussion: PLEASE be extra careful of YouTube videos you post here. There's a tsunami of misinformation, much of it AI slop. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,589 posts)55. I think it would be more useful to dedicate an area or forum that DUers can post suspicious videos from YT
To look out for those ones. And know they are fake.
And just to show others what they look like.
Ignoring the problem won't make it go away
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PLEASE be extra careful of YouTube videos you post here. There's a tsunami of misinformation, much of it AI slop. [View all]
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
OP
There's good stuff on YouTube, but like every other social media platform, you have to pay attention
Ocelot II
Jul 2025
#5
I agree there's a lot of great stuff on YouTube. But the tsunami of AI slop is making it harder to
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
#6
I posted the AI slop video the OP in that thread was apparently referring to, in a reply there, and the YouTube
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
#8
The same for X, Reddit, TikTok, etc, and even some Bluesky posts, plus many rando blogs and dodgy sites.
Celerity
Jul 2025
#4
Yup. There's no filter, and people post crap everywhere - AI or just regular crap.
Ocelot II
Jul 2025
#7
Agree. And maybe it's not just innocent or ignorant folks posting these threads. nt
Brenda
Jul 2025
#24
We should have a review committee to vet these vidoes before they can be posted
FakeNoose
Jul 2025
#9
That would be good only IF there's a way to go through that process within a few minutes
Wednesdays
Jul 2025
#36
OK ... maybe they only need to be vetted if they're from something other than a trusted national news source
FakeNoose
Jul 2025
#37
Are you saying the "live action video" of Trump running naked through the desert is not real?
LiberalArkie
Jul 2025
#20
I have to say I could use a tutorial in how to recognize AI. Sometimes i can tell but I don't know enough to recognize
Amaryllis
Jul 2025
#25
An authoritative YouTube AI gleefully describes Cabot's cuckoldry and details his financial preparations for divorce.
Marcuse
Jul 2025
#27
There are "authoritative" AI videos with obituaries of people who are still alive, sensational accounts of
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
#48
AI detectors are notoriously unreliable. There are some platforms using different techniques to label
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
#49
the value of the content is usually inversely propotional to the amount of caps nt
msongs
Jul 2025
#33
99.9 percent of the Youtube videos I ever post here are rock music performances...
Jack Valentino
Jul 2025
#39
I host Music Appreciation, and almost every OP there has at least one video with music. Those are fine, unless
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
#46
Can we use an alert? What rules do we have regarding mis/disinformation?
littlemissmartypants
Jul 2025
#44
I think it would be more useful to dedicate an area or forum that DUers can post suspicious videos from YT
LiberalLovinLug
Jul 2025
#55
I think it would be interesting to have a forum to post and debate how fake, or not, a video is
LiberalLovinLug
Jul 2025
#59
I realize you mean well, but there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of such videos added to YouTube
highplainsdem
Jul 2025
#60