Just saw the notification for this in my Youtube Studio. For now it seems as if this setting is turned off by default, but for anyone like myself who uploads videos to Youtube, I recommend checking that they don’t decide to toggle this on for you in the future.

  • @[email protected]
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    561 month ago

    Coincidentally, Google just like two days ago revealed their new text-to-video AI model that somehow is leaps and bounds above the rest of the competition they attribute to better training data. How weird. Coincidentally weird, of course.

    • Pennomi
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      261 month ago

      They’re not a third-party! Loophole!

    • @Grimy
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      151 month ago

      All video generation models are heavily trained on YouTube. YouTube and Hollywood are essentially the only datasets.

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      It’s going to be fun navigating Youtube in the future when 95% of it is robotic videos with 95% AI comments below to match.

      Honestly, I wish it was the other way around, a video-to-text service that writes a good synthesis, a complete transliteration with formating, or even an expanded version, with screenshoot images if deemed necessary. So many videos could be turned into nice essays and commentary.

      • @Squizzy
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        21 month ago

        I despise seeing an interesting topic or attention grabbing question only for it to be a 20-30 minute shit heap.

    • @fnrir
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      EDIT: Wrong comment. Sorry

  • smokebuddy [he/him]
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    231 month ago

    Imagine companies using YouTube videos to train their AI customer service reps. You call in, and for a while think you’re having a conversation with a person, but weirdly every minute and a half or so it’s just randomly peppered with that metal gear solid alert sound, the inevitable waowwww sound effect, Michael Scott and Dr. Evil soundboard clips, then when you start getting suspicious that it may not actually be a real human on the other line they randomly go on an ad read for hellofresh out of nowhere

  • asudox
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    171 month ago

    Yeah, third party companies. Google is still allowed to train their AI on them.

  • @Lost_My_Mind
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    171 month ago

    Me: "I should upload a series of daily videos where I speak exclusively jibberish, while doing insane movements/“dances”

    “USHNXMBXSGJLOCXRH OJCSSIKBFHHFDUKFSYKM TKJFSTJVDDJVCDIBCF”

    meanwhile doing hip thrusts and cartwheels simutaniously while my neighbor below bangs on their ceiling with a broom

    • @calcopiritus
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      Don’t worry. This is just third party AIs. Google’s AIs will still be trained on them without your permission.

  • @thebestaquaman
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    131 month ago

    Looking at the general quality of YouTube videos, and the expected demographic of people that would select this option, this looks like a recipe for creating the most conspiracy-theory-oriented AI ever created.

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    1330 days ago

    Guess which option will be set to off by users, which youtube will make the default to “on”, and then entirely remove the button when users adapt to turning it off.

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    The youtube videos have already been used to train AI. MKBHD proved it when sora crapped out his own plant in a generated “tech video”. The question is whether google allowed it or not.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Both could be filtered out in theory (which they should do if they were smart, because amount of training data matters way less than quality or training data), but filtering AI created slop is harder, especially if you just slightly modify it.

    • @Womble
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      230 days ago

      Gosh you’ve certainly got them there, no way they could spot that and its bound to ruin their whole model with that 0.00001% of input it represents.

  • Humanius
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    I have a YouTube channel as well, and also got notified about this.
    The setting is disabled by default, so I don’t have a particularly large problem with it. But that might also be because I’m in the EU.

    • @BigDaddySlimOP
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      141 month ago

      Surprisingly I’m in the US and it’s off by default, at least for now. They’ll toggle it on then claim it was an accident after they make a couple billion dollars.

      • @Squizzy
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        31 month ago

        Its not surprising. Youtube now has standing to sue other models for scrapping their information while also making it exclusive to third party consent - there is no toggle visible for google using to model ai.

        This is them making it explicit that only they can use youtube, especially given how it has shown to be a great asset in putting them ahead with the text to video.

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    I don’t upload YouTube videos so I’m unsure about the logistics of settings for videos. Do you get these options on videos already uploaded or is this only an option when first uploaded? Is this for the whole channel or video specific? Just curious how it works. Regardless if they ever decide to turn it on by default that would mean YouTubers would have to go through hundreds of videos and turn it off individually unless it’s a channel wide setting kinda thing.

    Edit: Just noticed it’s under channel settings so I guess that’s a good thing. If it was video specific that would be just plain evil. I guess I shouldn’t give them ideas…

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    31 month ago

    You know as a fact that they probably rolled out the feature.and then turned it on for every single uploaded video that ever existed in the platform before the rollout.