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highplainsdem

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12. Yes. Good chance it's AI if it's 1-2 years old, too. A script written by AI and AI images could show up in

Reply to msongs (Reply #8)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 08:11 PM

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videos a few years old.

A professor at Wharton who's a huge fan of AI has admitted anything more recent than 2022 might have been created at least in part with AI. My March 2024 post about that:

An academic fan of AI, who found an AI fake bio of himself, just compared AI to the meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218765223

ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022, making text generators easy and free to use. Image generators were still pretty crude in 2022 but got much better in 2023. So did AI voice generators. AI video and music generators were becoming fairly good in 2024.

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I've probably been underestimating how much AI slop is inundating YouTube. [View all] highplainsdem Friday OP

Worried that AI slop will destroy reality in research. cachukis Friday #1

GenAI is destroying almost everything it touches (it's the Trump of technologies). highplainsdem Friday #3

yes... make AI bros watch it like this..... CurtEastPoint Friday #2

They would deserve it. highplainsdem Friday #4

Pathe films Maninacan Friday #5

GenAI tools are plagiarism machines. highplainsdem Friday #7

As a history documentary enjoyer, it is truly irritating Sympthsical Friday #6

Don't be surprised if there are soon AI copies of those channels by real people you trust. Much as I hate highplainsdem Friday #11

tons of history videos, nothing but Ai slide shows. new channels posting dozens a week. if it's less than msongs Friday #8

Yes. Good chance it's AI if it's 1-2 years old, too. A script written by AI and AI images could show up in highplainsdem Friday #12

I agree with canetoad Friday #9

It's destroying YouTube, and hurting the creatives who put the most work into their videos. highplainsdem Saturday #14

It's a LOT Ursus Rex Friday #10

True. I miss the YouTube that existed before AI slop. highplainsdem Saturday #15

As if there weren't enough human-generated slop inundating the cyberverse, ... Straw Man Friday #13

AI slop is a much worse problem because it's so easy to generate. highplainsdem Saturday #17

Kick dalton99a Saturday #16