With so much AI slop on YouTube, it's no longer safe to give videos the benefit of the doubt. Always check

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to see if they're AI or likely to be AI.

We've had at least three DUers tricked by AI slop videos today. The first slop video I saw came from a channel posting only AI slop videos about earthquakes (only 5 as of this morning, but the channel had just started posting them on the 1st of July). Then another DUer was tricked by an AI slop channel posting nothing but fake Bill Clinton statements, using an AI clone of his voice - garbage that AI user had written for that fraud. 60 such videos since April 1. Then a third DUer was tricked by AI slop supposedly giving inside information from the Vatican - 232 videos about that since January 22.

ALWAYS, to avoid AI slop, check the date a video was uploaded. If it's more than a few years old, you don't have to worry that it was generated with AI and probably filled with AI errors that no one bothered to catch, if not deliberate fraud.

But if it was posted in the last few years, more checking is necessary.

GO TO THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL it's from and look at the other videos. If it's a recent video and the channel is posting videos nearly every day and sometimes multiple times a day, the odds are it's AI slop, UNLESS it's from a real news organization with a large staff.

Check the information in the channel profile and individual video descriptions. Sometimes AI users admit they're using AI, but not all do.

Check the YouTube comments on videos, because you'll often find comments saying that AI slop videos are AI.

If there is ANY use of AI art, even for the thumbnail (top image), the odds are that isn't the only such use of AI. I hope you can recognize typical AI art, which often has a finish I've sometimes seen described as looking like plastic.

If the video includes images or short video snippets that don't go with the narration, it was likely patched together by AI.

If a series of videos on the same theme have different voices narrating different videos, the odds are it's AI narration.

There is an incredible amount of AI slop on YouTube already, some of it produced by content farms or individuals that are likely to have set up other YouTube channels on different subjects, all of them just clickbait.

See this thread in Musicians, the OP and replies, for the sort of things you might run into with AI slop: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10358002

It's an AI slop swamp out there. But if you do some checking before copying videos to DU, you can help keep it from spreading here.