that's what happens when your AI slop detector is AI slop
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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Vacuum up the internet, provide generative "AI" for people to spew tons of garbage on to the internet. Everyone hates AI, and advertisers don't want ads showing against AI slop. AI can't accurately detect AI and kills real content providers that advertisers want to show ads for.
Brilliant. What will they come up with next?
Reminds me of that comic the other day
Kurzgesagt: Let's keep our art human made.
Google: Kurzgesagt, your content looks like this low quality AI slop!
🤖: I'D LIKE TO THANK KURZGESAGT FOR BEING A BIG INSPIRATION TO ME.
At the same time YouTube offers a prompt to generate more AI content.
No, this is just a stunt to claim that it is difficult to detect AI slop, when in reality they want that content as it is more addictive, especially to kids.
The goddamn banchode running the biz, and greenlit this garbage moderation. Fuck AI.
Yet YouTube Music is absolutely rife with AI bullshit. So much fake-ass viking, cowboy, or other 'badass' AI generated slop.
thats why im always hitting the report button. be part of the solution. not passively part of the problem.
I would say that being part of the solution is not using their service at all.
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I'm sure the bill gates money will protect them lol
I was recently accused on Lemmy of using AI to write up a post (laced with links to appropriate Wikipedia articles).
I'm still not sure how I feel about it.
Did you use an emdash
Oh you used a big word, AI phony!
Nah dude, I just . . . know how to write?
It really doesn't help that in the US there's a major literacy crisis.
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This is the shit state of the world now. Everything gets accused of being AI by someone. The AI tech bros have well and truly won. They've poisoned everything.
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Funny, because I can still see a lot of slop still on the site.
YouTube’s bullshit is having some interesting effects for sure. Have you noticed how more and more channels are now including short clips of them doing the actual voiceover? It’s usually not even that long, like a second or two or sometimes even less. But apparently that’s now needed to prove that there’s an actual human behind the channel.
I do find it a bit distracting, but I’d rather not lose those channels either…
Even that doesn't always work. There is one channel I know of that got auto banned despite using live shots of everyone doing live introductions of their stories.
This shit reminds me of that helicopter gunner scene in Full Metal Jacket:
“Everyone who doesn’t show their face is an AI. Everyone who does show their face is a well-disciplined AI.”
Problem is that most people and automated systems are downright terrible at figuring out what’s actually AI. Even AI itself can’t always tell if it’s AI.
I’ve had people accuse my posts on social media as AI, just because I can write more than two sentences without spelling errors. Since they can’t, they think nobody can…
So now I tend to leave the occasional delibarete spelling mistake just so people don’t think this was written by ChatGPT. Unless I put that in my prompt, obviously 😂
Using AI to detect AI has, time and time again, proven to be a broken idea. Here is Google with a genius idea: use AI to detect AI, to prevent AI videos.
Keep in mind folks, this is a global top-three company in terms of revenue.
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Use AI channel blocker, but I guess most of you people use phones or tablets so you're fucked either way
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