How can I spot and avoid AI videos?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Dagobah@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I watch a lot of STEAM videos on YouTube. In the past I loved supporting new creators but some time last year I stopped trying new channels that don’t have human presenter, there’s just so much slop. Now I’ve noticed that there are channels where even the presenter is AI. I can spot a few tells (presenter is never on screen for very long, voice pacing doesn’t vary, no ums and ahs, etc) but it’s getting harder and I wish I knew more clues.

One thing that seems to help is checking the channel history (does the presenter age, have they only started making content very recently etc)

Can someone recommend a good, recent guide to spotting AI videos?

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A_norny_mousse@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

I stopped trying new channels that don’t have human presenter, there’s just so much slop. Now I’ve noticed that there are channels where even the presenter is AI. I can spot a few tells (presenter is never on screen for very long, voice pacing doesn’t vary, no ums and ahs, etc) but it’s getting harder and I wish I knew more clues.

Part of the problem is that even human presenters use too many effects so that they look - well, artificial.

Overproduced, as another commenter put it.

Maybe look for channels that don’t do that? On its face, that would be an indicator of quality in my book.

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shish_mish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I check not only if the channel is recent but also how often they release a video.AI channels churn them out at quantity real creators don’t. Still not perfect,need more ways to spot them.

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JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
You ever listened to a radio with the treble turned up to high? AI always sounds like that to me.

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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
I find that I can’t catch AI more easily if I’ve seen what it can output.

For example, the older videos used to use generative AI on the images and videos themselves, which made it easier to spot those.

Some newer videos are made with the “agentic” tools that have access to various scripts and animation libraries, which come out looking very polished and visually identical to human produced ones. For those, I find that the AI will put unnecessary “work”, into the irrelevant parts of the visualizations. Some of the libraries and fonts are more popular than others, so you might notice some tells that way.

For an example to the second category, check out the recent videos from this channel, which has AI generated “music videos”

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- A_norny_mousse@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  
  https://m.youtube.com/@degenerativepixels
  
  Is that the best AI can do nowadays? The video looks obviously unreal even at low resolution. Where’s the difference between 100% CGI produced and AI. Visually, I mean.
  
  The music is just bland. Unfortunately there’s way too many humans that produce slop like this (it’s still their IP though!).
  
  Paraphrasing another commenter here, I’d say “overproduced” is the thing to avoid - whether it’s human or machine made.
  
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davad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
The audio is often a tell. Listen to a few that you know are AI and pay close attention to the “human” voices. They often make sounds that can’t come from human anatomy. They also often sound “over produced” or “over compressed”.

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