Generative AI on YouTube
The platform's approach to content created with Artificial Intelligence, which includes strategies for labeling AI-generated videos and developing tools to protect creators' likenesses from unauthorized use.
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Summary
Generative AI on YouTube is a significant and evolving topic, with the platform's CEO, Neal Mohan, acknowledging its rise and outlining YouTube's strategic response. This strategy includes implementing transparent labeling for AI-generated content and developing new Likeness Detection technology, building upon the success of its Content ID system, to protect creators' rights. The broader landscape of generative AI also encompasses the concern of "AI slop," a term coined in the 2020s to describe low-quality, high-volume media produced by AI, characterized by a lack of effort and substance. Generative AI itself is defined as AI that creates new, original content like texts, images, videos, music, or voices, often initiated by user prompts. This phenomenon presents a complex challenge for YouTube, balancing the growth of its creator economy, upholding free speech, and maintaining content integrity, especially as millions of YouTube videos have been used to train these AI models.
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Training Data Source
Millions of YouTube videos have been used to train generative AI tools.
Definition of AI Slop
Low-quality media made with generative artificial intelligence, characterized by an inherent lack of effort and overwhelming volume.
Connotation of AI Slop
Pejorative, similar to spam.
Input for Generative AI
Prompt (a description in a chat dialogue box)
Characteristics of AI Slop
Digital clutter, filler content prioritizing speed and quantity over substance and quality, shoddy or unwanted AI content, incredibly banal, realistic style.
New Technology Development
Likeness Detection technology
Potential of Generative AI
Can serve as a writing or learning partner, holds immense potential.
Definition of Generative AI
Artificial intelligence that creates new, original content, such as texts, images, videos, music, or voices, rather than just finding or classifying existing content.
Blueprint for New Technology
Content ID system
YouTube's Strategy for Generative AI
Commitment to protecting creators' Likeness Rights
Human Responsibility in Generative AI
Humans should be responsible for the facts.
Timeline
- The term "AI slop" was coined to describe low-quality media made with generative artificial intelligence. (Source: wikipedia)
2020s
- Andrew Lo's video on "Generative AI Applications" was posted on the MIT YouTube channel. (Source: web_search_results)
2023-12-18
- The Atlantic's "AI Watchdog" is conducting an ongoing investigation into how YouTube videos are being used to train generative AI tools. (Source: web_search_results)
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Wikipedia
View on WikipediaAI slop
AI slop is low-quality media made with generative artificial intelligence. It is characterized by an inherent lack of effort and is currently being generated at an overwhelming volume. Coined in the 2020s, the term has a pejorative connotation similar to spam. AI slop has been variously defined as "digital clutter", "filler content [prioritizing] speed and quantity over substance and quality", and "shoddy or unwanted AI content in social media, art, books and [...] search results". Jonathan Gilmore, a philosophy professor at the City University of New York, describes the material as having an "incredibly banal, realistic style" which is easy for the viewer to process.
Web Search Results
- Generative AI explained in 2 minutes - YouTube
48 comments ### Transcript: What exactly is generative AI? When new content is created by artificial intelligence, it’s called generative AI. This could involve generating texts and images, as well as videos, music, or voices. To do this, you describe in a chat dialogue box what you want the AI to create. This description is called a "prompt". The generative AI tools provide answers to all sorts of questions, summarise complex information, [...] When new content is created by artificial intelligence (AI), it's called generative AI. This can be texts and images, but also videos, music or voices. Examples of generative AI are AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard, and text-to-image generators like Midjourney, Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. Do you want to learn more about AI? You can find free online courses on the AI Campus learning platform. Learn everything about AI online now at [...] with meaningful prompts and use them thoughtfully. Generative AI holds immense potential and can help us in many ways – such as serving as a writing or learning partner. However, the AI should do the hard work, and humans should be responsible for the facts.
- Generative AI in a Nutshell - how to survive and thrive in the age of AI
see a YouTube recommendation or a web search result or whenever you get a credit card transaction approved that's traditional AI in action generative AI is AI that generates new original content rather than just finding or classifying existing content that's the G in GPT for example large language models or llms are a type of generative AI that can communicate using normal human language chat GPT is a product by the company open AI it started as an llm essentially an advanced chatbot using a [...] You can decide if you want to host it on your youtube channel or if I should host it. If you have practical questions you can ask Stefan Kirschnick, he made the German dub and is happy to provide support.
- Generative AI Applications: Andrew Lo - YouTube
The MIT YouTube channel features videos about all types of MIT research, including the robot cheetah, LIGO, gravitational waves, mathematics, and bombardier beetles, as well as videos on origami, time capsules, and other aspects of life and culture on the MIT campus. Our goal is to open the doors of MIT and bring the Institute to the world through video. [...] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to advance knowledge; to educate students in science, engineering, technology, humanities and social sciences; and to tackle the most pressing problems facing the world today. We are a community of hands-on problem-solvers in love with fundamental science and eager to make the world a better place. [...] # Generative AI Applications: Andrew Lo ## Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 939000 subscribers 505 likes ### Description 15464 views Posted: 18 Dec 2023 Andrew Lo, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, CSAIL, and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, talks about how AI can impact finance, including whether large language models can provide sound financial advice. Watch more videos from MIT:
- From Idea to AI: Building Applications with Generative AI - YouTube
Discover the exciting world of building applications with Generative AI! Cedric Clyburn explores the process of creating AI-powered applications, from ideation to deployment, & delves into the importance of specialized models, understanding model size and performance, and various prompting techniques. With the perfect tools and frameworks, you'll deploy your apps like a pro and make a real impact! AI news moves fast. Sign up for a monthly newsletter for AI updates from IBM → [...] 23 comments ### Transcript: [...] accessible for developers like you and me. And you have plenty of tools out there to help you along the process. But what I want to emphasize is that while AI is new, well, it's actually just another tool that you can add to your tool belt. And so what you can do is use these tools and use the different steps of process to go from ideation to building to deployment of the ideas applications to make a real impact with your work. By using GenAI.
- Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI
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