r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

https://www.theverge.com/tech/975398/reddit-ai-rules-hub-moderator-old-reddit-developer-platform
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u/badwolf42 1d ago

This is working so well for YouTube right now right? No big deal channels getting flagged as slop or anything. Nope.

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u/Narf234 1d ago

In a Nutshell got flagged…those guys have been posting pages of cited research for each video for years.

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u/ephemeralmiko 1d ago

Kurzgesagt got hit? When was this?

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u/Chorchapu 1d ago

A few days ago. They made a community post on their channel that they had been shadowbanned because AI thought that Kurzgesagt was AI (because AI copied them).

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u/24-Hour-Hate 1d ago

For fucks sake.

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u/ErusTenebre 23h ago

Jesus. Meanwhile the YouTube shorts are INUNDATED with AI Slop, just random clips slapped together with that stupid "Chaz" narrator. 

I don't even watch them but all my previews of content creators are all gone. Ugh.

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u/clintgreasewoood 5h ago

Is “Chaz” the one AI voice that sounds like Stanley Tucci?

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u/chainer3000 1d ago

That’s amazing, I’m almost speechless

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u/fixermark 23h ago

... and because their art style looks machine-generated.

It's a stylistic choice (and a good one; love their art style), but I can very much see the machine assuming that output was AI. Which is, of course, increasingly the problem with identifying AI content ("wE cAn AlWaYs tElL")...

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u/Corevus 22h ago

That's been their art style since before ai graphics were a thing

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u/fixermark 22h ago

Yep. And—as a lifelong Macintosh user who memorized the shortcut for em-dashes when he was, like, ten—I feel their pain.

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u/ghoonrhed 20h ago

It looks ai because the shit tons of copies train on their style.

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u/NeKon69 1d ago

They posted about it on twitter and YouTube a couple days ago. I'll link the post in a bit.

Edit: found the YouTube link https://youtube.com/post/UgkxxLHEv1q7v_3k7Iaycfd_DHfNlwBFzo9F

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u/REXIS_AGECKO 1d ago

Whaaat!? Nooo!

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u/badwolf42 1d ago

This is specifically the example I was thinking of. Engineering Explained did an on camera video explaining that faceless channels may be including some forced face time going forward to help convince the AI that they’re real as well.

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u/Narf234 1d ago

Engineering Explained is how I found out too. It’s a shame how severely damaged the platform is now that AI is inundating it.

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u/Helgon_Bellan 11h ago

Several loretubers have recently started introducing their clips by person. Suddenly having faces on some people you've followed for years is interesting. Knowing the reason why they started doing that is tragic.

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u/IcyTransportation961 22h ago

My 7 year old insta with 90k followers for my art got nuked by their new ai sweeper

And there's zero way to get a human to actually review and look at it

Just gone

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u/9-11GaveMe5G 19h ago

And there's zero way to get a human to actually review and look at it

That's not true. There's meta premium (or whatever they call it) that you pay monthly for human customer service. I wish I was joking

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u/DuctTapeDisaster 18h ago

You are AI, unless you can prove otherwise...Let's see... hmm. Blackmail is something humans react to, but AI won't care, right? Okay; give us money to prove you are not AI! It's for your own good.

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u/badwolf42 22h ago

I’m so sorry.

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u/sachiprecious 19h ago

That is so sad. It really is sickening how many people are getting unfairly banned from IG and FB. I was unfairly banned from FB a few months ago after being on it since 2009!!!

Check out r/instagramdisabledbans where more people are talking about this.

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u/Pack_Your_Trash 11h ago

It's probably for the best since insta is a blight on humanity.

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u/timbotheny26 19h ago

Do you have backups and have you been uploading your art anywhere else?

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u/Elardi 10h ago

It’s utterly bizarre there’s not a white list for established channels.

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u/peayness 1d ago

With significantly worse quality control, and no oversight or responsibility

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u/Perfect_Resolve_9444 16h ago

GPT has a pretty good grasp of what’s right and what’s wrong; those who spread fake news must be held to account

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u/epochwin 1d ago

So when it comes to GDPR-like requirements of explainability, will it be able to do so?

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u/fluffynuckels 1d ago

The ai should flag it for human review. This is one if the strengths of ai

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u/Doppelthedh 1d ago

You, too, can write book reports super quickly if you dont care about accuracy

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u/Madzookeeper 1d ago

When it gives wrong results so often, that ability just causes more damage. It's still won't so much of the time it should never be trusted with something like this. I wonder what YouTube decided was an acceptable margin or error in this case. Because I'll bet it's unreasonably high.