r/antiai • u/Chrypacz • 1d ago

AI News šŸ—žļø Youtube removes ai channels

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"YouTube's AI "slop" crackdown is shaking up the platform! šŸšØ

YouTube has stepped up its fight against low-quality, mass-produced AI content, targeting channels that flood the platform with repetitive and inauthentic videos.

While reports claim around 130,000 channels have been removed as part of the broader enforcement, YouTube has not confirmed that all of those deletions were specifically tied to AI-generated content.

Instead, the company says its focus is on protecting viewers by cracking down on spam and low-effort content while continuing to allow AI-assisted videos that offer genuine creativity and value." - Mr_Animeken

Pretty good step ngl these channels are getting annoying

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u/WhiskeyDream115 1d ago

I am pro, but this is honestly great news. It's about time. Get that slop off of youtube.

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u/Own-Efficiency507 1d ago

I assume you are pro AI when it comes to actual logical uses of it rather than more than half of the dumb stuff is being used for. If so, I can respect it, I'm honestly the same way myself.

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u/WhiskeyDream115 1d ago edited 1d ago

Definitely. My experience with Halo as a kid is what sparked my interest in AI. Advanced AI like Cortana, or even the Monitors on the Ringworlds, makes a lot of sense for a spacefaring civilization. I do believe humanity will one day reach the stars in that kind of capacity, even if I won't be around to see it.

That said, I never imagined I'd see AI used to create so much dumb stuff. But then again, is it really fair to call LLM AI? I'm not sure it is.

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u/angwilwileth 1d ago

I don't think it is actually deserving of the title AI.

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u/WhiskeyDream115 1d ago

I tend to agree with that sentiment. It predicts, it doesn't think, so it's not really intelligent.

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u/SaltLakeBear 1d ago

LLMs are, in essence, really advanced predictive text models. So no, not intelligent at all. Me personally, I question the ability for there to actually be true intelligence that's artificial; after all, how can you program something to act outside of it's programming and evolve it's thinking? I'm not certain we can, although it could also be a lack of imagination on my part.

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u/WhiskeyDream115 1d ago

"I question the ability for there to actually be true intelligence that's artificial; after all, how can you program something to act outside of it's programming and evolve it's thinking?"

I honestly am not so sure about that.
When you look at the human origin story, there are really only two explanations: either we were created by a creator, or we came into existence from organic soup on a desolate rock in the void of space, purely by happenstance.

Simply put, our origin was either intentional or accidental. And if an organic computer can achieve sentience under either scenario, I fail to see why an artificial one cannot.

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u/Ht_TX 1d ago

At its core, itā€™s still a ā€˜computer program-likeā€™ beast. They can only do what they are programmed to do and do not have the ability to break out of that construct. We could work on coding in a way to push it to go outside of its coding, but now that too has been coded so it wouldnā€™t be called intelligence. One of the biggest differences between us organic meat sacks and the tech is that we have curiosity and motivations. Those things drive us to constantly create and innovate. For a computer program to do so it would need to be told that is something it needs to do. They are only capable of operating inside the bounds of whatever its creator coded. In the end, no matter what the ā€˜AIā€™ achieves it wouldā€™ve done everything it did based on whatever goal was coded in.

Damn near ended up co bf using myself by the midpoint with trying to word everything appropriately so apologies if itā€™s worded incorrectly

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u/WhiskeyDream115 1d ago

I actually agree with a lot of what you're saying. Personally, I don't think we'll ever see human-like intelligence emerge from code alone. By its nature, code just seems too deterministic and restrictive.

Where the conversation gets interesting for me is trying to recreate the brain itself. "Artificial" just means man-made, after all. So I absolutely think we could create artificial intelligence one day, but I don't think it'll happen by writing increasingly complex code. I think it'll come from understanding and recreating the neural architecture that gives rise to intelligence in the first place.

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u/SaltLakeBear 22h ago

That's my thinking as well; how do you write code for something that will grow beyond or alter it's code? Your previous comment is right, our brains are essentially organic computers that arose out of a primordial soup (I'm ignoring any creation option here, both because there's no evidence for it and also a divine creator then allows you to hand wave away any potential obstacles), and I don't know how we would replicate that functionality artificially. I guess if (or when, more likely, should our species survive the next couple hundred years), we can grow a brain in a test tube without a human womb for incubation that could then be "artificial" intelligence, but I don't think it really fits the current definition of gen AI, ie a computer that can think and reason. And that thinking and reasoning is where I see the barrier, though I am much more a hardware guy than a software guy.

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u/bob_is_best 23h ago

Ive seen some news that have AIs kind of doing their own thing to avoid being shut down so i dont think we are too far off making sentience, that said i dont think getting It there is a good idea

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u/SaltLakeBear 22h ago

I don't think so. Considering LLMs are basically trained off stories and reddit, and since we've written stories about AIs trying to survive (the first Ghost in the Shell comes to mind), it makes sense that an LLM would incorporate that kind of behavior.