YouTube Crackdowns on AI-Generated Fake Movie Trailers (pocket-lint.com) 36
YouTube has suspended ad revenue for two additional channels -- Screen Trailers and Royal Trailer -- as part of an ongoing effort to combat fake movie trailers using AI-generated content. These channels, alternative accounts of previously demonetized Screen Culture and KH Studio, splice actual movie footage with AI-generated material, often accumulating millions of views.
The action follows a recent Deadline investigation revealing Hollywood studios had requested YouTube redirect revenue from these misleading videos. Despite losing monetization, Screen Culture, which has 1.42 million subscribers, continues uploading content including a recent "Trailer 2 concept" for James Gunn's upcoming Superman film.
The action follows a recent Deadline investigation revealing Hollywood studios had requested YouTube redirect revenue from these misleading videos. Despite losing monetization, Screen Culture, which has 1.42 million subscribers, continues uploading content including a recent "Trailer 2 concept" for James Gunn's upcoming Superman film.
I really f*cking hate those things... (Score:2)
The worst part is that google thinks I actually like fake trailers since I was tricked into clicking a few, now it's like all I see in the feed, and I can't get rid of them...
Re:I really f*cking hate those things... (Score:5, Interesting)
Google doesn't care what you like, nor does it want to help you find something. It just wants to get you to click on more and more stuff.
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All they want to push ads, so if you click they can serve more ads.
Re:I really f*cking hate those things... (Score:5, Informative)
2. Click on three dot menu beneath video
3. Select "Don't recommend channel" option
4. Rinse and repeat
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This works. So does "Not Interested," eventually, and works on similar videos from other channels. Eventually.
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Except that relies on AI generated trailer content being clearly identified as AI generated trailer content. Maybe people want to see trailers without blocking AI slop, in which case this would not achieve what they want because Youtube's algorithm just isn't anywhere near as smart as you give it credit for. It's theme based, and AI isn't a theme.
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You can also, in most cases, use the 'back' button on your browser after clicking on something, then use the 'Don't recommend channel' option. It doesn't aways work, sometimes the reccomendations refresh. I haven't tested, but I think this might be down to the amount of time it takes you to realise the video you clicked on is shit. So the quicker you realise this the better. There should really be the option available while watching a video as well, but whoever said that Google were good at UIs?
On quite a f
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I don't like fan-made speculative trailers either, but apparently there's some folks who do. YouTube's view counter has an engagement threshold that must be met before a unique streaming instance counts as a "view", so the count isn't likely to entirely consist of people who were tricked into watching bogus trailers.
Although, as the popularity of TikTok has proven, never underestimate people's ability to keep watching something even though it's frustratingly stupid.
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is that why they keep adding random things that appear in my home and subs menus that i don't even mouse over to my watch history, as complete views?
Half joking.
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Although, as the popularity of TikTok has proven, never underestimate people's ability to keep watching something even though it's frustratingly stupid.
In Tik Tok's case, people keep watching because it's frustratingly stupid. Youtube has some of that, too, but not nearly as much.
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There's a little thing on a video you can click to say you're not interested in a video that's showing up in your feed.
You can also block the whole channel but I'd recommend using the "not interested" thing and training your algorithm a bit. Eventually it'll learn that you don't want the AI stuff.
Ironic that you're training an AI to keep you away from AI, but that's the situation we're in these days.
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Sure, but the options they give you don't include "fake trailers".
Of course I'm interested in the movie, I'm interested in the other aspects, I don't want Google to filter out any of those things.
I'm just not interested in fake crap created by someone trying to monetize interested in the film, but that's never an option that shows up as a filter.
Next ... (Score:2)
Get rid of all the sex bots in the comments already. They are so obvious in nature and easy to spot. Makes me think Google leaves them alone on purpose.
Re: Next ... (Score:5, Informative)
Nah, get rid of the financial advisors dominating the comments with fake back and forth conversations between bots, always culminating in some specific person to call.
So the trick is find a whole bunch of channels (Score:2)
Re: So the trick is find a whole bunch of channels (Score:4, Funny)
Try learning about Sumeria without getting pulled into some crazy ancient aliens conspiracy.
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Baghdad battery as presented by Baghdad Bob.
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If the channel is clearly listed as fiction and the AI part is a voice robot reading from a human made script then there are some acceptable channels. The voice robots are at least getting better, but they fail in some cases where they don't know how to pronounce some words, especially when there are the same spelling of the word with two different meanings or handling acronyms properly.
The AI generated fiction - well, you soon learn to figure that one out. Can start pretty OK, but after a few minutes it's
Spam then (Score:2)
I reported every single one I found for being Spam (even many I never watched). Eventually, they stopped coming up in my feed.
Fuck Google. (Score:2)
I reported every single one I found for being Spam (even many I never watched). Eventually, they stopped coming up in my feed.
Funny how that doesn't work with the AI slop and outright scams in their adverts and "sponsored videos". And isn't it funny how they don't use that fancy content matching algorithm to spot when scammers change identities but use the exact same video?
I swear, if I hear Jingle Bells [youtube.com] one more time...
Slash and burn (Score:2)
What is the difference... (Score:2)
We used to.. (Score:2)
...call it fan-fiction.
Well that's too bad. (Score:2)
Forget trailers (Score:2)
The days are coming when no one will make movies anymore, but will instead type a prompt into a movie service, and an AI will generate an entire film in realtime.
Think, "NetAI, play me a movie in which the lead character is a big city powerful attorney who returns to her home town at Christmas and reluctantly falls in love with the boy she rejected in high school, who has since become independently wealthy running a winery."