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People have been asking where the line is. - I think a video with a synthetic actor (even when it's cloning a human) is synthetic and should be labeled as such

People have been asking where the line is. - I think a video with a synthetic actor (even when it's cloning a human) is synthetic and should be labeled as such, whatever the provenance of the script - I think a video with a human actor, but an AI-written script could also be labeled. The line is blurrier there for me, since some folks have very elaborate prompts which basically amount to "here's my first draft, make it better". But having a straight-up rule is still good. False positives are better than false negatives here. - And then there's the issue of AI-generated translations (which is what we do at my startup[1] ). I do believe it's fair for viewers to have those tagged as well. And to be able to track provenance to avoid deepfakes. [1] https://www.onetake.ai https://www.onetake.ai

thomastjeffery 3y ago
The line is wherever content creators draw it: > YouTube will...require that creators disclose the use of AI in a video
dheera 3y ago
I think one thing I look forward to is editing my voice to sound different. The words and intonation can be kept, just make me sound like a different person. I hate listening to recordings of myself, and that's literally the only thing stopping me from becoming a Youtube creator. I don't know whether that would be classified as "AI".
gosub100 3y ago
I'm not sure if TTS is included in your first point, or if you meant a fake visual likeness. But I really want to see TTS labelled because it's so good now a lot of people don't know they are listening to a robot (and it's only going to get better). I know a lot of replies would say "well, what's the harm then?" and that's the insidious thing about A.I. is there isn't usually direct harm, but I think people have a right to know they are living in a fake world and be free to opt in if they wish. On many of the fake channels, I see comments praising the fake actor for reading the stolen academic material (and ironically many of these comments are likely fake, too!).
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  Is having a random guy on fiverr read a script without further context significantly less "fake" than TTS?
  - MattRix 3y ago
    Yes.
- Aerroon 3y ago
  The problem is that the label will become meaningless when it's overloaded. If everything that is touched by AI needs to be labeled, then every piece of content will be labeled as AI. If you have a 3 hour recording from Twitch with TTS in the middle, then that would get labeled as AI. Even if they didn't have to, nobody's going to check a 3 hour recording to see that they didn't get a TTS notification. Put a photo from your phone into a video? Edited by AI. Put a video from your phone into the video? Edited by AI. Soon photo editing tools won't even make it obvious that they use AI. Is that "content aware fill" AI? Or is it something else? Will the average person even know?
  - sebastiennight 3y ago
    I think there's a significant difference: - between "grammar- and spellchecking", vs "having ChatGPT write the script" - between "editing your pic with filters", vs "having MidJourney create the pic" - between "translating your video with TTS", vs "having a synthetic clone of you speak a script from scratch" The difference is qualitative rather than quantitative. In each case, one is AI-augmented, the second is AI-generated.

thomastjeffery 3y ago

The line is wherever content creators draw it: > YouTube will...require that creators disclose the use of AI in a video

dheera 3y ago

I think one thing I look forward to is editing my voice to sound different. The words and intonation can be kept, just make me sound like a different person. I hate listening to recordings of myself, and that's literally the only thing stopping me from becoming a Youtube creator. I don't know whether that would be classified as "AI".

gosub100 3y ago

I'm not sure if TTS is included in your first point, or if you meant a fake visual likeness. But I really want to see TTS labelled because it's so good now a lot of people don't know they are listening to a robot (and it's only going to get better). I know a lot of replies would say "well, what's the harm then?" and that's the insidious thing about A.I. is there isn't usually direct harm, but I think people have a right to know they are living in a fake world and be free to opt in if they wish. On many of the fake channels, I see comments praising the fake actor for reading the stolen academic material (and ironically many of these comments are likely fake, too!).

Dylan16807 3y ago
Is having a random guy on fiverr read a script without further context significantly less "fake" than TTS?
- MattRix 3y ago
  Yes.
Aerroon 3y ago
The problem is that the label will become meaningless when it's overloaded. If everything that is touched by AI needs to be labeled, then every piece of content will be labeled as AI. If you have a 3 hour recording from Twitch with TTS in the middle, then that would get labeled as AI. Even if they didn't have to, nobody's going to check a 3 hour recording to see that they didn't get a TTS notification. Put a photo from your phone into a video? Edited by AI. Put a video from your phone into the video? Edited by AI. Soon photo editing tools won't even make it obvious that they use AI. Is that "content aware fill" AI? Or is it something else? Will the average person even know?
- sebastiennight 3y ago
  I think there's a significant difference: - between "grammar- and spellchecking", vs "having ChatGPT write the script" - between "editing your pic with filters", vs "having MidJourney create the pic" - between "translating your video with TTS", vs "having a synthetic clone of you speak a script from scratch" The difference is qualitative rather than quantitative. In each case, one is AI-augmented, the second is AI-generated.