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I have a channel and have already pledged to make it 100% AI free in the following sense: I don't use AI tools to generate any content, period. I put a badge on

I have a channel and have already pledged to make it 100% AI free in the following sense: I don't use AI tools to generate any content, period. I put a badge on my channel as well that says "100% AI Free". More specifically it means: no generative video AI, no AI to write scripts, no AI period. To ** with AI.

WanderPanda 3y ago
No computational photography/videography?
- vouaobrasil 3y ago
  Not for creative tasks. My photography is fairly low-tech. Hardly any AI. Of course, if some machine learning algorithms are used to design my camera or stabilize my video, well I can't avoid that. But I am avoiding AI for any creative tasks including denoise AI, etc. (I don't use denoise AI or ANY phones.)
hedora 3y ago
So, how do you deal with the ML algorithms between your camera CCD and the disk? There’s all sorts of stuff that converts from raw to rgb, motion compensation in the compressor, etc. The audio path is just as bad, but more fundamentally, how did you opt out of Google’s recommendation AI, and their practice of harvesting view information for ad targeting? Similarly, can you disable their close captioning stuff, and prevent them from using your videos for training?
- vouaobrasil 3y ago
  Hi. I am talking about the fundamental creative aspect of MY role in making videos. So, generative AI. I am NOT concerned with the typical red herring of defining AI precisely. I am talking about taking a hard and cautious stance towards it, which is far more societally useful than trying to define it mathematically. So, like I said, I avoid using AI myself for generative, creative tasks. By the way, the sensor is CMOS and not CCD.
  - hedora 3y ago
    But, you're OK using it for content distribution, promotion, ad targeting, and surveilling your audience? Some of that is still stuff you do, but it's stuff you probably do off camera. It's an extremely fine line.
    - vouaobrasil 3y ago
      Not exactly ok. I am looking for ways to completely get off Google because of its recent developments. Yes, it is a fine line, but that does not mean it's better just to bury my head in the sand and ignore it rather than challenge it like some many technologists do.
Lerc 3y ago
This leads to a tar pit of 'What is AI?' It's fairly clear that none of the current batch of AIs have a sense of awareness. So obviously that isn't the threshold that you are using, How about smart-resize, noise-removal, spell-checking, Upload time estimation?
- vouaobrasil 3y ago
  I disagree. Like I said to the other poster, I am not concerned with the precise definition of AI, but rather not using it for writing scripts, generative photos or video, etc. I have clarified this on my channel but the meaning is clear enough: no AI for any creative tasks.

WanderPanda 3y ago

No computational photography/videography?

vouaobrasil 3y ago
Not for creative tasks. My photography is fairly low-tech. Hardly any AI. Of course, if some machine learning algorithms are used to design my camera or stabilize my video, well I can't avoid that. But I am avoiding AI for any creative tasks including denoise AI, etc. (I don't use denoise AI or ANY phones.)

hedora 3y ago

So, how do you deal with the ML algorithms between your camera CCD and the disk? There’s all sorts of stuff that converts from raw to rgb, motion compensation in the compressor, etc. The audio path is just as bad, but more fundamentally, how did you opt out of Google’s recommendation AI, and their practice of harvesting view information for ad targeting? Similarly, can you disable their close captioning stuff, and prevent them from using your videos for training?

vouaobrasil 3y ago
Hi. I am talking about the fundamental creative aspect of MY role in making videos. So, generative AI. I am NOT concerned with the typical red herring of defining AI precisely. I am talking about taking a hard and cautious stance towards it, which is far more societally useful than trying to define it mathematically. So, like I said, I avoid using AI myself for generative, creative tasks. By the way, the sensor is CMOS and not CCD.
- hedora 3y ago
  But, you're OK using it for content distribution, promotion, ad targeting, and surveilling your audience? Some of that is still stuff you do, but it's stuff you probably do off camera. It's an extremely fine line.
  - vouaobrasil 3y ago
    Not exactly ok. I am looking for ways to completely get off Google because of its recent developments. Yes, it is a fine line, but that does not mean it's better just to bury my head in the sand and ignore it rather than challenge it like some many technologists do.

Lerc 3y ago

This leads to a tar pit of 'What is AI?' It's fairly clear that none of the current batch of AIs have a sense of awareness. So obviously that isn't the threshold that you are using, How about smart-resize, noise-removal, spell-checking, Upload time estimation?

vouaobrasil 3y ago
I disagree. Like I said to the other poster, I am not concerned with the precise definition of AI, but rather not using it for writing scripts, generative photos or video, etc. I have clarified this on my channel but the meaning is clear enough: no AI for any creative tasks.