I’ve noticed that lots of videos on social media and on YouTube, specifically the Shorts, have this strange filter on them that makes them look AI generated. Even videos that I’ve seen before without the filter and know are authentic because they were created before people could make realistic AI videos.
Do you think this is intentionally done by content creators and/or the companies themselves to make AI content more easily accepted?
I think the platforms enable an AI filter, and the people who spam those videos use it.
The platforms want people to use the filter, because it erodes the uncanny valley that biases people against AI. And likely boost videos who used the filter.
They can’t make AI videos look real, so they make real videos look like AI.
But the content creators are just chasing money, the platforms are pushing the AI, because they want to cut out content creators and only use AI (because they control it).
Google adds that filter automatically. You have to switch it off. A lot of people don’t know this.
I believe your statement here is probably correct, but I struggle to comprehend the absolute delusion that Google has, thinking that they can take a site the size of YouTube, and decide to remove the core aspect of what makes that site what it is, and try to replace it out with AI. It won’t work and will kill the platform first.
Sounds about right. Glad I’m not crazy.