In general, this act of resistance welcome and whose details are largely documented by the youtuber in his video is part of a movement that fights against scrapers (information of information extraction from websites in particular) of artificial intelligence.
IA vs creativity
Because of new technologies, the means to make money quickly and through the work of others were increased tenfold. The temptation is therefore increasingly large, and several internet users give in, redoubled with imagination to always panic the counter of the likes.
On Tik-Tok first, the “clips”, extracts taken from YouTube videos mounted and put to music, illustrate the wildest fantasies of Internet users (secret romances, sincere friendships, or a simple edit on a personality). On YouTube, there are also faceless channels, sometimes created by creators of content wishing to preserve their anonymity, sometimes automated by tools based on AI.
Slop, the 21st century gangrene
If it turns out that these channels are most of the time a way for their creator to earn a maximum of money in a minimum of time and effort, they are also a real problem for the “real” creators of content , which have several reasons to criticize this practice.
We are talking about “slop” here, a term that makes “Reference to poor quality content, false news or false videos and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI), which we find on social networks, in art or literature and, more and more , in research results ”, According to a definition of the Italian site NSS Magazine.
“Poison” the AI
Problem: as Ars Technica stipulates, these channels happen to steal the integrated transcription files and then do them “Go through AI synthesizers to generate their own instant copies”. To guard against it, the Youtuber F4MI (175,000 subscribers) published a video where she explains how she manages to “poison” the IA synthesizers who try to steal its content.
His method? The format of subtitles. ASS which makes it possible to support sophisticated functionalities such as the positioning of the text, its color etc … These features make it possible to confuse the AI, without affecting the content and the subtitles for humans.
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