I need your help.
My fellow YouTuber Paul Warburg has been AI cloned by a new YouTube channel which is trying to make a profit off his visual identity using an AI version of him.
Please help me kill the bot by reporting one or more videos on this channel:
https://youtube.com/@begetayebnoyaceso7180
Use the report button underneath a video and choose the category "hateful or abusive content", and write "Illegal AI clone of the Paul Warburg channel".
@randahl I gave it my best shot .
@randahl reported, thanks!
@randahl but does google/youtube really cares? it's making money either way. it really surprises me that youtube is still a thing. while i understand the moneytization aspect, truth is, in the meantime, youtubers are both working and getting paid by a fascism supporting corporation... it will come down to us to be creative and refuse this state of affairs.
#nogoogle #boycott
Did you also inform Paul Warburg?
I stumbled across some fake Glenn Kirschner channels about 3 weeks ago and wrote to Kirschner (via bsky)
I think this is the fastest possibility, to inform the real people. They need to take action too.
Nonetheless I reported the fake Paul Warburg now too.
@randahl Reported I’d gladly watch him
on peertube tough
Btw, a new trend as there are more channels doing so lately.
These channels often use hyper-realistic AI news anchors to report on fabricated major news events or promote scams, exploiting public trust
Saw one with Robert de Niro, Arnold Schwarzenegger and seen more…
Very worrying developments…
@randahl Reported on YT for impersonation of someone else. Reason:- “cgi same clothing in each video and spouting nonsense. “
@randahl Report the user.
Go to the channel itself, then click "more", then the "Report user" button. Choose "Report user" from the list that appears, then choose "Impersonation" and enter the YT url its impersonating: https://www.youtube.com/@PaulJWarburg
@randahl 10x Done. It looks so real, amazing! ...and terrifying!
@randahl
Youtube just showed me fake Yanis Varoufakis the other day - not that I’d watch him, since the Russian invasion - and being unprepared it took me a while to realise that it wasn’t the person reading some weird press release but an AI clickbaity impersonation.
We need to escape those crap suggesting algorithms!
@randahl
Please tell me the name or link me to Paul’s real channel! I want to turn that channel in for impersonation! Good looking out, bro.
Also, I want to subscribe to Paul’s real channel at your recommendation!
@randahl
Thank you for doing this. We need to protect creators. I follow him and am happy to act on it. I have reported it as ‘impersonation’.
@randahl oh what fresh hell AI is
@randahl Sent my complaint.
@randahl the YouTube trash fire is out of control. Paul is the latest in a number of vloggers on that cursed platform being exploited by AI slopmongers
https://coales.co/@msh/115815674544753933
I don't even trust the view or engagement numbers either at this point. Literally most of the new content is slop, and more and more viewers and comments are bots and YouTube just doesn't care their platform is basically a wasteland now. It totally feels like trying to use Yahoo Chat rooms in the early 2000s.
How much longer is this sustainable? I really feel bad for creators who have become dependent on YouTube for their livelihood.
@randahl I wonder if the prompt to generate all of these said "Start with 'Everyone's talking about'" 😊
In any case though, this is a worrying development. This flooding the zone -type propaganda probably even makes commercial sense. The youtube algorithm probably funnels users to these deepfake channels free of charge!
@randahl
Done. That’s been happening to a couple of other folks I follow. I hope some European sovereign video platform arises as an alternative and I hope it has strict prohibitions against AI impersonation of human beings.
@randahl Reported for impersonation. I also subscribed to Paul’s channel rather than simply relying on the algorithm to push new content to me. The worrying thing about having to search for the impersonator to report it is that it may now taint the k8nd of content pushed to me. It’s a game of whack-a-mole to block fake news peddlers as it is!
Done! Hope this is resolved for Paul!
It’s happening a lot - Yanis Varoufakis has had similar …
@randahl
I reported it as requested. 🫡
My question is: but is this really illegal in the US? 🤔
Their laws are different from ours.
@elCelio pretty sure YouTube has a strong incentive to remove the channel once they become aware, no matter the state of the legal issue.
@randahl @elCelio I respect your position, but I suspect a deeper anaysis would reveal that the incentives favour a total pivot to generative AI content, and I fear the tipping point is far closer than we think. I am terribly ignorant, tho wide strokes and public information appear to paint a picture of current and past media harvest to supplant with purchased narrative and low-risk scam. It's burning hot at both ends of the fuze. Not enuf room to expound upon, thank goodness, eh? ;)
@iams I am sure, you are right, that AI content will find a place in our daily lives. But there is a great difference between reporting facts and creatively telling a story.
@randahl This is also deep inside the uncanny valley....
