[sheept]

a reliable giveaway for AI generated videos is just a quick glance at the account's post history—the videos will look frequent, repetitive, and lack a consistent subject/background—and that's not something that'll go away when AI videos get better

[eru]

> [...] and lack a consistent subject/background—and that's not something that'll go away when AI videos get better

Why not? Surely you can ask your friendly neighbourhood AI to run a consistent channel for you?

[sheept]

AI is capable of consistent characters now, yes, but the platforms themselves provide little incentive to. TikTok/Instagram Reels are designed to serve recommendations, not a user-curated feed of people you follow, so consistency is not needed for virality

[cortesoft]

Or they are reposting other people's content

[vitaflo]

Sort by oldest. If the videos go back more than 3 years watch an old one. So many times the person narrating the old vids is nothing like the new vids and a dead ringer for AI. If the account is less than a year old, 100% AI.

[grugagag]

New AI narration is a dead giveaway to us but many people can’t tell they’re not listening to a human. It is very concerning.

[zahlman]

How can they look repetitive while being inconsistent? Do you mean in terms of presentation / "editing" style?

[phire]

I actually avoid most YouTube channels that upload too frequently. Especially with consistent schedules.

Even if I'm 100% certain it's not AI slop, it's still a very strong indicator that the videos are some kind of slop.

[grugagag]

Content farms, whether AI generated or not their incentive is to pump out low quality high output. Most of their content even it involves a human narrator are heavily packed with AI generated media.

[fallinditch]

A giveaway for detecting AI-generated text is the use of em-dashes, as noted in op - you are caught bang to rights!

[nicbou]

Some keyboards and operating systems — iOS is one of them — convert two dashes into an emdash.

[Sharlin]

And macOS, at least my keyboard layout, has both en and em dashes easily typeable with Alt+- and Alt+Shift+- respectively.

[JoeJonathan]

I use emdashes and endashes all the time—but maybe that's because I'm an academic?

[Sharlin]

I use them – well, mostly en dashes because that's the custom where I'm from – because I'm a bit of a typography nerd and have grown to dislike the barrenness of ASCII.

[Nevermark]

I can’t wait for my keyboard to start auto-completing “Your” with “are absolutely right!”

[nicbou]

In this case Apple has cared about typography since its very beginning. Steve Jobs obsessed over it. The OS also replaces simple quotes with fancier ones.

I do the same on my websites. It's embedded into my static site generator.

Very related: https://practicaltypography.com/

[Nevermark]

Agreed that is useful, despite the unintended consequences of dash meddling.

[lucumo]

Not long ago, a statistical study found that AI almost always has an 'e' in its output. It is a firm indicator of AI slop. If you catch a post with an 'e', pay it no mind: it's probably AI.

Uh-oh. Caught you. Bang to rights! That post is firmly AI. Bad. Nobody should mind your robot posts.

[eks391]

I'm incredibly impressed that you managed to make that whole message without a single usage of the most frequently used letter, except in your quotations.

[zahlman]

Such omission is a hobby of many WWW folk. I can, in fact, think back to finding a community on R*ddit known as "AVoid5", which had this trial as its main point.

Down with that foul fifth glyph! Down, I say!

[hardlianotion]

second vowel actually.

[agoodusername63]

Bet they asked an AI to make the bit work /s

[lucumo]

:-D

I did ask G'mini for synonyms. And to do a cursory count of e's in my post. Just as a 2nd opinion. It found only glyphs with quotation marks around it. It graciously put forward a proxy for that: "the fifth letter".

It's not oft that you run into such alluring confirmation of your point.

[throwaway290]

I'm having my thumbs-up back >:(

My first post took around 6 min & a dictionary. This post took 3. It's a quick skill.

No LLMs. Ctrl+f shows you all your 'e's without switching away from this tab. (And why count it? How many is not important, you can simply look if any occur and that's it)

[PurelyApplied]

I apprEciatE your dEdication to ExclusivEly using 'e' in quotEd rEfErEncE, but not in thE rEst of your clEarly human-authorEd tExt.

I rEgrEt that I havE not donE thE samE, but plEase accEpt bad formatting as a countErpoint.

[throwaway290]

Finally a human in this forum. Many moons did I long for this contact.

(Assuming you did actually hand craft that I thumbs-up both your humor and industry good sir)

[mmarq]

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47342

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Disparition_(roman)

[Terr_]

nice try but u used caps and punctuation lol bot /s

[sqquima]

My AI generator loves to write ergo, concordantly, and vis-a-vis.