Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
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Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
@notjustbikes GenAI doing best what it was built from: theft, plagiarism & fraud
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@remove_huilo @grepe @jo @notjustbikes And I don't know how anyone can say we've overcome that challenge. It's right now being leveraged in several countries to force massive surveillance on everyone. AI could go away and we'd still have that shit.
vOv
You do have to watch out for grumpy-old-man-syndrome as you age, but the enshitification of everything is real and *the algorithms* and AI have very much been a huge part of ruining it all.
@crazyeddie @remove_huilo @jo @notjustbikes the very fact that we are talking about it on fedi rather than on facebook or reddit means that we are very much at least looking for a solution to that social media thing and that we have something that is at least first attempt to overcome it. is it perfect or does it mean the problems youbare talking about don't exist? no!
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@crazyeddie @remove_huilo @jo @notjustbikes the very fact that we are talking about it on fedi rather than on facebook or reddit means that we are very much at least looking for a solution to that social media thing and that we have something that is at least first attempt to overcome it. is it perfect or does it mean the problems youbare talking about don't exist? no!
@grepe @remove_huilo @jo @notjustbikes Attempting to come up with solutions isn't having solved it.
But whatever.
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@crazyeddie @remove_huilo @jo @notjustbikes the very fact that we are talking about it on fedi rather than on facebook or reddit means that we are very much at least looking for a solution to that social media thing and that we have something that is at least first attempt to overcome it. is it perfect or does it mean the problems youbare talking about don't exist? no!
@grepe @remove_huilo @jo @notjustbikes Attempting to come up with solutions isn't having solved the problem.
vOv
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@notjustbikes Often it feels like a never ending battle, but extensions like https://aisloplist.com/
atleast make an attempt to hide the slop videos while browsing youtube.(i'm one of the reviewers of slop submissions through that extension)
@thibaultmol It's fine for the users but unfortunately doesn't solve the problem for authors who do the original content that is stolen by AI-fakes.
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The video is offline because I sent them a copyright takedown, but here's a segment of it. Just vapid, useless slop.
YouTube is becoming flooded with this garbage and it's actively making the platform less viable for real creators to make real content.
@notjustbikes That was 20 seconds of torture.
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@grepe @jo @notjustbikes social media was, mostly, a mistake.
@remove_huilo Social media existed already in the early 1990s with mailinglists, chats, forums and even video. And it was great!
I think that you mean the algorithm-driven big and centralised social media platforms?
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Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
@notjustbikes you think yaropeon fire truck sirens are better than GLORIOUS FEDERAL SIGNAL Q-SIRENS so whatever nerd
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The video is offline because I sent them a copyright takedown, but here's a segment of it. Just vapid, useless slop.
YouTube is becoming flooded with this garbage and it's actively making the platform less viable for real creators to make real content.
@notjustbikes I'm pretty sure that's Google Notebook . Either way, clear theft.
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Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
@notjustbikes It's a horror. Do you see any possibilities to act against the slop?
In the comments people recommend alternatives. Unfortunately, that's only for the users and doesn't prevent from steeling.
I had the same problem with my podcast: sometimes the audience consisted of more scraping bots than people. Young people told me that they could transfer my podcast into an AI video on youtube with ease! Or use a transcript with artificial voices. They could even scrape my voice for a very -
@thibaultmol It's fine for the users but unfortunately doesn't solve the problem for authors who do the original content that is stolen by AI-fakes.
@NatureMC @notjustbikes oh yeah no, def not
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@notjustbikes It's a horror. Do you see any possibilities to act against the slop?
In the comments people recommend alternatives. Unfortunately, that's only for the users and doesn't prevent from steeling.
I had the same problem with my podcast: sometimes the audience consisted of more scraping bots than people. Young people told me that they could transfer my podcast into an AI video on youtube with ease! Or use a transcript with artificial voices. They could even scrape my voice for a very@notjustbikes different product. In most cases, I would never hear about it.
It doesn't help to place content on "good" alternatives. The scrapers scrape the whole internet, every private website.
Result for me: A break. I don't find the energy to work so hard on my topics.
At the moment I blog on a site which is at least protected against the legal scrapers.
We do need tough laws and regulations. -
Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
I'm sorry you are having to go through this. I've followed you on YouTube forever now and your content shines with the effort and care you put into your work. It's BS to see it ripped off so carelessly.
(Aside: holy crap, you're here on Mastodon! Yay!
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@elle The problem are not so much the "legal" scraping bots (the official stuff from the big corporations) but all the illegal scrapers coming not only from the USA.
I'm on a blogging platform that fights the legal ones ... but the criminals develop new ways to scrape in a crazy speed. And they develop crashing poisoning tool, too. It's a race you nearly can't win. -
Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
David Pakmann, the political commentor, posted a video just recently remarking on AI slop that quite well mimics his voice speech pattern. The voice that’s reading some script does sound an awful lot like him. The face is something different but it’s fairly realistic imitating somebody doing a podcast or something of that nature.
It is a gigantic mess that will get worse. It bags for some kind of counter measure
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Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
Don't forget that YouTube (aka. Google aka. Alphabet) is complicit in this. They know it is happening, they allow it to continue.
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@notjustbikes Don't forget to mention the alternative for watching your videos:
https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes
Alternatives for youtube exist and are often far superior. Nebula is a lot cheaper than youtube and completely free of ads, shorts, algorithmic feeds, user tracking and dark patterns. No bullshit, just content and direct support for your favourite creator.
@burne @notjustbikes If you want to shill some platform then go ahead, but you should be outright lying about it.
Nebula isn't even a functioning website, it's just a "Sign up now" page. If I'm not going to post something on a website then I'm not going to sign up.
YouTube works without signing up, and it's free. Nebula is therefore not "a lot cheaper than youtube". Zero is cheaper than any non-zero amount. As for the rest of your sales-pitch, there's only ads on youtube if you don't know how to install ublock+blocktube+sponsorblock or newpipe on a mobile device.
If there's any actual advantage to that sign up page your shilling then say so, don't just make stuff up.
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Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
@notjustbikes Youtube now REALLY flooded with short AI films. Stopped watching them in the hope it would stop suggesting them.
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@thibaultmol
Thanks for the tip. Looks great!
IMHO it should be in Youtubes own interest to block pure AI slop. If the platform becomes known to be flooded with slop, people will inevitably turn away and that means less revenue for them.
@notjustbikes@bike4climate @thibaultmol @notjustbikes I believe you're wrong.
Blocking "AI" slop is clearly not in YouTube's interest.
"YouTube Revenue for Full-Year 2025 Topped $60 Billion, Making Video Platform Bigger Than Netflix"
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-2025-total-revenue-ads-subscriptions-alphabet-earnings-1236652260/If yt wanted to stop the flood of slop then they would have done that already. Someone upstairs ran the numbers and decided that oh yeah all this slop increases shareholder value so we're just going to ignore it.
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Here's the latest AI slop creator ripping off my content.
This time they ran my script through an AI "podcast" generator (likely the free one by Adobe) and put it under the footage from my latest video.
When I make my videos, I spend hours travelling and filming on-location to get real footage that can't be found anywhere else.
Then these AI slop creators steal it and release it as their own.
About 90% of my exposure to "AI" these days is just slop farms ripping me off.
@notjustbikes Luckily the thumbnails are so bad, most smart people will recognize and avoid this shit.
Unfortunately, those who are unaware may likely even recommend those slop channels to you because they think they are helpful…
