I need your help.

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@randahl
I reported it as requested. 🫡

My question is: but is this really illegal in the US? 🤔
Their laws are different from ours.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@elCelio pretty sure YouTube has a strong incentive to remove the channel once they become aware, no matter the state of the legal issue.

[obscure_rebel@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Done! Hope this is resolved for Paul!

It’s happening a lot - Yanis Varoufakis has had similar …

[mirano@mastodon.social]

@randahl Done.

[ton@m.tzyl.eu]

@randahl done

[thierry_van_kerm@mastodon.social]

@randahl done

[sibrosan@mastodon.social]

@elCelio @randahl

Or next to the channel description go to "more...". In the popup window there is the option to report the user. The applicable option is right there.

[jonas175@mastodon.nu]

@randahl Done!

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@sibrosan @randahl

Done! 👍

[christineburns@mastodon.green]

@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!

[ryanvher@mastodon.social]

@randahl done.

[elcelio@mastodon.uno]

@sibrosan @randahl

I was thinking: what if a channel steals images and audio not from another Yotoube channel, but from another site? 🤔

How can a person defend their identity?

[djembro@universeodon.com]

@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.

[iams@mastodon.social]

@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? ;)

[andyrockt@mastodon.social]

@randahl Done!

[elsvanosch@mastodon.social]

@randahl Done!

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@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!

[msh@coales.co]

@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.

[theswiv@hear-me.social]

@randahl done

[danielgibert@mastodon.online]

@randahl Done