I need your help.

[txtx@mastodon.social]

@randahl Sent my complaint.

[paul@oldfriends.live]

@randahl oh what fresh hell AI is

[taatm@mathstodon.xyz]

@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’.

[morst@toad.social]

@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!

[frieke72@mastodon.social]

@djembro I've heard of Peertube. (Not dived into that myself)

@randahl

[frieke72@mastodon.social]

@randahl done.
He did use the copyright rapport function himself I hope? (Tried "legal", but that's for the owner of content.)

[om@witter.cz]

@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!

[electropict@mastodon.scot]

@christineburns @randahl

🤔 An additional element of this attack may be that if a significant number of people block (from inside or outside the YT system) an impersonator, that may be interpreted as unwillingess to view similar content i.e. the original being impersonated, downgrading their ranking. Not sure to what degree this would work, though.

[gustodon@mas.to]

@paul It's nightmarish.

[christineburns@mastodon.green]

@electropict @randahl For that to be feasible the algorithm would have to be assuming from the beginning that the content was bogus. I.e. Google would be saying “Oh, this person likes or doesn’t like fake AI slop, hang on whilst I get some more”

[tschekka1982@mastodon.social]

@randahl 10x Done. It looks so real, amazing! ...and terrifying!

[darkpaw@mstdn.social]

@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

[aaa365a@ohai.social]

@randahl Reported on YT for impersonation of someone else. Reason:- “cgi same clothing in each video and spouting nonsense. “

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@randahl Done.

[jcmexplains@hachyderm.io]

@randahl wow. Reported

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@taatm thank you. Did you do so from a computer? Because I could not find that category on the iPhone YouTube app.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@morst The real Paul Warburg is here:

https://youtube.com/@pauljwarburg?si=I2zKXu4-OgKOze1i

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@Frieke72 yes he did, but he wrote a post about YouTube not yet reacting to his complaint.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@darkpaw I am not seeing “Report user” on neither iPad or iPhone. Are you using a web browser on a computer?

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@Frieke72 @djembro as soon as European YouTube alternatives get the monetization right, youtubers like me will be standing in line to join.

But until now, I have not seen any platform that can compete with youtube in this regard, and all youtubers need to pay their bills.