I need your help.

[randahl@mastodon.social]

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".

[robcinos@hachyderm.io]

@randahl Not Paul Warburg too! There are already so many AI ripoff channels. YouTube needs to start actually addressing this.

[masek@infosec.exchange]

@randahl Done!

[masek@infosec.exchange]

@randahl This is also deep inside the uncanny valley....

[randahl@mastodon.social]

@robcinos I suppose they will address this by introducing some new copyright detraction, but detecting the AI ripoffs is probably hard to do automatically.

[teacherrogueone@bildung.social]

@randahl Done!

[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? ;)