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  • I wish I had this but for every website and media surface
    by thatmf
  • Need the EU, or California or some other large jurisdiction to create a law requiring identifying labels on all AI content
    by mikeweiss
  • Well, AI flags this content so it's an easy target without heuristics - that's why I've started there.
    by masteranza
  • Ironically, if you had this for every website, including GitHub and HN, you wouldn't have seen this HN submission / repository :)
    by embedding-shape
  • I'm more concerned about the stuff that is fraudulent then possibly legit stuff explicitly labelled as AI
    by singpolyma3
  • True, but that's a way harder problem to solve. For me what was important was reducing the noise as much as possible as fast as possible consistently. Youtube algorithms has been pervasive enough that anything that moves the scale down even a little bit was worth the effort.
    by masteranza
  • Can it be used with Google Chrome? Will you consider developing a mobile version in the future? My YouTube feed is also flooded with all kinds of low-quality AI-generated content. Although some videos are well made, there are still far too many low-quality ones. To keep them from affecting my mood, it’s better to hide them all by default
    by dongking
  • I go on YouTube to watch humans talking, nature and music videos and get an insane amount of AI reviews, AI videos, and AI songs. What I find weird is how they end up at the top. Are people actually watching them, which is why they’re ranked so high? Or is the YouTube algorithm just being exploited? Fortunately, there are keywords that still bring back humans, but it’s so annoying.
    by Frannky
  • Me and my inner circle do watch them (even my sister-in-law, unemployed, just started to tinker with)

    Can't speak for them though but when I search smt I don't really care if it is the top youtuber in my country or a random model with fake pictures, I just want to watch it

    by crefiz
  • Take a look at the most viewed videos... It's gross.

    Basically 90% are just crap done by computers (pre AI), targeting preschoolers.

    by Foobar8568
  • Something I've noticed in a couple hobbies on youtube, is that the popular channels are not the ones that show up when I search. Like for cars, there ar 2 particular youtubers who show up all over search results, but amongst the car community you will never hear people talk about watching their videos.
    by zf00002
  • This feels like something YouTube should offer natively. If they already know which videos are labeled as AI-generated, a simple "hide AI-generated content" preference would be really useful.

    Nice little extension though. I like tools that solve one specific annoyance well. And any reason you went with Safari only?

    by jaylau47
  • My pet peeve is the AI generated voices. I absolutely love the cosmology-astrophysics-space stuff. And it can be any crap if it's correct enough and entertaining enough and passive enough that I can fall asleep to it.

    But once I detect that the voiceover is AI generated that shit get instablocked forever. It's an instant put-off. Do all the visuals you want with AI as long as they are reasonable but when a human (AI) voice starts to fuck with the way a word has been presented in a particular context then it just makes me want to hate everything I won't mention any names <cough> elevenlabs.

    by karim79
  • This is especially common in Japan now. I was looking for an audio documentary of the crusades and half of them were done in squeaky anime AI voices
    by shoobiedoo
  • I find it interesting that you were perfectly happy with it, enjoying it even, but it was only at the point you noticed a minor word pronounced incorrectly that you flip to the extreme, hate it and want to block it to never see it again?

    I’ve started calling this “AI Bipolar”, and I find it fascinating. It seems like people are offended that they were “duped” into enjoying AI generated content, but will continue on to the next lower-quality human-made content with all sorts of issues that they will completely forgive solely out of comfort that it is a human doing it.

    by therealpygon
  • Many content creators on YouTube may not have English as their first language, so they turn to AI to do the voice over. The thing is, I'd rather listen to broken English read by a human than an AI voice over. The AI voices are off putting and tiresome. It's somehow hurts my brain less trying to process a Chinese person speak bad English. Alternatively for something like YouTube, add subtitles and just speak your own language is much more comfortable than the AI voice-overs.
    by mrweasel
  • There are tons of human-generated videos on YouTube that aren't worth watching either, and usually can be identified by "screamer" thumbnails and vapid clickbaity titles. I don't think we need to amplify another divisive topic.
    by userbinator
  • I’d love a small local model that detects AI voices and blocks the content.
    by ungreased0675
  • I'm not even sure you'd need AI for that, there are only like 3 voices that are ever used.
    by Suppafly
  • My only concern is that I have seen legit videos by creators on the platform for many years, with the tiny "AI (i)" label below the video. I have seen this even on channels that are not faceless.

    You would think if anyone could get this right, it would be Google/YouTube, but apparently not.

    by consumer451
  • I have seen this even on channels that are not faceless.

    The AI logo doesn't mean "entirely made with AI". It means "significant use of AI detected". If someone uses AI to modify the background of their video (say, to remove a detail) it'll get the label.

    by onion2k
  • This is great. Having the option to choose whether or not to see AI content was the first thing I hoped they'd add a filter for when it was first introduced.

    Just for kicks, I inverted the filter in a TamperMoneky script that only keeps the AI-generated content: https://gist.github.com/SMarioMan/32c959d79035cb421df1c69c06...

    by MarioMan
  • This is great and hope it'll be compatible with more and more browsers.

    This should be done by youtube themselves. It's so simple for them to label AI generated content so people can either look for it or avoid it but they won't do it. I'm not sure how they profit from AI gen videos over regular videos...

    I was looking for a setting to turn off Youtube Shorts but there's no way to do it, it's like that by design, Youtube want to shove those in your face so you click on it, even if by accident. Luckily I found a free app to do it (IOS). I absolutely appreciate the effort people put into fighting these companies back.

    by tartoran
  • Shouldn't their presumably unlimited access to Gemini models enable them to implement things like this quickly and easily?
    by ultrarunner
  • > This is great and hope it'll be compatible with more and more browsers.

    I agree! Just ported it to Firefox, see my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533429

    Definitely gonna use it myself.

    by ssernikk
  • > It's so simple for them to label AI generated content so people can either look for it or avoid it but they won't do it.

    There is a small "AI" tag that shows up below the title when viewing the video. Don't know if it's automatic or self-applied though.

    by Izkata
  • > I was looking for a setting to turn off Youtube Shorts

    I put out shortless [0] for the very same reason...I just hate them. This works only on Safari, but I stopped using the native app altogether a long time ago, so it wasn't that big of a jump for me :)

    [0]: https://shortless.app

    by tatoalo
  • In the mobile app you can go to Settings > Time Management > Daily Limits > Shorts feed limit and set it to 0 minutes. It removes all shorts from your home feed.

    If you click on a short, or the shorts tab you see "you reached your Shorts feed limit".

    And if you click on the subcriptions tab theres only one section of shorts at the top and they don't show up again when you scroll down.

    by NotErnie
  • I love this concept, but use Firefox, so I ported it:

    https://github.com/kacperwyczawski/herbisight (herbisight -> herbicide -> weeds, you know)

    I've just submitted it to AMO for review (in the meantime, you can load extension/ via about:debugging). Will update the repo with the store link once approved!

    by ssernikk
  • Thank you for your work, much appreciated!
    by vrganj