I got the above prompt while scrolling YouTube on my phone — bit laid up in bed due heavily inflamed right leg — and it’s the first time I have seen such.
Does this video feel like low-quality AI? Then results from not-at-all to extremely-likely.
Which makes me wonder if I’m being manipulated.
I do often tell YouTube not to recommend videos and channels that are obvious AI. Not always. Just in principle. YouTube’s floodgate recommendation system requires that. Watch one AI fake trailer and you will never know which movies are actually being released ever again.
Alerting me to the concept of AIness while promoting a 35min video about boardgame rulebooks from a creator I’ve never watched before, though? It feels weirdly manipulative…
(a) …like a little seed of doubt about what is or isn’t AI.
(b) …like a prompt to get me to watch a boardgame video after generally ignoring them for the past couple of years.
I watch a lot of solo rpg stuff, and I think this convinces YouTube, incorrectly, that I want broader tabletop slop in as addictive a manner as possible. Way too much D&D drama whinging and far too much boardgame critical theory about edge cases.
Because of that prompt, I was tricked into watching 5 minutes of a video I would have outright skipped, otherwise.
Hmmmmm.
BTW, posted this from my phone to try it out.