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"Deepfake Yanis Varoufakis Videos Are Flooding YouTube": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1ZewbOd2JQ

There are already a lot of impersonating AI-Slop videos appearing, not just faking Yanis Varoufakis, but also many other political commentators. It's hard to find the real videos by now.

I tried to flag these videos, but the process of doing so is so cumbersome that I finally abstained from it. AI-Slop is slowly destroying everything: books, youtube, education, in the end everything that is data driven... Where it could be useful, e.g. high quality video translation, it fails utterly.

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gbrindisi|2 months ago

I noticed that too and it’s kinda scary. Soon we will have the opposite of canceling, where the target will be deepfaked to say everything and its opposite to nullify their signal to noise ratio.

throwaway_dang|1 month ago

The AI slop is real; I don't think Yanis has a YT channel besides [DIEM25](https://www.youtube.com/@DiEM25official)

mark_l_watson|2 months ago

Yeah, I hate that also. I just subscribed to Yanis Varoufakis‘s official feed and installed a Safari extension to block everything on YT not in my subscriptions. I think this will work out: use the YouTube app occasionally to discover new material to subscribe to, but usually access YT on Safari using this extensikn.