I just reported my first fake Rick ;) I get lincolnproject.us when I google the URL and that won't work in the YouTube field, so I put in the URL of the video I was watching, Behind the Numbers.
I worked for Intel as close as I can remember between my 2 kids births 1976-83. Started out as a Material Planner in Marketing then to Computer Services and then to Engineering Representative. Yep, the people that invented “what’s inside.” Loved those guy’s (no women on that team at the time) however there were women in the Engineering Dept. I had to do the Engineering Dept. Newsletter. We had a speech on AI and I had to do an article on what I learned. Somewhere in my house is a copy of that newsletter, dying to find it and review what ignorant BS I spewed back in 83. This was short of my son’s birth and the end of me in Santa Clara, CA. Now AI is going to destroy life on earth. Can confirm that definitely wasn’t in my Engineering Newsletter Article.
I must've missed most of this video when I first responded. Of course, Rick, I'll report these chans on their pages and not merely remove them from my feed. Consider it done ;) Signing an online petition is slacktivism; mass reporting a growing AI menace is the real thing. Happy to help.
AI music channels with AI-generated thumbnails. You can find virtually any genre presented that way, as well as obvious AI parody videos, like songs with bawdy lyrics in a 40s swing arrangement. Those are cute and amusing because everyone knows it's AI and you're playing with styles, like having Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood interview Hellraiser's Pinhead ;)
But as an ardent fan of music, this tears gaping wounds in my soul. Sure, I hated Muzak, but at least Muzak was played by human beings who got paid Union scale for it. This stuff is produced by one person, with no rights needed to secure. AI has been trained to be clever enough to copy just enough of the sounds of a certain style to resemble it without copying any one particular song. That's made easier because in our peculiar copyright laws, you can only copyright a melody, not a chord progression, and that makes algorithmic detection of copyvios a cinch.
What could drive me to true despair if I let myself dwell on it is that, for about 90-95% of the population, this is sufficient. Most people don't need that individual quality ascribed to "soul" or any originality to predictably, if mildly, enjoy this stuff. Most of the music slop channels peg their streams for one of your bespoke lifestyle activities, like working out, or camping in the woods, or studying, or commuting. You don't even need to think about _how_ to "enjoy" the music; they do that for you. The thought that people actually use these channels to consume music appalls.
It's only that blessed under-10% of the population who cares. Who care about art. Who bother to familiarize themselves and understand it. Who take such great joy in music that it's worth many hours of intensive study and immersion. And you hardly have to be a musician or a professional, just the kind of music fan who gives a tinker's damn about the actual ... music.
Personally, I'm beginning to seriously believe that AI will be the death of us all -- a more pressing potential catastrophe than the chance of nuclear war and the steady erosion of anthropogenic global warming. AI skeeves me so hard I just went Full Facebook Uncle on my poor sis who used ChatGPT to settle a question. My sis is a CEO, good grief. Use Wikipedia, it's made by people.
We didn't have a fight; my sis laughed it off. She can deal with her _enthusiastic_ brother ;)
So I feel Rick's pain for being pirated and particularly acutely, because that's the bedrock ideology that I as a postwar liberal and Rick as a free market conservative share. It is the ideology that both of us share with the civil libertarian Frank Zappa. Its first principle is people own themselves.
But this is the world we live in. I built my bullshit detector coming of political age with Watergate and it is a fine machine, indeed. With the slightest use of active intelligence, AI isn't hard to miss. Unfortunately, way too many people don't use any active intelligence at all. Again, our world.
Because I don't have a dog in this fight, being a nobody whose footprint doesn't lend itself to being monetized, and because I'm confident in own my abilities to suss out and quarantine AI slop, I'm less concerned about the pirate channels than I am about just thumbnail clickbait generally, which is a curse across every type of channel. BlueAnon agitporn enrages me :P The business model for increasing social media reach is based on the ludicrous premise that the human mind has an equivalent to Moore's Law and can just keep expanding. It can't; this is why the thumbnails keep getting ever more strident; it's eerily like building up a drug tolerance. Our human wetware and eyeball resources are finite; this is why I don't subscribe to anyone save Rick. Why would I want the excess notifications when I have too many to read as it is?
They're Subscriber Laundering: They keep high subscriber counts (1M+) after hijacking a channel with non-political content, usually based off-shore. A recent thumbnail contains the grammatical error wrt to subject/verb agreement: 'Desi and Jimmy fires back' instead of 'fire back'—a mistake the real Rick Wilson and Lincoln project would never make. Then they're going 'members-only' right after being reported to hide the content but keep the subs. I've been reporting them since 10 November.
Mr. Wilson, et al,might want to ask YouTube to stop recommending the AI fakes, which they are doing every time one pops up. It looks like better than 50% of the political podcasts have been dee
You can take the channel out of the YouTube recommended sidebar easily enough; click the three vertical dots to the left of the thumbnail and select Do Not Recommend.
(I'm writing from a dictatorship via VPN to report a fake account. When reporting a complaint, they ask for an email address. I'm a little afraid to do that, so I'm writing here.)
I've seen them and other victims too. We will send info to the web site you recommended. We've got to get AI under control and ETHICAL...IF possible... Sorry about this problem...what a nightmare! This should happen to NONE of our heroes!!!
They’re on TikTok as well.
Gee. Now who owns YouTube? Yep. They have no financial incentive to keep it honest. I’ll do my best although I try to avoid YouTube.
I’m really happy to do this for you! You do so much for us! Can you tell us the names of the channels, besides Save America?
You and your team are the best!
Done! Thanks for the alert and the tutorial.
Now playing: Romain Baret Trio, Idée Fixe
https://labelpinceoreilles.bandcamp.com/track/id-e-fixe
I just reported my first fake Rick ;) I get lincolnproject.us when I google the URL and that won't work in the YouTube field, so I put in the URL of the video I was watching, Behind the Numbers.
Great show, Wilson boys ;)
I worked for Intel as close as I can remember between my 2 kids births 1976-83. Started out as a Material Planner in Marketing then to Computer Services and then to Engineering Representative. Yep, the people that invented “what’s inside.” Loved those guy’s (no women on that team at the time) however there were women in the Engineering Dept. I had to do the Engineering Dept. Newsletter. We had a speech on AI and I had to do an article on what I learned. Somewhere in my house is a copy of that newsletter, dying to find it and review what ignorant BS I spewed back in 83. This was short of my son’s birth and the end of me in Santa Clara, CA. Now AI is going to destroy life on earth. Can confirm that definitely wasn’t in my Engineering Newsletter Article.
I must've missed most of this video when I first responded. Of course, Rick, I'll report these chans on their pages and not merely remove them from my feed. Consider it done ;) Signing an online petition is slacktivism; mass reporting a growing AI menace is the real thing. Happy to help.
These channels are the bane of my existence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDLZmDyj53Y
AI music channels with AI-generated thumbnails. You can find virtually any genre presented that way, as well as obvious AI parody videos, like songs with bawdy lyrics in a 40s swing arrangement. Those are cute and amusing because everyone knows it's AI and you're playing with styles, like having Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood interview Hellraiser's Pinhead ;)
But as an ardent fan of music, this tears gaping wounds in my soul. Sure, I hated Muzak, but at least Muzak was played by human beings who got paid Union scale for it. This stuff is produced by one person, with no rights needed to secure. AI has been trained to be clever enough to copy just enough of the sounds of a certain style to resemble it without copying any one particular song. That's made easier because in our peculiar copyright laws, you can only copyright a melody, not a chord progression, and that makes algorithmic detection of copyvios a cinch.
What could drive me to true despair if I let myself dwell on it is that, for about 90-95% of the population, this is sufficient. Most people don't need that individual quality ascribed to "soul" or any originality to predictably, if mildly, enjoy this stuff. Most of the music slop channels peg their streams for one of your bespoke lifestyle activities, like working out, or camping in the woods, or studying, or commuting. You don't even need to think about _how_ to "enjoy" the music; they do that for you. The thought that people actually use these channels to consume music appalls.
It's only that blessed under-10% of the population who cares. Who care about art. Who bother to familiarize themselves and understand it. Who take such great joy in music that it's worth many hours of intensive study and immersion. And you hardly have to be a musician or a professional, just the kind of music fan who gives a tinker's damn about the actual ... music.
Personally, I'm beginning to seriously believe that AI will be the death of us all -- a more pressing potential catastrophe than the chance of nuclear war and the steady erosion of anthropogenic global warming. AI skeeves me so hard I just went Full Facebook Uncle on my poor sis who used ChatGPT to settle a question. My sis is a CEO, good grief. Use Wikipedia, it's made by people.
We didn't have a fight; my sis laughed it off. She can deal with her _enthusiastic_ brother ;)
So I feel Rick's pain for being pirated and particularly acutely, because that's the bedrock ideology that I as a postwar liberal and Rick as a free market conservative share. It is the ideology that both of us share with the civil libertarian Frank Zappa. Its first principle is people own themselves.
But this is the world we live in. I built my bullshit detector coming of political age with Watergate and it is a fine machine, indeed. With the slightest use of active intelligence, AI isn't hard to miss. Unfortunately, way too many people don't use any active intelligence at all. Again, our world.
Because I don't have a dog in this fight, being a nobody whose footprint doesn't lend itself to being monetized, and because I'm confident in own my abilities to suss out and quarantine AI slop, I'm less concerned about the pirate channels than I am about just thumbnail clickbait generally, which is a curse across every type of channel. BlueAnon agitporn enrages me :P The business model for increasing social media reach is based on the ludicrous premise that the human mind has an equivalent to Moore's Law and can just keep expanding. It can't; this is why the thumbnails keep getting ever more strident; it's eerily like building up a drug tolerance. Our human wetware and eyeball resources are finite; this is why I don't subscribe to anyone save Rick. Why would I want the excess notifications when I have too many to read as it is?
They're Subscriber Laundering: They keep high subscriber counts (1M+) after hijacking a channel with non-political content, usually based off-shore. A recent thumbnail contains the grammatical error wrt to subject/verb agreement: 'Desi and Jimmy fires back' instead of 'fire back'—a mistake the real Rick Wilson and Lincoln project would never make. Then they're going 'members-only' right after being reported to hide the content but keep the subs. I've been reporting them since 10 November.
Mr. Wilson, et al,might want to ask YouTube to stop recommending the AI fakes, which they are doing every time one pops up. It looks like better than 50% of the political podcasts have been dee
You can take the channel out of the YouTube recommended sidebar easily enough; click the three vertical dots to the left of the thumbnail and select Do Not Recommend.
Here is one of the fake accounts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOBR05kblho
(I'm writing from a dictatorship via VPN to report a fake account. When reporting a complaint, they ask for an email address. I'm a little afraid to do that, so I'm writing here.)
How?
(They) Pop up all the time.
I saw one the other day, it didn't look right, fuzzy looking and just off. Ignored it.
@AmericaFuture98
REPORTED
Rick or Kate, please post links to the fraudulent accounts! Add them as they emerge. Delete them as they’re taken down.
This can be a Substack post all by itself. Pin it at the top of your page.
I've seen them and other victims too. We will send info to the web site you recommended. We've got to get AI under control and ETHICAL...IF possible... Sorry about this problem...what a nightmare! This should happen to NONE of our heroes!!!