Opus 2025-533: Organic YouTube

Even if you’re not aware of it, you are struggling with the invasion of YouTube videos by AI.  Sometimes it’s relatively obvious.  All those cute little babies that have the expressions of celebrities with mouths that are matched perfectly with the dialogue?  They can’t be real.  That much is obvious.  At other points I find myself listening to what would be instructional videos and after a while, I realize that this is not a human being trying to communicate with me.

In the future, the AI is going to continue to get more sophisticated.  That in itself is not the end of the world, but it certainly could influence the value of what we’re hearing.

I think we could draw a parallel between the food we eat, and the ideas we consume.  One of the theories of the health nuts is that modern foods are causing the obesity, epidemic and contributing to general ill health.  It couldn’t be that we are eating too much and moving to little.  They would lay it on the additives and the GMO plot.  Processing takes the healthiness out of the food.  It makes it artificial.

And the food industry they have come up with things like “organic” and “free range”. The terms in themselves are relatively meaningless.  There is no federal legislation that binds you to give a definition of what is really organic and what isn’t.  I remember watching a video on free range chickens and it was rather amusing to see how little was required for that label.  It wasn’t much.  I remember somebody pointing out that grass fed beef pretty much can apply to anything on four legs that is not a pig or a lamb.  It would be hard to find a cow that had not eaten grass sometime in life.

Foods are theoretically labeled organic to help the consumer differentiate between what is healthy and what isn’t.

I might suggest that we have an organic title for YouTube videos.  In fact, the term organic might be good because it would imply that there was actually a living organism that contributed.  I don’t know how you would enforce this.  I don’t know how you would know for sure.  I still think it’s a good idea.

I would not want to forbid AI generated content.  I am for freedom of the press and freedom of speech, even for computer programs.  After all, they were originally written by humans and designed by humans.  At the same time I think we have a right to know the source of what we’re getting.

So how about a “organic” label for what you watch or for what you read?

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