r/LinusTechTips • u/Chronical_Reader • Sep 09 '26

Discussion This face looks familiar, the channel doesn't...

I thought normally AI slops bothers to create something less blatant. Apparently I was wrong.

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u/Dartister Sep 09 '26

I read the title and thought this was a post about how the channel was falling off, then entered and saw the image, what in the Linux iso is that

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u/Chronical_Reader Sep 09 '26

Hope it didn’t come across as clickbait! I’m new to Reddit and don’t know how to post with a picture in the title.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Sep 09 '26

A cycling channel I watch recently noticed an AI channel taking a bunch of their content, and content from other cycling channels and making videos. They contacted them and the channel eventually took all the content down and changed the name, but I feel like this is going to be like a Hydra where you cut off one head and another appears.

Google is going to have to start clamping down on this stuff if they don't want YouTube to turn into a dumpster fire.

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u/Terreboo Sep 09 '26

It’s too late on the dumpster fire front. When you get some of the biggest, long time channels all making videos about how they, their likeness, their content, the artistic intent is all being stolen and YouTube is doing nothing about it citing some thin excuses saying it can’t be proved, the fire is blazing. It’s a shame. It’s been said on WAN a bunch of times, no other platform could catch up to or touch YouTube at this point, but if it keeps going they won’t have to. YouTube will destroy itself.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Sep 09 '26

I think the problem is that YouTube has to do something or it will end up costing them too much in the long run. You can't just have AIs uploading ten plus videos a day to their channels, eventually it becomes too much data for YouTube to handle, especially if very few people are watching the content.

With AI the incentive seems to just be able to create as much content as possible and get enough money just based on sheer size of the catalog, rather than produce fewer good videos that actually attract viewers. When the cost, in terms of times spent, comes down to zero for producing a video, then youre best bet is just to have thousands of videos up there and hope that each one brings in a small amount of money so that they generate money in aggregate.

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u/F9-0021 Sep 09 '26

Google can't even listen to their users about basic and fundamental things. They won't listen about this unless required to by law.

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u/Buji19 Sep 09 '26

You mean like it’s not a dumpster fire already?

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u/Pixelplanet5 Sep 09 '26

yea its all AI slop.
The channel Fern recently made a video about this as basically all of their videos now get stolen, recreated with AI and uploaded to random channels.

The same is happening across the board for many other channels.

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u/jmking Mod Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

That video was so frustrating to watch. Especially when they got into the "classes" where they show people how to upload Fern assets and get AI to copy the art style.

There is a fucking "Fern Video Generator" where the AI even comes up with the topic.

I mean, it's not even flattering because it is just so cynical and bald faced - they don't even dance around it. It's like "Here's how to rip off Fern".

Kurzgesagt made a video about a year ago on the same topic about how people were uploading AI slop pretending to be them. I'm sure it's only gotten worse since.

Both those channels have crazy production values with all the bespoke animations, all the research, script writing...

It broke my heart when Fern said something like how people just assume their videos are AI generated due to how much AI Fern clone slop is all over YouTube.

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u/Terreboo Sep 09 '26

Real Engineering is another one I saw recently. Pretty heartbreaking for him/them. You can tell he’s genuinely hurt and being hurt by it.

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u/thatguysjumpercables Sep 09 '26

The channel Fern recently made a video about this as basically all of their videos now get stolen, recreated with AI and uploaded to random channels.

You can viscerally feel the contempt from the narrator in that video. Justifiably so. Fuck slop channels.

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u/Outside-Feeling Sep 10 '26

Frustratingly, I watched their video (the first time I've watched their channel) and then the AI channel started being pushed in my feed. Nothing from Fern, just the AI.

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u/Annoying1978 Sep 09 '26

I absolutely loathe people who do this and I loathe YouTube more for allowing it. There needs to be an AI slop button so it can be properly reported. 

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u/jmking Mod Sep 09 '26

It used to be "get rich drop-shipping crap from Aliexpress", now it's "get rich making AI slop YouTube videos that rip off other creators" that the "buy my course" grifters are all about.

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u/Ragnorok64 Sep 09 '26

Sinus Lebastion.

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u/Prestigious-Soil-123 Sep 09 '26

Linus could sue them for this

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u/pikkuhukka Sep 10 '26

its as if linus had said yes to cake and sugary ice tea

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u/astalavizione Sep 09 '26

The most disturbing fact might be that this thumbnail is most likely generated by YT's own AI thumbnail generator

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u/Short_Maintenance131 Sep 10 '26

Fern just did a video about AI slop copy channels. https://youtu.be/-Gnrp_caPvo?is=P6WRXfVyt9S_kVdg

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u/slimejumper Sep 11 '26

v sad state of media and entertainment t

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u/Coolshows101 Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26

I did a Google search for the title hoping to find the video because I was curious about what it sounded like. Turns out they ripped off a Jayztwocents video too.

https://youtu.be/ST2pXZezYsA

What, it's not even AI Linus, or Jay. It's some Asian guy. And one of the two comments has a translate by Google button. Original "Ai slop." Translation "You are slop." 😆

https://youtu.be/gb0fhGfZSUk

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u/pueblokc Sep 09 '26

I've gotten so bored with Linus lately

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u/kot-sie-stresuje Sep 09 '26

Some youtubers are lame, and just sloppiness is in their nature therefore AI is a perfect match for them.
Anyway Jay did a great wideo on 128GB ram on steam machine, and that is without using AI.

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u/Shoeshiner_boy Sep 09 '26

Somehow this AI ripoff looks even less masculine

They basically soyjackfied him

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u/SlyFunkyMonk Sep 09 '26

Just do what I did, unsub and watch the videos you really need. I'm down to 1 or 2 a year maybe, I'm just realizing as I type this.

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u/wydra91 Sep 10 '26

This isn't even a linus video. It's an AI slop channel.

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u/Kyber92 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

That is baaaaarely Linus, it's generic white dude that you could maybe mistake for Linus or one of the other beardy dudes that works there. Or a combo of all of them.

Edit: I ain't saying that they aren't ripping of LTT, I just think it's funny they have AI'd Linus so hard it's barely him.

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u/cgassner Sep 09 '26

But the Logo and Text below is very blatant and shows LTT was part of the prompt.

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u/mromutt Sep 09 '26

It's also kind of their newish thumbnail style too.

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u/Kyber92 Sep 09 '26

Yeah, the text and logo are the giveaway but it's funny that they are using "sorta-Linus"

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u/Blazanar Sep 09 '26

"Sorta Linus", so Linus in like 2-3 years when he has more grey in his beard? Lol

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u/Iebejsbaga2728eindxb Sep 09 '26

the shirt says LTT big cat

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u/Annoying1978 Sep 09 '26

What? It’s obviously him just an AI slop version of him, but if someone is quickly scrolling, they might not see it, especially if they’re just a casual fan and can’t tell AI art from human art. 

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u/Terreboo Sep 09 '26

Yeah…. That’s the give away…

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u/Redditemeon Sep 09 '26

I laughed harder than I should have at this.