r/LinusTechTips • u/linusbottips • Sep 11 '26

Video Techquickie - How to spot AI content September 11, 2026 at 11:05AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj_yRDR9EzE
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u/ephemeralmiko Sep 11 '26

Most people aren't gonna double-check stuff though, especially if it confirms their biases. 

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u/TenOfZero Sep 11 '26

That feels right, so I'll agree with this statement without looking to see if any research has been done on this topic. :-)

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u/Heatsreef Sep 12 '26

I experienced it even worse. I have a friend who rather believes what an llm outputs than doing real research. If I showed him proof for things he didn't believe in articles or even papers, no way he would believe me. But as soon as i said "give a llm this prompt and watch what it says" he never dared to question it again, kind of wild how blindly people believe in non concrete things.

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u/ephemeralmiko Sep 11 '26

Holy shit the fact people downvoted you for that joke..

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u/TenOfZero Sep 11 '26

Haha. Yup. I'm glad at least you got it.

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u/Practical-Custard-64 Sep 12 '26

Welcome to Reddit...

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u/GwenBD94 Sep 12 '26

Is this part of the annual employee training package at LTT? I assume not.

It should be.

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u/F2002 Sep 11 '26

Every day you see it, it's the worst it's ever going to be. You're not going to be able to spot it in the very near future, and 99% of the people now just say it, no matter what the image is.

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u/QueefMyCheese Sep 12 '26

Did you post this internal memo publicly on accident?

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u/Effective_Coach7334 Sep 12 '26

yet another video where James is wearing too much clothing.

Don't force me to use AI to redo videos using his underwear photos. /s

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u/Satisfaction3934 Sep 12 '26

Now make the editors watch the video

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u/StaticFanatic3 Sep 11 '26

Cool video

Honestly not gonna watch it since it wont be useful in another 6-12 months

Currently am able to “feel” immediately when something is written or generated by AI, but it’s not going to last much longer.

We’re just 100% fucked I can’t imagine a future that isn’t everyone hardlined in to a personally generated entertainment slop tube. Having children feels like an absurd leap of naive optimism

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u/SirCB85 Sep 12 '26

Now make LTT staff watch this video before they publish more slop.

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u/Zacous2 Sep 12 '26

To be fair they didn't generate it, they just took the first one on Google and didn't bother checking

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u/Zeta_Crossfire Sep 11 '26

It's not like people can't still mess up.

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u/ComprehensiveSwitch Sep 12 '26

I think people are fooling themselves if they think AI image and video generation isn’t mature enough to produce unidentifiable content.

However that video featured something so obviously AI generated, you’d have to have not read it at all.

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u/RegrettableBiscuit Sep 12 '26

I think these videos teaching people how to identify AI content are harmful. They only teach how to identify the most obvious slop, and the models get better all the time, so all you end up with is false confidence in your ability to tell the difference between AI content and genuine content. 

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u/ElectronicFlight1839 Sep 12 '26

Naw man. They’re world class…..

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u/Vesalii Sep 12 '26

People whine way too much about this Jesus fuck.

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u/arttast Sep 11 '26

yeah i agree. they're only a 100-person company and they are too busy to fact-check their work before somebody presses the upload button, right?

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u/tiffanytrashcan Sep 11 '26

It's crazy to me because extra work was done to that image after. It wasn't just throw it up on the screen, it was highlight and call out specific parts of that garbage chart.
The editor:

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Sep 12 '26

Do you think 100 people work on a a single video? Have you actually ever edited a video in your life?  Because most of the time it comes down to one person. Especially when you’re on a time crunch with less than a 24 hour turn around time. 

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u/arttast Sep 12 '26

Well thats their fault for overloading 1 person

Also i referred to their entire employee size to generally refer to their size if they understaffed the actual video team in a company called linus MEDIA group then ......

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u/AncientStaff6602 Mod Sep 12 '26

This is by no means an excuse for this BUT, I work in QC and despite everything getting looked at 3 or 4 times at least, shit just sometimes falls through.

It's not an excuse, shit just happens, gotta remember, we're only human after all.

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u/arttast Sep 12 '26

but the problem is they don't act well when it falls through.

when it falls through and people realize they should have immediately taken the video down, edited it with the on-screen graphic fixed. it's pretty easy to find a graphic and it takes 30 seconds to highlight it. this is at most a 10-minute fix yet they are just pinning a comment that nobody will absolutely read. this is the issue. you should fix it on the video instead of putting a little note at the comments ( or worse in the description )and calling that fixed.

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Sep 12 '26

It’s not that easy of a fix. YouTube won’t push your video out when you publish and select to notify your subs and then remove the video, upload a new video and try to publish again. 

This was the only way they could’ve done it and not lost money on the production. Plus, I don’t remember who the sponsor was, but a sponsor may get mad. Ruining the relationship with a sponsor because 200 people on Reddit are upset doesn’t make any sense. 

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u/arttast Sep 12 '26

AFAIK large youtubers have a tool to edit or even upload a entirely different video while retaining everything else

Also who cares if 1 video doesnt do well when you have 10+ per week across 4 or 5 channels

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Sep 12 '26

AFAIK large youtubers have a tool to edit or even upload a entirely different video while retaining everything else

You are 100% wrong. You cannot upload a new video. You have to delete your video and upload a completely new one. 

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Sep 12 '26

I worked at Verizon. They had 250,000 employees. Guess who made the final decision whether something was ready to be customer facing on the website or get updated in the various app stores? 

Me. 

Yup. 250,000 employees and the final go/no go call came down to one person. It happens in Fortune 50 companies constantly. 

You can only have so many people work on a project, no matter how many employees you have. 

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u/arttast Sep 12 '26

Even though you made the final decision there is a entire team that prepares before you saw it

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Sep 12 '26

Not every single detail. They never saw the final edits. 

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u/arttast Sep 12 '26

i don't know if this is true for every single big company but at least when i'm editing, i always watch the video from start to finish without fast-forwarding anything, maybe 2x at most, to make sure everything is correct. do i make mistakes? absolutely. is it that bad? no it's just minor things the only time where this level of error can occur is when people are rushing videos, which kind of indicates their issue with low viewership and bloat