WTF kill this with fire.

Nuke it to be sure!

Omg i just checked out Veo 3, and videos can never be believed again. I mean it couldn't in the past either, but at least you had to have technical video editing skills or the money to pay someone who does. But now any schlub can just type a dumb text prompt and the machine will generate an extremely realistic looking video of exactly what you wrote. Insane. Absolutely insane.

How are we this far in the future right now?!

Don't care. Just don't use them, as a I do.

This should help - all done on Veo 3 and it’s not as great as it’s cracked up to be.

Good thing PeerTube exists, you could always just move there. Google stopped being trustworthy for creators as soon as they announced Veo 3 if not even before then.

Similarly, with Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest further embracing AI, you got this site, Mastodon, and Pixelfed to move to as far as the Fediverse goes and even Bsky while they're still anti-AI, although given Bsky is a centralized, corporate platform, what's stopping them from going the way of Google, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest at some point in the future?

It doesn't matter where you view videos, the output from the ai generators is just an mp4 file that can be uploaded anywhere

Assuming PeerTube as a platform embraces AI in the same way Google/Meta/etc. are, even though that's fundamentally impossible based on its decentralized nature?

You can't force AI in a decentralized platform which allows people to self-host their content, and that also applies to Lemmy and to Mastodon and Pixelfed too, ditto for Matrix and PeerSuite.

YouTube shorts are cancer already. I've had them blocked ever since they appeared.

Then I don't understand what your point is as a reply to my original comment. I said "no video you see can ever be believed again", and you reply with "well you can post your own videos on a self-hosted service". I don't see how that follows as a response to my original comment.

EDIT

I think you seem to be under the impression that ai videos are somehow locked onto only being on YouTube. That isn't the case. Anyone can go to any Veo ai generation site, write a prompt, and it'll generate a video of that in an mp4 file which they can upload to any video sharing platform. All mp4 files are the same thing, regardless of whether they were made by a video camera or ai.

Flow

Google Lab's AI video generation tool, powered by Google DeepMind’s latest model: Veo 2

(labs.google)

I can't wait until AI video is good enough that you can input a book and it outputs a movie which is as faithful as you like to the original, you can change how all the characters look, etc

How do you block them? I keep pressing "show fewer shorts" but they keep popping up and I can't find an option to block them entirely.

I just used block element in ublock origin. Haven't seen em since

Use this on Android:
http://newpipe.net/
Or this on Android or desktop:
https://grayjay.app/desktop/

can you not do this in your head

I've been weaning myself off video content altogether, which I feel is the most surefire way to avoid AI video.

I feel like I'm going to turn into such a paranoid tin-foil-hat nutcase and just trust nothing I don't see with my own eyes... I mean I would be ok with that, it just sounds miserable.

I was reading old mates comment thinking... This dude is just describing reading a book.

I use the "Hide Shorts for YouTube" plugin on Firefox

In addition to what others have said, SmartTube has options to remove them on Android TV devices