From Straight Arrow · · 1m 50s
Kids and parents eat AI slop
AI-generated health videos trick elderly parents with fake vitamins and water advice.
In brief
AI-generated health videos trick elderly parents with fake vitamins and water advice. YouTube AI health videos mislead seniors with fake vitamins and water advice, risking health. Originally reported by Straight Arrow.
AI slop for kids
YouTube creators make AI cartoons for kids that children watch repeatedly.
“this is when it hit me, people are actually making money creating these ai-animated stories for kids and then posting them to youtube”
AI health slop for seniors
YouTube videos push fake vitamins and water advice to seniors with no real health benefits.
“one of the scariest things i’ve seen out of the commercial availability of ai isn’t its effects on children. it’s how it’s affecting our elderly population”
AI health misinformation
researchers find seniors share fake health advice more than younger people.
“people’s ability to detect synthetic media online is about as good as a coin toss”
AI health videos target seniors
YouTube videos use fake studies to sell fake health advice to seniors.
“the host is fake, the information is fake and the papers used to justify the advice are fake as well”
AI health videos on YouTube
YouTube videos target seniors with fake health advice about vitamins and water.
“i saw this video about such and such vitamins, or that you need such and such thing for your health”
AI health misinformation spread
AI health videos spread quickly with fake sources and no real health benefits.
“the videos referred to sources that jarry said appear to have been hallucinated by a large language model”
YouTube’s response
YouTube adds labels to ai-generated videos and warns against fake authorship.
“the company has also added labels on ai-generated videos, placing a particular emphasis on photorealistic content”
Children’s health concerns
Children’s advocates warn ai videos distort reality and overwhelm learning.
“there’s no regulation on the use of the word educational, so it gets slapped on these ai slop videos quite a bit”
AI health advice risks
AI health advice can cause real health problems for seniors.
“i’m like grandma, that’s not even real”
YouTube’s policy changes
YouTube adds labels to ai-generated videos and warns against fake authorship.
“the company has also added labels on ai-generated videos, placing a particular emphasis on photorealistic content”
AI health misinformation
AI health videos spread quickly with fake sources and no real health benefits.
“the videos referred to sources that jarry said appear to have been hallucinated by a large language model”
YouTube’s response
YouTube adds labels to ai-generated videos and warns against fake authorship.
“the company has also added labels on ai-generated videos, placing a particular emphasis on photorealistic content”
AI health advice risks
AI health advice can cause real health problems for seniors.
“i’m like grandma, that’s not even real”
AI health misinformation
AI health videos spread quickly with fake sources and no real health benefits.
“the videos referred to sources that jarry said appear to have been hallucinated by a large language model”
YouTube’s policy changes
YouTube adds labels to ai-generated videos and warns against fake authorship.
“the company has also added labels on ai-generated videos, placing a particular emphasis on photorealistic content”
AI health advice risks
AI health advice can cause real health problems for seniors.
“i’m like grandma, that’s not even real”
The key point
YouTube AI health videos mislead seniors with fake vitamins and water advice, risking health.
