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The Most Isolated Tribe On Earth Has DNA That Changes Human History (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 9 hrs ago OP
That was very interesting Figarosmom 7 hrs ago #1
It's AI slop. See reply 2. highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #3
Please delete. This is error-riddled AI slop from a channel that's all AI slop except 1 early, unrelated highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #2
Any video that starts with the disclaimer "altered or synthetic content" is crap. intheflow 1 hr ago #4
Most of them aren't labeled, though, and the label sometimes isn't added until well after they're uploaded highplainsdem 1 hr ago #5

highplainsdem

(61,579 posts)
2. Please delete. This is error-riddled AI slop from a channel that's all AI slop except 1 early, unrelated
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 09:31 AM
2 hrs ago

video in December, before they switched in late December to stuff like the video in the OP. They've posted 62 AI slop videos since then.

This is just clickbait from someone with no expertise who's trying to make money off AI.

It doesn't belong anywhere, but it's especially bad to have AI slop posted in the Science forum.

This AI slop channel is @ O r i g i n D e c o d e r - just one more of the (too) many garbage channels on YouTube. They've also just started a new channel they're "collaborating" with, also AI slop, called @ C r e a t u r e D e c o d e r - and as with the first channel, there's one unrelated, non-AI video, maybe a test of uploading, and then AI slop.

Both these channels were originally created several years ago, but apparently removed all earlier videos before posting just one before starting with the AI slop. While most AI slop channels seem to have been created fairly recently, others are older, like these, with either all early videos deleted, or a jump to AI from earlier videos, often with a gap of years before the AI slop started.

Anyway, just the first image you see with this AI slop is obviously AI. Usually a good indicator that the entire video is AI slop.

When they allow YouTube comments, you should always skim a lot of those, because you'll often find comments pointing out the AI errors and oddities.

The lack of credentials and links to websites is another clue.

And so is finding the channel has posted a lot of videos in a short time.

intheflow

(30,150 posts)
4. Any video that starts with the disclaimer "altered or synthetic content" is crap.
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 10:05 AM
1 hr ago

AI slop. This video contributes to the enshitification of the Internet.

highplainsdem

(61,579 posts)
5. Most of them aren't labeled, though, and the label sometimes isn't added until well after they're uploaded
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 10:42 AM
1 hr ago

to YouTube and then shared on other sites. So there's no way to be entirely certain, even if you see one of these slop videos posted that has the synthetic content label, that the label was already there when it was first posted.

People need to check videos carefully anyway.

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