Hijo de las dunas 🇪🇭

To everyone freaking out about SynthID in 11Labs, relax. Seriously calm down... 11Labs was ALREADY putting a watermark in their content. To anyone saying this is the end of YTA, you are misinformed or stupid. I have seen a lot of talk around the EU's AI Act that is coming into effect in Aug 2026. So what does it ACTUALLY say (https://t.co/5VQus8K0Bh): "Transparency risk This refers to the risks associated with a need for transparency around the use of AI. The AI Act introduces specific disclosure obligations to ensure that humans are informed when necessary to preserve trust. For instance, when using AI systems such as chatbots, humans should be made aware that they are interacting with a machine so they can take an informed decision. Moreover, providers of generative AI have to ensure that AI-generated content is identifiable. On top of that, certain AI-generated content should be clearly and visibly labelled, namely deep fakes and text published with the purpose to inform the public on matters of public interest. The transparency rules of the AI Act will come into effect in August 2026." Lets read some more shall we? (https://t.co/z1zdUy5F9C) "Providers of AI systems, including general-purpose AI systems, generating synthetic audio, image, video or text content, shall ensure that the outputs of the AI system are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. Providers shall ensure their technical solutions are effective, interoperable, robust and reliable as far as this is technically feasible, taking into account the specificities and limitations of various types of content, the costs of implementation and the generally acknowledged state of the art, as may be reflected in relevant technical standards. This obligation shall not apply to the extent the AI systems perform an assistive function for standard editing or do not substantially alter the input data provided by the deployer or the semantics thereof, or where authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offences." This WHOLE move and the WHOLE law is to let people know that what they are looking at is AI generated and to make sure that AI companies and any generated AI stuff are watermarked as such. As more and more AI generated stuff gets produced, there NEEDS to be a way to tell what is AI and what is real. You, the YTA person might not like it, but regulators and society at large agrees that we should mark what is AI and what is not.... NOW, I think most people probably don't give 2 shits if what they are looking at is AI or not if it is entertaining or provides value. I love watching creative AI videos and shorts that people make. If its good, its good! But when you try to pass off AI stuff as real and do it in a sneaky way, it will get flagged as AI. Politics niche is huge and makes a lot of money for a lot of people. Well what happens when there is a shit ton of AI clones and fake AI politics channels (even more than there might already be) with (AI) Trump giving completely fake speeches or talks about things that didn't happen. Or Anti Trump channels saying things like "2 minutes ago! Trump sent to jail" with AI video and audio of things that didn't happen. Youtube has already said they are not banning AI Voice overs from the platform. We ALL KNOW that inauthentic mainly hits low quality AI mass produced slop. It does hit high quality and real channels as well, but lets not pretend your fuckin 5 image, 2 hour long AI Story was not AI slop for old people... Around 90% of adults couldn't tell AI videos from real videos according from a study from Runway AI (Take it with a grain of salt). https://t.co/H88ftkP7lV We were all pretty blown away by Seedance 2's quality. In literally 3 years, the "Will Smith Eating Spaghetti" (2023 - 2026) went from comically bad, to damn realistic. So in summary: Does YouTube have some alternative motive? Probably not. Does it give YouTube an easier way to detect AI VO's. Yes it does. Will YouTube ban your channel or give it inauthentic content only because you used 11Labs voice? No it won't. Should you stop posting super low effort/quality AI Slop if you don't want to run risky channels now? Yes you should. Will you probably see an AI tag or disclaimer somewhere when people watch a video with 11Labs or other AI content, even if you don't check the box? Yes they probably will. Will Youtube fuck your channel over because you used 11Labs before the deadline in August? No, they won't, unless you run obvious AI slop, then its always at risk. Google and Large Tech don't just jump around with glee and bend over backwards to comply with regulators and governments. They do the bare minimum and mostly maliciously comply. The law says NOTHING about banning AI generated content or making it impossible to profit off AI generated content. Therefore it will not happen. SOMETHING WILL happen in the future with more inauthentic as AI videos/images/VO/Editing becomes better and better. When @VidrushAI from @noahmorris gets as good, as diverse, as cheap, and as creative as human editors.... Then something will need to happen, but that time is not quite now (maybe Vidrush 2.0?) Thanks for coming to my ted talk. What do you think? Lets have a productive conversation about this, not fear based hot takes and brain dead shallow tik tok brain replies.