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(11,464 posts)Thank you. And I agree, leave them alone.
highplainsdem
(61,588 posts)Figarosmom
(11,464 posts)So what? As long as they are presenting the truth.
The Sentinelese are an, uncontacted Indigenous people inhabiting North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands (India), fiercely resisting outside contact to remain one of the world's most isolated communities. With an estimated population of 40500, they live as hunter-gatherers, relying on fishing and foraging, and are believed to have lived there for thousands of years.
Key Aspects of the Sentinelese People:
Location and Isolation: They live on North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, an area protected by the Indian government with a strict no-contact policy to prevent the transmission of diseases.
Lifestyle: They are hunter-gatherers who do not practice agriculture. They hunt with bows and arrows, fish in the shallow waters, and gather fruit and wild tubers.
Culture: They live in two types of shelters: large communal huts with multiple hearths and temporary, side-less shelters on the beach. They are believed to be related to other Andamanese people, but their language remains unclassified and unknown.
Physical Appearance: Described as well-built, they are thought to be descendants of early humans who migrated from Africa.
Contact History: The Sentinelese have historically met outsiders with hostility, including bows and arrows, though limited, cautious contact was made in the 1990s.
The island remains heavily forested, with the inhabitants acting as effective guardians of their ecosystem.
highplainsdem
(61,588 posts)slop at all, let alone in the Science forum. It shows contempt for real expertise, as well as showing contempt for all the people whose work was stolen to train the AI.
It's a really bad look for a liberal forum - pro theft by AI companies, and anti accuracy and humanity.
I'm not going to bother going through AI slop by a non-expert generating a video a day to pick out all the errors, when it's obviously done by AI and it took only seconds skimming the YouTube comments to see people pointing out errors.
highplainsdem
(61,588 posts)board writing, and a search for some quotes didn't turn up a source, which again makes it seem like something generated by AI.
highplainsdem
(61,588 posts)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
(30,151 posts)AI slop. This video contributes to the enshitification of the Internet.
highplainsdem
(61,588 posts)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.
xocetaceans
(4,403 posts)Why post such unethically sourced, factually unreliable slop?
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