{"id":13416,"date":"2025-02-14T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13416"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:39:23","slug":"fighting-bots-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13416","title":{"rendered":"Fighting bots all the way down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not hard to find faceless YouTube channels that have automated voices talking on particular subjects with just a few pictures or clips. These faceless channels are an attempt to very quickly use AI to generate videos &#8211; and money for their owners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They often do this by stealing embedded transcript files from good YouTubers that generate content, run them through AI summarizers, and generate their own instant knock-offs. One YouTuber, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@f4micom\">F4mi<\/a>, is trying to fight back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By using some of the features in the .ass captioning format, she embeds her closed caption transcripts with junk data that is invisible to humans but poisonous to any AI that reads them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s another example of people trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10501\">poison the AI well<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEDFUjqA1s8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/how-one-youtuber-is-trying-to-poison-the-ai-bots-stealing-her-content\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/01\/how-one-youtuber-is-trying-to-poison-the-ai-bots-stealing-her-content\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not hard to find faceless YouTube channels that have automated voices talking on particular subjects with just a few pictures or clips. These faceless channels are an attempt to very quickly use AI to generate videos &#8211; and money for their owners. They often do this by stealing embedded transcript files from good YouTubers that generate content, run them through AI summarizers, and generate their own instant knock-offs. One YouTuber, F4mi, is trying to fight back. 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