AiSList blocks AI-generated slop content from your YouTube experience
I realised again yesterday how bad this issue is becoming on YouTube. It is especially YouTube as these “creators” get rewarded financially for the views.
I watched a video that just sounded like that typical way that the AI narration goes, challenging assumptions, and winding things up and down. The confirmation came though at about 17 minutes in when a narration slide briefly appeared for 2 seconds showing the narration transition instruction.
That video has over a million views in the last week. Worst also is, there is no declaration that AI was used in the audio or video creation. That contravenes YouTube rules, but I really doubt that YouTube will take any action on my report.
The problem is YouTube also benefits off these views as the advertisers pay them too. The money just corrupts that whole system. Real content creators, apart from the very big ones, just get buried underneath this.
So I went looking for ways to just block this slop out. What surfaced was AiSList that works on both Chromium-based and Firefox browsers. It is open source, and is actually crowdsourced blocks. This helps bypass videos where the creator did not even declare that AI was used.
Because it is humanly crowdsourced these types of rules are set for using it:
What qualifies as an AI channel?
A YouTube channel should be added if it:
- Uses AI-generated voices (text-to-speech, synthetic narration) as primary content
- Uses AI-generated visuals (Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion)
- Uses AI-generated scripts
- AI-generated music
- Heavily relies on automation with minimal human creativity
- Mass-produces content using AI tools
What does NOT qualify?
- Channels that occasionally use AI tools as part of creative work
- Channels that review or discuss AI technology
- Channels with light AI editing assistance (grammar, suggestions)
- Educational content about AI
When in doubt:
- Possible case for the warnlist
They have also gamified the submissions by tracking the top 10 leaderboard for reports. Reporting a channel sends it to the developer’s API, along with a username if you set one. Leave the username blank and don’t submit channels if you’d rather avoid that.
You can also set options to block from the list or to just warn you.
To date I see 52,099 channels have been blocked through community contributions.
See
https://aisloplist.com/index.html
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