0:52 pyramids are hypothesized to be powerplants or chemical plants based on the evidence... they sure as hell weren't tombs lmao that's why they had the vally of the kings.
I don't see the information panels RU-vid uses to combat disinformation to be particularly helpful. I'm glad you included Kyle in this video, he's great.
Congratulations to the BBC and all the channels and influencers committed to informing and teaching people on the internet. However, it is sad to see that a well-made and very relevant video like this has many fewer views than the videos ai generated out there that spread misinformation. What will it take for RU-vid and other media to really take action and do something to change this?
There's like a need for specific, especially new topics when there is no info on them, like James Webb. Then there is the sensationalization of science like the history channel that I guess came back to haunt us.
I first became aware of this through Kyle Hill's channel. For the 02:11 experiment , I think it matters what context( classroom ) where the child's defense and scrutiny might be down. Most eduction systems don't encourage critical thinking, just teach people to accept and conform so we can move onto the next lesson. Also what were info were the kids told prior to the vids being shown? all this matters. Regardless of experiment shortcomings, this is a very legitimate concern, so glad not just RU-vidrs are looking into it.
It's a shame that if any action is taken here, it will be further restrictions on which channels are allowed to discuss what, rather than promoting critical thinking.
The question for me starts with the following questions: 1) "Why do these videos get created?"; 2) "Wchildren children to uncover fake content/science and expose it publicly -- and thus becoming an embarrassment to the platform hosts and content creators.
1) 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 With a few AI tools, this 'content' is dirt cheap to create, and it's free to publish. The investment is practically nothing, and the more a producer churns out the more views they can get and the more ad-revenue comes flowing back to them. Content is views, views are ads, ads are money.
I've seen some of these videos. They certainly are delivered as "fact", but I'm smart enough to be sceptical or say "meh" at them. I think RU-vid should have a "higher bar" for anything that tries to label itself as educational.
How the fuck do kids have the critical thinking skills at a young age to be able to know what is right and wrong. Adults can’t even tell a lot of times. also why the hell do people need access to misinformation, pseudoscience. Why would people need access to fake information??
@@ottobena The video is only 12 minutes ... ?? Also how in the world is that video click bait? It's directly stating the question it answers in the title.
Not just ignorant adults. Adults who don't do the adult thing and check out the story if it's real. What really freaks me out is that we expect that AI will not lie. Why? They do. Why not? After all they're made in our image and likeness. That is...our likeness after the power of reasoning awakes in our conscience. AI has no conscience. Only mankind does.
@@rock_and_roll_hootchie_cooYou really just made the description of ignorant people and the current AI is not sentient but collect data by using mass data gathering of the related content and stitch them together and source data itself can be false
The algorithm didn’t tell David Grusch to testify…. Or the pentagon to release statements saying there’s literal ufos in the sky. This is what happens when the BBC or US government lie to its people for so long.
Sadly, children aren't the only ones on the platform succeptible to these false pseudoscience videos. I have encountered way more than a few adults who believed the wholeheartedly.
Not long ago we also found videos with disturbing/suicidal audio stories but uses cooking or other kids friendly visuals. And I found this on the YT Kids app. The version of RU-vid that supposed to be "curated" for children. So parents, pls be aware.
I've noticed them, too. Was wondering why the video had nothing tomdo with the audio. Maybe it is a brainwashing method, or an attempt to bypass the autocensors.
I teach science in middle school. It's hard enough trying to get them to learn credible content based on solid research. The idea of having to compete with conspiracy laden pseudoscience generated by AI that targets kids based on demographics, susceptibility profiles, age-based fear tactics, and historic interests derived from previous clicks is terrifying. Schools are limited by thin budgets, behavioral problems, and short-sighted politician driven agendas.If I wanted to incorporate this as a warning lesson into my lesson plans, I run the risk of offending the wrong parent due to the political nature of the content and getting a formal reprimand since it's not a standards-based content model that will be tested on statewide assessments. This is a truly terrifying precursor of what our future adults are going to believe as they enter society as contributing members of humanity.
Another reason not to be a public school teacher. Low pay, over-crowded classrooms, students with emotional/psychological issues, active shooter scenarios, etc, and now this!
All true, but we don't have to accept that this is the future. There is considerable psychological damage likely if children are forced to grow up living in a sea of lies, even if we try to teach them critical thinking. Young children especially are vulnerable to this because they cannot think critically yet, and are predisposed to believe what they are told. Sowing a deep distrust of what they hear and see is similar to when many centuries ago children were told there were evil spirits and such all around them, perpetuating all kinds of superstitions which they carried into adulthood. We shouldn't have to tell children to be constantly on their guard; they shouldn't have to worry that everything they see or hear might be a lie that ends up humiliating them for believing it. Growing up in fear and uncertainty about the adult world is just not conducive to good mental health. I believe channels like these could be easily shut down by RU-vid by using its AI to identify and fact-check them. This is how they enforce copyright, so there is no excuse for them not to do the same to keep these bogus "science" videos off the platform. The fact that they do not do so is evidence that money means more to them than human well-being, and only elevating public awareness, and the resulting public pressure, will ever force them to take the proper measures to put a stop to these destructive videos.
We need to hold internet content providers responsible. If it has an "Education" tag, it should be verified. Period. The head in the sand argument that absolves these companies from liability needs to be shunned, mocked, and rejected.
What's to stop people from making up their own sources via their own website though? We need youtube dislikes back, and we need a button to request an information verification, kind of like a report button.
This video talks about children, but the target is not only children. I've seen these AI videos in a multitude of topics; from philosophy, psychology, to speedrunning documentaries. We like to think that we could easily identify videos like this, but no one is immune to misinformation.
@@lorenzoblum868 The people saying things like this are usually the ones that believe most false information and conspiracy theories. And they did not pay much attention in class.
It's only a single class in college. And it's generally taught poorly in my experience looking back on it on hindsight. We were never taught how to assess credibility and asked to question our sources on things when presenting our research. This should be taught in high school and reinforced regularly. I remember a RU-vid video I watched where he was looking for the source on some behind the scenes info on the making for a Lupin movie and the only sources referenced each other. There was no actual quote or statement by the creators regarding something like the budget. Basically someone just made it up and it spread like a cancer.
I also believe the issue stems from documentaries being glammed up with special affects. I’ve found my adult friends believing ridiculous ‘documentaries’ on Netflix with no scientific grounding. So no wonder a kid can’t tell the difference between a well produced piece of information and this crap.
People are lazy, and like believe stuff that fits their mindset. Sure it's shoking when you see pseudo docus on Netflix featured as scientific proves. I have nothing against fun and entertainment, but there should be a check for tags, cathegories etc. Then money is allowing all, nothing new, but sad.
When a kid play fornite at first he cannot realize he is playing mostly against bots. Each kill he does is like if he killed a human. ChatGpt now has the option to understand what you say and answer you with voice fluently.
Lol. Watch the Bigfoot "documentary" shot partially in Alberta. Bad robotics and a big friggin Indian pretending to be Bigfoot. It's sad that adults aren't smarter.
I'm from India and this pseudoscience is biggest problem here because here everyone is trying to prove that religion is science and people are believing that those stuff are true. It goes for every religion .
It’s because they were made to believe the nonsense of religion without questioning from a very early age. Religion is man made. No one has ever been able to prove otherwise, even though they believe they have. Their evidence always falls flat.
Humans are and are much like gamblers; Just because you've done it longer doesn't mean you're not that much more of a sucker at losing everything to a simple 3 Card Monte.
Perfect example of why verification of sources is a necessity. If teachers are going to use RU-vid as a teaching tool, then they need to watch the video before they recommend it to the student.
And especially just link to verified sources! I usually only use news or channels I know as videos to watch, and if I ever hear something strange (usually not false, just off topic) I tell the students ignore it, or that it's not totally accurate (things about nutrition where they mention BMI or that you must eat 2,000 calories a day etc but it could vary based on so many factors, that oil is always bad etc etc)
As a science junky in my 60s and a lifetime engineer, I have noticed these questionable videos too, the AIs make terrible editing mistakes like repeating a sentence fragment twice with the exact same voice tones, or massive mispronunciation errors. It may well help me stop wasting time watching them.
These will be fixed eventually. And what about the huge number that are not made by AIs, that have human narrators that sound like and claim to be experts or professors? I am an engineer too, and many sophisticated fake science vids cannot be distinguished by general viewers from legitimate science.
AI is the worst it will be now, it will only get better. I have actively blocked all shady channels, but Im sure I cant do it nearly as easily in the future.
BBC is promoting garbage "science" all the time. And RU-vid runs fake "science" commercials. .... We are even teaching Feminism & Fat Studies... at Universities!!! Nobody can't even replicate the majority of those idiotic studies in the Academia. How IA supposed to know, if BBC & ABC & CBS & CNN & ... promotes garbage!? Maybe you should clean your own house first, & then we will talk about AI.
They're doing well because social media companies are allowing them. We need to hold them liable. Preferably by legislation, but by lawsuit if necessary.
I really feel for kids these days. Media literacy was easy when I was growing up. Things that didn't look legitimate weren't, and it was easy to check authenticity. Now, with AI and more online tools making it so easy to make "realistic" content, it's probably impossible NOT to be fooled at least once in a while
@@creativecatproductionsHow is it naive? I’m not sure the word “naive” means what you think it means - or you replied to a comment that isn’t there anymore.
Also, growing up not being exposed to the legitimate old-school ones, and instead being raised on all these souped up special effects-driven ones, they wouldn’t inherently notice the difference.
I keep seeing fake AI videos. It’s crazy, like the images look so real. Every time I hear an AI voice in a video I click “Don’t recommend this channel,” and when I see even a hint of some misinformation I do the same thing. Would recommend.
Those channels needs to be exposed and reported for false information. And we need to promote the legitimate science channels more, they deserve more attention for their efforts. Some of my favorites are : - Kurzgesagt : They have bunch of interesting science topics, packed in dense but fun and interesting explanation. The animation are cool too! - PBS Space Time : Lots of science contents mainly around physics and cosmology, explained in a more sophisticated level. Totally legitimate - Sciencephile The AI : Various science mix philosophy topics. Fun & entertaining, you'll laugh a lot while having existential dread at the same time
I remember being misled by “free energy” and “anti gravity” videos as a kid. Thankfully I realized it was all false and learned to be *very* critical of everything I see. I hope these kids realize it too.
Dear parents and teachers and children, needless to say, as a teacher I find this trend disturbing. However, I have good news for you: critical thinking can and must (like never before) be brought up in children from a very young age (I know because my mother did that to me). As parents and teachers it is imperative that we 1. bring up critical thinking in our children early 2. are reliable and trustworthy parent/teacher figures to our children/students, to whom children look up to and whom they trust to share information they have seen with and to whom they listen. It is not easy being a parent/teacher, but it isn't about being easy, it's about our future - our children. We can do it and we must
In the long run education is the cure, but unfortunately it won't help with false info on social media. The lie factory is too good. For 15 years educators have tried to design a media literacy course to teach secondary students to distinguish fake sources from reliable ones; examples are CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) and RADAR (Rationale, Authority, Date, Accuracy, Relevance). They have failed completely. Fake scientific and news stories are now so good that it may take hours of fact checking to debunk them. The only way to get reliable information anymore is to trust in a reliable source. This is admitted in the latest research acronym: SIFT (Stop, Investigate the source, Find better sources)
How do you prove to someone limited to a child's knowledge that, for example, George Washington was the first US president? Teachers currently rely on "Trust me bro, I'm an Authority Figure". How would they do it, if the kids turned around and used CR to say, "Nu uh. We don't believe you on faith. Prove it." Yes it can be done. But how long would that take? How long would that take for every fact in every subject we currently expect kids to learn? As a follow up, if there was some short quick easy way to get around that, what stops the fake science videos from using it? I think you need to think critically about your use of critical thinking in the class rooms.
Too bad parents don't want to parent these days. They just birth their little tax deductions or welfare multipliers and expect teachers and the government to raise them for them.
The woman teacher said "it's just not in our wiring to question things". That's all that kids do....question things. lol The problem is that, schools don't teach kids how to think. They teach them how to take tests.
I'm glad that people are starting to become aware of this, but I don't yet think people fully appreciate the risks it causes which, imho, are tremendous. We already know social media such as YT, Facebook, Twitter are really hopeless at identifying and removing misinformation and there's good reason for that because they MAKE MONEY out of it. For starters it's essential that everything produced by AI needs labelling as such.
I’m a teacher in the US, first it is so difficult to convince my 7th/8th graders that bad science videos are giving fake information. Worse than that, these videos are fooling adults too.
After seeing video after video with David Attenborough's AI voice, I would suggest to the BBC to take a harder stance on AI generated content. They will use your material for model training, make no mistake.
I'll repost here what I commented on @kylehill 's video. "I saw your first video on this topic right before starting my own channel. It was something I was genuinely worried about-I didn't want people to think my channel was just AI spam, especially since I don't use voiceovers in my videos (at least not yet) I appreciate you drawing attention to this topic as I hope it will prevent new/small channels like mine from being pushed out ❤"
This is a huge problem in India. These videos don't only target kids, even adults are affected by these. And its not just ai generated crap. Even human generated crap is harmful
We really aren't ready for AI; it is far too easy to make these kinds of things with it, and people either don't understand the consequences, or do, but don't care about them. Hopefully laws will be passed in as many places as possible and soon to restrict the use of AI and prevent it from being used in harmful ways
People don't care about accuracy--they're interested in titillation and being agreed with. As long as the content ticks one of those two boxes, it's the same as real-life interaction: most people seek to believe what they already believe, not the actual truth... cuz that might 'offend' their personal ideologies or feelings of security.
Well, you know what they say about this kind of thing... we have 21st century technology but we still have stone age brains. Also, as they say about hide & seek... ready or not, here I come.
Well, Joe Rogan is not AI, but his bro-science channel spread tons of misinformation and disinformation to many millions across the world. The problem is not new and is not limited to just AI.
Things that bad people been doing with AIs been done for ages. From art plagarization, fake news, snake oil, and so on. What AI bring is not revolution of these things but making it one hundred time easier to execute and with almost no budget. I do hope, we as a species can solve these issues before all we have is junk foods all over the place for our body, mind, and soul.
Very good point. . But social media is only the reflection of mainstream medias. Since cradle we're being fed with illusions, fairy tales and such. Santa Claus to promote consumerism. Advertising industry, politics, religion and the list goes on. We live in a world of make believe. Kafkaesque.
Critical thinking and Logical thinking that is what we need to teach kids I am afraid apart from Some particular cases Schools doesn't teach that rather often ignoring that and making students memorize facts
That's not critical thinking. You are confusing that for being argumentative or being critical of other people. Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas, and able to think in a reasoned way to help you make decisions. CRITICAL THINKING DOES NOT MEAN TO BE A CRITICAL PERSON!
You are talking about an educational system that still works like it's the 1900s that doesn't allow you to be unique and free thinking . Now get back in line and listen to your teacher 😂
We adults need to work on our critical-thinking skills, too. Also, it's just as important to identify sources you CAN trust as it is to question everything. RU-vid tends to do a terrible job of helping users evaluate the credibility of different channels or individual videos.
I think it's just not your intellect, but also focus on your heart, if you purify yourself your all faculties will grow, modern person often neglects this aspect
Yeah. I was really shocked to see that these kids believed all of these videos. Perhaps this is the education or intellect level or something. I could tell easily from these videos, even without the writing in the corner that they were all fake.🫤🤨🧐 I mean, you can literally hear the inflection and tone of the AI voices in the videos that those for starters weren’t real. Let alone the so-called science used. None of it was believable or connected to any source materials that you can actually follow. I honestly thought more than half of these kids would actually know it was fake right away, but they didn’t. That is very bizarre and disturbing to me. Perhaps they need to do a wider study among large groups of schools, rather than just one in the UK and one other in another country.
This has been a long term issue with social media platforms and especially RU-vid in my experience. I am 21 now and when i was growing up on RU-vid around ages 7-13, these clickbait-y science and conspiracy theory videos were recommended to me and as the curious kid I was, seeing something outside of my realm of understanding, those were the videos I was drawn to. Lots of memories of late night rabbit holes
Do you regret falling into those late night rabbit holes as a child ? Do you think they wasted your time or stunted your potential as an adult ? Do you wish someone had educated you about the nature of social media early in life ?
@@Makes_me_wonder Yes I have mental health issues as a young adult now, and while I cannot say they are directly the result of social media, growing up on the internet definitely influenced my depressive self perception. I do not necessarily regret spending my youth on internet rabbit holes, just wish i was more productive, even thinking about binge watching netflix in years past, if i could have gone back and learned a new hobby instead of spending countless hours streaming, I think I would be in a much more fulfilling place in life
7:15 "I think children often take what they see as fact" Children? Have you seen the people in the world today? It's not children, it's people in general.
Or even earlier, at home. People do seem to find the time to indoctrinate their children with that other misinformation i.e. religion, which leaves them more open (gullible) to believing all kinds of non existent things.
RU-vid should take some responsibility for its own platform and we need to recognise that if we're not ready for RU-vid and fake content we're not prepped for anything
RU-vid used to have a visible dislike system. But they hid it, so only creators of the video can see it. YTs reason was to protect creators mental health btw.
It just occured to me that if our ability to discern AI voices and faces from human voices and faces comes from our early years of learning what's real, then the coming generations wont be able to tell. They'd be colour blind when it comes to AI
Useless, as nobody will be able to execute it in a globalized internet and platforms, that enable people to generate new channels within minutes, after being blocked on an old one. Further more, this kind of censoring would boost the mystery factor, in the line of "this video has been blocked/forbidden by authorities - watch, why!!!!", generating even more clicks. Fighting nonsens and misinformation starts by educating media competence and critical thinking by a solid basement of MINT education and logical reasoning, which takes many years to form the young brain, but introduces the danger other uniformed, uncreative and tunnel view thinking, on the other hand.
The teacher half awkwardly saying "we don't question really do we" is for me the annoying point - are you saying that it's a cultural norm to be non critical? Half of teaching should be showing people how to think
I am a retired Physics teacher. The challenges to what I taught were just beginning. The Planet is in the state it is because of widespread ignorance. Adding disinformation and false science will be our complete undoing.
When i was young, i was almost addicted on videos describing philadelphia experiment, Bermuda triangle, UFO's etc.. yes, i was young and this all sounded fascinating, but i grew up and i developed critical thinking.. then i had to persuade my older brother that all of that is bullsh*t (actual terminology)
I enjoyed things like that when I was a kid too. I didn't believe any of it, but I certainly found it interesting. Trying to control the narrative is worse. All it takes is for the "official" source to get things wrong, and they instantly lose all trust. Instead, teach kids how to work it out for themselves. No point just telling them. Worst case scenario, some kid thinks the pyramids are batteries. No great loss.
One of the dangers here is that it may then be perceived that all AI content is 'false' and all non AI content is 'true' which of course is very far from the case. Students need to be taught the skills for critical thinking to be able to sift through all the current and future content.
treating all ai content as false is sensible, since it’s false more often than it’s true, but assuming that non-ai content is true is obviously extremely naive
@@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 you could use the exact same argument for predicting the future using coin-flips. something that produces falsehoods 50% of the time is worse than useless unless you only use it as inspiration for what to research more about. that’s why you should by default assume it’s false until you have proven it otherwise. (in case it was unclear, i’m primarily talking about tools like chatgpt here. but i’d also see the extremely low budget ai voice videos in general as a case of this. assume it’s untrustworthy until proven otherwise)
@@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 yes, being able to distinguish facts from fiction is a useful skill, but it uses significant effort and time, so no one is going to actually fact check every single piece of information they get, so it’s also very useful to have rules of thumb for when you can just dismiss it without further examination (unless you’re particularly interested in it), e.g. chatbots and videos with ai voices, and when you can generally accept it without further examination (unless you have a reason to be skeptical), e.g. information from a textbook or *verified* subject matter experts (for subjects outside your expertise you would probably not be able to examine it anyways other than by seeing what other experts on the same subject say, which is of course worth doing) yes, sometimes you can quickly think something through and realize the fatal flaw, but most of the time all you have to go on is hunches to determine if you want to spend the possibly hours on examining it (and in the worst case only find more misinformation)
It is quite important to note that from the way the scripts are written, it is not the AI that's making mistakes. Whoever is prompting the scripter is asking for unreal controversial stuff with no scientific background. In order to beat the algorithms. This is an AI Engineers perspective.
It's quite important to note that, from the way nuclear disasters unfold, atoms are making no mistakes. Whoever engineered atomic bombs, did so in order to beat the enemy. However, nuclear technology is scary enough to be highly regulated. AI is not. Even tough it poses gigantic threats to humanity (job disruption, education disruption, etc).
Glad that you had used Kyle Hill's clip and photo there and also that you talk about this! This is a serious problem, because it is already big in english content, but there is even more with less known languages! I can go and find many arguable / weird and lying videos in czech in under a minute. Hope we will find way how to deal with those bad creators! Big respect BBC! 😉
When I was a kid they had the National Enquirer and other sketchy "news" magazines at grocery stores. I remember briefly thinking they had real stories. At some point between school and my parents, i learned about the difference between reliable sources and unreliable sources. Hopefully we'll teach our kids to be able to discern b.s. online 🤷🏾♂️
Here from the Kyle Hill crew. I worry more about the influence on adults and the redirection of viewership to a worse iteration of a product and no compensation to the creators of said product.
My mother in law is in her 60s and she believes in everything these kind of videos say. These videos channels claims they don't aim kids, but it doesn't matter, they spread fake news anyway.
I think training in critical thinking is one good measure to take And maybe there could be requirements for listing sources on educational youtube videoes. So that videos that are absolutely made up can be easily taken down based on the lack of sources, thus avoiding the scary idea of someone dictating what is and isn’t true. And maybe there needs to be found other requirements to use for removing false information, but sometimes the line really blurs when trying to tell what is and isn’t real, so I don’t know.
Critical thinking training in schools would be a great idea. I'm not entirely sure schools would really want their pupils to primarily think critically. I doubt political parties (at least those in power) would be too keen on a population that thought critically either.
research papers more often than not is gated behind expensive fee, and that make things harder to PROPER fact check either-- if you even got the time. I mean, if people really invest on knowing more, they go to college not to youtube. Imagine just wanting to feel educated and entertained by 100 animal facts and then having to find and crosscheck all 100 informations! I think, making an AI that can do automate crosscheck and list sources could be beneficial on this.
Critical thinking must be one of our first priorities, for all of us. As for the lacking of sources... unfortunately, AI - generated pseudo-sources are a common place nowadays with LLM / chatbots... Very few have the time and the patience to check them one by one..
Critical thinking is key. Would you rather have live in a world where kids are never exposed to questionable and outrageous ideas (an impossibility) or one where kids themselves have the ability to discern for themselves what they should believe in? A good philosophy for raising kids is not the make the road safe for them, but to make the kid tough enough to travel any road. The world is a tough complex place, and neither you, or big daddy government is always going to be there to take care of them, nor should that even be the goal. We want strong individuals who can think for themselves.
I wish adults were less susceptible to this kind of mis-/dis-information. But no one is immune to bias or getting tricked, everyone can fall for these lies unless they stay vigilant and sceptical of the content they consume. I think it would be a really valuable experience for those student to make a fresh youtube account and upload a video within a lesson's hour, to proof anyone can upload content and it can be whatever you want it to be.
I think this is one of the most disappointing and awful things I’ve heard about social media in a while. The only way to combat this is to introduce new rules that will make it more difficult for people to make legitimate content. The whole point of RU-vid was to make great content more accessible and to make it easier for creators to produce that content. Hopefully there’s a good solution to this
LOL it probably is just a typo: make it more difficult for people to make legitimate content? Illegitimate. RU-vid was started with Niple-gate and music video's. That was the first intent of YT. Re watch the trendy things of the youth. And now...? This simple post can be seen as disinformation as well, since it has flaws. Similar to how teachers warned for using Wikipedia and everyone still uses it, it often is the first result on a search engine.
Opinion Piece(its a little long, but topic is very close to my heart) Not only bad science, it's everywhere.. false communal history, misinformation journalism etc.. High time to teach kids(and all internet users) about besics of web awareness, internet literacy as education curriculum.. And most importantly, when science related misinformation are in rise, universities and research institutes should have to take this challenge most actively.. they have to make high quality but easy to understand language videos with animation and arts.. there is a big potential in collaboration of scientists and professors with digital artists(who's career are also in stake due to AI, we had seen in recent NYC protest) There should be more lectures, podcasts, seminars etc should be created.. not in boring manner with conventional setup.. Curiosity isn't a crime, rather it's a blessing, now it's your moral responsibility to capture the curious minds. I don't understand why Universities(atleast public universities) don't spend a little amount of money in making all semesters online, accessible for whole world still in 2023.. I remember, internet's own boy, Aaron Swartz at these moments. As far as i understand, he had a beautiful deeam of opensource collaborative research framework for internet. (I know there are legal issues, there should be robast democratic discussion about these kind of critical issues, rather then just sidelining them. Time has come to make science free, from all it's cages, before it's too late. We are seeing, all around the world, right wing politics in rise everywhere thriving on these kind of misinformation and imaginary theories) More then science, at this moment, we need mass scale 'scientific temperament' in internet's large landscape.
@space-time-somdeep Educators have been trying for 20 years to devise a program to teach high school students to distinguish false information from reliable information sources on the internet. They have failed completely. Fake information and science has gotten so sophisticated that it is impossible to detect without hours of fact checking and access to paid scientific journals. The only way to ensure you get reliable information is to get it from a reliable source.
I was not allowed a smartphone or computer until age 13, high school. I still became super addicted and even dropped out of school a couple of times in part due to my internet addiction and related mental health issues. I cannot phathom what it would be like to grow up with internet from age 1... I worry about that generation and wonder if they will even become functional members of society at all. I don't think kids should be completely banned from using internet like I was until high school, but I do believe it should be forbidden to have their own smartphone, conputer and tv until my age. Using social media alters your brain structure in such an intense way, I think kids should be shielded from that until they reach an age where they have learned critical thinking skills. They should have internet lessons in school every week from a young age, because internet literacy is important, but the HOURS upon HOURS each day wasted on devices (averaging on a full work week's amount of hours, and more!!!!! They spend just as much if not more time online as they do in the classroom) should be avoided at all costs
I think the point is not really just about Children. what about if the Video is covering content which is less obvious to differentiate true or false? what about if everyone is more aware about fake video, which can potentially discredit creator which is creating authentic and quality content human brain is vulnerable to cognitive bias, these fake video is exploiting the weakness of human being While this seems suggest fake Video is generated for profiting taking. but same approach seems can be replicated with different purpose. (promoting terrorism, promoting authoritarian, etc)
@@aquelpibe And? A lot of things go on for years until people realise it creates harm. That will neither prove it right nor make the criticism any less valid. “It's been going on for years” is such a stupid attempt to kill the conversation that it's better to say nothing than this nonsense.
@@Fabian46544 you missed my point. The OP says it seems that disinformation can be used to promote terrorism, authoritarianism, etc. This is not a mere likelihood but a reality. It is actually done all the time and has been for years.
Current Real science has long since disappeared. What is being given us now is truly junk science. If all the current environmentals really what to know the truth the they would dig deeper and learn the real truth and not based on criminal lies. I have been involved with climatetolgy for over 50 years and have always used the real science and not the nosense the pseudoscience of enviromentalist!!!
7:30 yep that’s the biggest problem with our education system , don’t question anything, don’t challenge a fact . Just believe whatever they are saying. And we wonder why there’re so much adults believe misinformation nowadays within secs
Solution: DO NOT let very young children on the internet, simply don't introduce it to them And when they find out themselves, they should be aware of all the dangers and misinformation that they might be exposed to That is a parent duty, the tech companies shall not interfere with it or attempt to regulate it, except for the sites hosting explicit adult content
RU-vid needs to be held accountable for facilitating this. It's all kinds of wrong. Theft of content, deceit in how these channels categorize their videos, and potentially even money laundering through the ad revenue scheme. RU-vid profits from all of it almost as much as the channels that do it. Best way to do it? Not with a lawsuit - go through their advertisers. Talk to the people who fund this problem and ask them, "Why would you want to be seen doing business with crooks?"
that is why we need to teach kids how to become a information literate person . if we not it will be huge problem here is the 8 model. 1 identify 2 explore 3 organize 4 create 5 present 6 analyze 7 evaluate 8 apply . it is like to circle . it is call 8 empowering model
It's been great ... three years of hell from my teenager ... hooked on youtube.. gets aggressive and violent when I take access away. This is why I never let her on screens. Now it's daily and she's watching crap. Endless screen time causes so many problems with us especially those with developing brains. I also know children over 6 that know more about youtubers and youtube commercials then they do their alphabet
Dude you sound very aggressive about this, its possible to have kids use youtube in a sensible way, give them specific free-time. Just revoking any time is not gonna make her like you, she can appreciate it later in life but obviously most of her peers watch youtube, and she wants to fit in. Its a global issue, we keep consuming dogshit social media becuz everyone else does too
I have a "roundtable" of science creators that I have loved and learned a lot from over the years. Kyle HIll one, Anton Petrov, Arvin Ash, Science Asylum, the Fermilab channel, History of the Universe, etc. These are all legit and range my favorite topics being cosmology and physics. Unfortunately RU-vid has also been recommending these AI channels to me and i usually give them a shot if i've never heard of the creator, and sometimes it isn't so obvious that it's AI. Thats the scary part. Some of them its undeniable but others are so "good" at passing the Turing Test that it takes me a few videos to really be able to see behind the curtain. It's been so bad that I often question other types of videos wondering if they are even real people, even when there is a person on the camera talking i drive myself nuts trying to decide if it's a real person or AI generated as now there are AI generated "people" that almost look convincing and the only way to really know one way or the other is by paying attention to facial movements and voice inflection. Scary times man.
The Turing Test doesn't assume that the human doing the test is stupid. There are no convincing AI-created videos on YT. It takes me no longer than a few words to realize the voice isn't real and no more than a few sentences to realize the whole script was written by AI. If it took you, a supposedly scientifically minded person several videos to realize you're being fooled, then all hope is lost.
7:23 When I was growing up I had the exact opposite view. I would often ask difficult questions only to receive insufficient answers. This would spur me on to seek out my own answers at the public library. I *NEVER* just took information at face value...perhaps I was just lucky that both my parents & teachers taught me how to fact-check sources.
Besides, it does seem not so apparent that adults are reflexive and critical, or we shouldn't stand where we are. And secondly, does AI have an independent life or is it manipulated by humans? I wonder.
“We are moving towards a new class division, not longer based on money, but on the ability to use one's critical mind and sort through information.” Umberto Eco
Gotta love those kids. "I didn't believe it before, but I do now." Adult: "Those videos were fake." Kids: "Yeah, I could tell they were fake because of the voice." 🤦🏾♂️
@@zufalllx All governments and media outlets that lie to and mislead the public are opposed to critical thinking, as this would make their lies difficult to prosper.
They are, in many curriculums. They don't help. The lie factory is too good. For 15 years educators have tried to design a media literacy course to teach secondary students to distinguish fake sources from reliable ones; examples are CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) and RADAR (Rationale, Authority, Date, Accuracy, Relevance). They have failed. The only way to get reliable information anymore is to trust in a reliable source. This is admitted in the latest research acronym: SIFT (Stop, Investigate the source, Find better sources)
AI can be used to censor misinformation relatively easily. This requires the owners and managers of social media sites and some government guidance, encouragement, and some regulation to make it happen.
I couldn’t agree more. Feels like these governments are scared to feel like they are censoring their public, when they aren’t actually doing anything and aren’t using this valuable weapon at their disposal to actually fight back against disinformation that is being led in many ways by AI in the first place. Only an AI can defeat another AI. We literally learn that decades ago.
A lot of this bad science is easily detected -- and not just because it uses an AI narration. Consider a line for this video: "The only thing needed for the Great Pyramid of Giza to function as a power plant was a source of energy." A source of energy as in: a power plant. I've long suspected that the real problem is that, from well before the time of ChatGPT, we haven't been educating our kids adequately.
It’s an actual theory. A river flows under the great pyramid. That in conjunction with the sun rising and scattering elections as the sun hits the earth and up the pyramid it creates electricity. Not the first time and not the last. It’s Nikola Tesla. Please don’t believe those that say if u travel too far you’ll fall off the edge of the world. Push boundaries. This video is a hit piece, could have been a legit concept but it definitely had an agenda
I'm a fairly STEM literate lay-person and I still get taken in by these phoney information videos, with their generic stock images and AI voice-over. They have compelling subjects, but are designed primarily to attract clicks, and offer no real substance, only sensationalized topics and speculation. It's best to find a few legit creators that can be authenticated through a basic online search, or recognized institutions such as The Royal Academy.
Technically the quartz laden limestone in the great pyramid could be used to generate electricity via piezoelectric effect. This is an opportunity for learning, not just silencing
Not to mention the porn bots. I’ve also gotten several videos on RU-vid shorts that were incredibly inappropriate. I wouldn’t put kids near this site, imo it should be 18+ until all of that is sorted.
@@appleitree Only watch videos from trusted sources instead of any and all videos that just pop up randomly on your feed. Block channels that even have one tiny thing wrong, because that could be a bad sign for the entire channel. For me, I also block all AI voice channels.
@@user-sf9gs2pg1b Blocking channels that have eve one tiny thing wrong is not neccessary. Almost every channel that has a frequent upload rate will have some small thing wrong. U will block the channel for a pronounciation error or a spelling mistake? Plus often these channels will have a pinned comment highlighting the small mistakes.
We need a new RU-vid. One where you have to pass some Captcha or something to reduce AI content. Also, use that script that checks for copyrighted content to also search for robotic voices. We could easily put a stop to this. Sadly, the almighty dollar will always win out over morality
