u/IndividualistAW

In Con Air, you see the inmates being inspected prior to boarding the plane. Part of the inspection is an oral exam.

Dave Chappelle’s character breathes into the guard’s face as he is receiving his oral inspection, whereupon the guard belts out the above quote.

I always thought it was just a throwaway joke line (indeed, chappelle’s response is probably the funniest line of the movie), but later it is revealed that Pinball was concealing a squirt gun (edit to add: that he retrieved from his mouth) containing a flammable liquid that served as part of the elaborate escape plan.

Is the consensus that pinball deliberately made his breath extraordinarily offense to dissuade the guard from conducting a thorough check?

I cannot be the only person who is close to giving up on the platform entirely due to the sheer inundation of AI-generated slop. The search and recommendation algorithms are completely broken.

And look. It’s not your fault. When 99+% of content that drops on YouTube is AI, it’s hard to trust AI to sift through it.

So I ask you, the corporate leadership of YouTube, in combination with asking your content creators, to implement a tag that can be affixed to channels featuring strict limitations on the use of AI in generating the content.

For a channel to qualify for this tag, I suggest a few proposed rules but this is by no means exhaustive and I invite other participants to chime in with suggestions.

1: NO AI NARRATION. Period. Full stop. This alone largely addresses the issue. The voice in the video must be a *human* voice. There should be a brief disclaimer in the opening seconds of the video: “my name is ______ and I am a real human producing real content, if that matters to you then like and subscribe!”

2: AI-generated visual aids are allowed, but must be watermarked as AI-generated in a way that is prominent and clearly legible but not necessarily invasive to the content being visually aided. AI is a tool that should be available for content creators to use, but it should not replace human effort in the fabrication of content.

3: AI-generated music allowed but a caption “music produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence” must appear for the duration of the music.

4: there should be a nominal fee for the tag, paid by the content creator. Nothing crippling for one person running one channel, something like $5/month to run the channel and 25 cents per video. This would be crippling to a bot trying to spam 10,000 channels dropping thousands of videos a day with this tag.

5: users must be able to configure their accounts and/or their search results to show only channels that have this tag, or at least prioritize them to the top of recommendations. The tag should feature prominently wherever the channel name is listed.

I think this is a viable pathway towards cleaning up your community and I hope that, if not this, something be done about the invasion of low effort AI-generated content ruining the platform.

Sincerely, a frustrated human.

ConAir (1997) - did Pinball deliberately make his breath bad to discourage a thorough search?