Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
by mock-possum on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:27PM
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The irony of believers in the supernatural being too easily fooled by ai is entertaining and unsurprising - part of being Christian is being open to ‘fake and dishonest’
And besides, if they like the music, what’s the harm?
It's all too easy to be unsympathetic. But the unsympathetic should remember the soliciting of donations to the non-existent charity for supposedly aiding children; and then bear in mind that there are going to be AI-wielding con-artists in other fields, closer to home, with other hooks for grabbing the marks, too.
Ironically, the religious have rules about doing unto others: be sympathetic to the people conned into giving their money away, in the hopes that they'll be sympathetic to you when you're conned in your turn.
Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
by general1465 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:32PM
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Some AI country music tapes are actually pretty funny - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRkkNr-6V4
Fake, and dishonest, Christian Country Music.
I learned of this through Fil Henley, who just pointed out Ella Scott (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wtyIljNns) which is an AI account with AI-generated songs and thumbnails being produced at an unfeasibly high rate for an actual human. There are astroturfing channels under other names that purport, with more AI fakery, to show themselves alongside Ella Scott. There's an Ella Scott psychology channel tapping into the self-help market. There's an Ella Scott Soulnotes channel. There are not-declared-AI linked accounts on other platforms. Until this all got high exposure, there was an active PayPal donation setup for a non-existent Ella Scott charity.
This isn't even the first firehose account of AI-generated CCM that M. Henley has covered. There has been the improbably double-barrelled James Hilton-Cowboy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HORuCSsDLI) for example.
And there is an audience of Christians being taken in by these thinking that they are real performers.