Comments on: week 9 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/03/27/week-9/ Experiments in Digital Content Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:35:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: LKSOC1004 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/03/27/week-9/#comment-690 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:35:57 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=2074#comment-690 The length of video is kind of concerning to me personally. On the one hand, if there is serious, real video that you need to investigate, I’m sure there’s a way to find a longer or more contextualized version. However, AI content is likely only going to be as long as what you originally see. AI video is often made for reels or TikTok, so its not going to render anything longer than the prompt demands. It’s not going to have more context that got cropped out because it simply didn’t generate it.

I did run into a concerning example recently. I like to watch videos on astrophysics and space. There is YT creator named “Astrum” that I watch semi-frequently, and he pops up pretty often on my homepage. I saw a video come up in the recommended section and it wasn’t an Astrum video, but the voiceover in the video was Astrum’s voice. I listened for about 15 minutes before going to the comments to find out that the channel wasn’t his. Astrum has multiple channels, so I didn’t think anything about this video being on a channel different than I had seen before. Plenty of creators have 3 or 4 channels.

As soon as I checked the comments, I realized that this channel:
A) Was not Astrum’s channel
B) Was not a friend of Astrum
C) The video creator used an AI to model Astrum’s voice and create similar animations to the ones that Astrum uses.

That entire experience made me worried because, in cases like that, there’s no real immediate tell that something is mega off.

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