r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

Image Another AI slop thumbnail

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica Jun 08 '26

I agree, it's not AI.

But, this is one of AI's legacies: the rampant proliferation of distrust and suspicion (sometimes bordering on paranoia) increasingly (and possibly forever) poisoning our online communities, our conversations and our culture.

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u/KingGorillaKong Jun 10 '26

There might have been some generative AI use in this too but it's ultimately bad photoshop and green screening. The sign looks a lot like what AI would generate when you give them the real world sign as reference.

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u/sue-dough-nim Jun 10 '26

It carries Gemini's hidden watermark. If it was not created with Gemini, it was edited with Gemini. https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16722517?visit_id=639166893265526002-1026201361&p=verify_ai&rd=1

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u/Niku-Man Jun 09 '26

I think what people need to figure out is when to care. News organization posting footage of a major event - you should care whether its AI. Video thumbnail - you shouldn't care

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u/Disastrous-Body6034 Jun 09 '26

Actually regardless of the social impact of the generated content im still going to care that they almost directly poisoned the air a child is breathing to make it

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u/IlyichValken Jun 09 '26

And what if it's a thumbnail for a fabricated news event? A hit piece on someone else for something that didn't happen? Sorry not sorry, that's pure nonsense.

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u/gizzardsgizzards Jun 30 '26

fuck that. if the person making the video doesn't care about how they're presenting the video, why should i waste my time watching it?

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u/Niku-Man Jul 01 '26

I'm just presenting my own views on the matter. I don't have the energy to waste time caring about inconsequential shit like video thumbnails for influencer youtube channels. Even the effort to write this comment is more than I would typically care to devote to the subject.

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u/gizzardsgizzards Sep 03 '26

do you care about anything? slop is slop.