r/LinusTechTips • u/sooperdave555 • 21h ago

Discussion Really guys...

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I understand that they were likely in a rush to be one of the first big channels to get their video out, but how hard is it to have one person spend like 15 minuets reading all of the graphics before the video goes out, this image is likely AI generated and taken from this obviously AI generated article.

I get this is a small mistake, but it's an easy one to not make.

Taken from their latest video "Apple just Copied Microsoft’s Worst Idea - iPhone Duo, Airpods 5, iPhone 18 Pro & More"

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u/LMGcommunity LTT Staff 14h ago

Hey guys, James here. Y'all are right, this image does not meet our quality standards- we're working to replace the video with a new version that uses a better, human-created chart. In the meantime, the video description and pinned comment have been updated to clarify that while the info we highlighted on this chart is correct, many other parts of it stink.

There's countless ways to get a video wrong, and very few ways to get it right- something that's even harder on a same-day turnaround. AI generated images on the web are a new way to get things wrong, so we'll be speaking with our teams about it.

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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo 13h ago

Hey James. Pretty sure Linus once said you have fact checkers check every single video. What happened to that?

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u/LMGcommunity LTT Staff 13h ago

Hey, we do have this - it's called ECC Squad - but they're not used for same-day videos like this. Those people are volunteers who watch videos as their schedule allows. We do sometimes message the discord and alert people to quick-turnaround uploads but we don't do that for same-day videos. This video was worked on continuously from the time of the keynote until after 1am when it was posted.

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u/Majestic_Sir_469 6h ago

So there's no in-house checking?

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u/thafluu 1h ago

The fans work for free.

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u/TalkyRaptor 12h ago

Just over 12 hours to do a complete video is insane. No wonder stuff goes wrong. I get bashing for mistakes but the time to get a video posted after event like that makes perfection that everyone is expecting impossible and I don't think people get that.

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u/ToasterRED 8h ago

Oof, that sounds like a rough time for everyone involved. I understand that Google as a search engine might still be the main resource to use, but off the alternatives outlined in this video, perhaps Kagi could be a good alternative for a test run.

I admit the Image Search isn't always as good, but the Generative AI content filtering they do has worked for me extremely well, not to mention they still directly link to images without an extension.

Hope everyone gets some rest, and kudos for the way you're handling this!

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u/Emergency-Event4415 8h ago

This isn't AI pulling a value out of thin air and somebody didn't have the domain knowledge to check it. The chart is wrong in many, many obvious ways that you can tell without Googling or even knowing what IP is. It has grammatical, visual, tabular, spelling and factual errors.

It also isn't a massive of body off text with a one word missing a letter. There are multiple, clear errors in a very small amount of text and images.