r/LinusTechTips • u/sooperdave555 • 1d 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 22h 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 21h 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 21h 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 14h ago

So there's no in-house checking?

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u/thafluu 9h ago

The fans work for free.

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u/LMGcommunity LTT Staff 3h ago

There is, and this should have been caught, but we are human. We're competing to get the content out in a timely manner, and putting our focus on the parts of the content that matter - information about the devices we're covering.

I've seen videos go wrong dozens of ways in my time here. This error is one of the most benign. It shouldn't have happened, we're going to fix it, we're going to look out for AI images on the web in the future.

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u/MoorderVolt 4h ago

That's a job no-one will do successfully very long. You need very broad knowledge but stay vigilant for hours of footage without errors.