Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

 (masteranza.github.io)

45 points | by masteranza 2 hours ago

8 comments

  • ungreased0675 36 minutes ago
    I’d love a small local model that detects AI voices and blocks the content.
  • thatmf 2 hours ago
    I wish I had this but for every website and media surface
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    • mikeweiss 32 minutes ago
      Need the EU, or California or some other large jurisdiction to create a law requiring identifying labels on all AI content
    • embedding-shape 1 hour ago
      Ironically, if you had this for every website, including GitHub and HN, you wouldn't have seen this HN submission / repository :)
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      • masteranza 1 hour ago
        That's also true, you gotta fight fire with fire :)
    • masteranza 2 hours ago
      Well, AI flags this content so it's an easy target without heuristics - that's why I've started there.
  • lukeasch21 1 hour ago
    This is great, but why start with Safari and not a cross platform browser? Is there something native here that can't be done otherwise or is it just personal preference?
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    • masteranza 1 hour ago
      There's plenty of AI blocking Chrome extensions already, however I prefer Safari for personal stuff (and hence YouTube too) and use Brave for Google-gated work related stuff.
  • gregjw 1 hour ago
    Safari? Of all browsers? Why not start with Chromium?
  • Schnitz 50 minutes ago
    I’ve found that the AI label doesn’t necessarily mean AI slop, it just means there’s a non zero amount of AI in the video. I want to avoid AI slop but not all videos that have an AI title screen or whatever.
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    • tadfisher 10 minutes ago
      Now that the AI label exists, the creators using AI for an intro graphic or background music are probably going to stop using it.
  • singpolyma3 2 hours ago
    I'm more concerned about the stuff that is fraudulent then possibly legit stuff explicitly labelled as AI
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    • masteranza 2 hours ago
      True, but that's a way harder problem to solve. For me what was important was reducing the noise as much as possible as fast as possible consistently. Youtube algorithms has been pervasive enough that anything that moves the scale down even a little bit was worth the effort.
  • dathinab 47 minutes ago
    one problem is that algorithms(1) to detect AI generated content are surprisingly bad

    like non-AI generated animated/cartoon content is much more likely to be mistakenly labeled as AI then some somewhat realistic "looking" but for a human still clearly AI slop content

    some platforms (TickTock) seem to label anything as fully AI generated iff the metadata indicates certain tools like Adobe Illustrator are used, independent on how it was been used

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    (1): If that tool is "ask an AI" then its not surprising at all. It's content which AI tried to make look as realistic as possible, the same (and potentially similar) AI will see it as "as realistic as possible"...

  • ranger_danger 2 hours ago
    You can charge money for browser extensions? And people pay for them?

    I'm in the wrong business.

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