{"id":5701,"date":"2026-09-19T14:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5701"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:21:59","slug":"advice-from-an-ai-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5701","title":{"rendered":"Advice from an AI on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t watch TV much, and haven\u2019t for quite awhile. It\u2019s a bad use of my time, and never more than recently, when a friend sent me a link to a YouTube group called Isabella Advice. The link was to a video on prostate health<\/a>, which is a topic of considerable (if fairly recent) interest of mine.<\/p>\n

Well. What we have is a video of Isabella, a pleasant-looking forty-ish African American woman who says she\u2019s an MD. It\u2019s a 24-minute video, and I watched it to the end. By the time I reached the end, I knew the truth: The video was generated by an AI, and although the advice was fairly sound (and mostly aligned with the rest of my research) the presentation was a little, well, freaky.<\/p>\n

What I noticed first were her hand gestures. There were five or six variations, but each variation was used identically many times during the video. She raises her hands to the same height, sometimes alone, sometimes clasped, sometimes just rising at once without touching one another. Her hands remained in her lap unless she was raising them, and the position of her body didn\u2019t change except for a very slight up-an-down bounce. I\u2019ve seen enough videos to know that presenters rarely sit this odd sort of stock still\u2014not for 24 minutes, at least.<\/p>\n

There are captions of what she\u2019s saying, and her voice is good, if a little monotonous. But then\u2026the caption contained a weight, something like 20 lbs. She didn\u2019t say \u201ctwenty pounds.\u201d She said, \u201ctwenty ell-bees.\u201d Later the caption read \u201dwith your daily 30-inute\u201d with the initial \u201cm\u201d missing, and that\u2019s precisely what she said, \u201cthirty in-oot.\u201d (It\u2019s at 16:35 in the video.) She was literally pronouncing typos.<\/p>\n

That nailed it. I\u2019m guessing that someone who knew something about prostate health wrote a script, and the AI voice read it mercilessly verbatim.<\/p>\n

When I\u2019ve watched YouTube, it\u2019s usually because somebody is doing something  visual and explaining it: crafts, ham radio, building electronic projects, robots, telescopes, and so on. The visual focus isn\u2019t 100% on the presenter. I could have read what the AI was saying in probably five or six minutes. For the most part, I research by reading, unless there are necessary graphics. Watching an AI sitting in a chair reading a script for half an hour is truly a waste of my time. I won\u2019t do it again, but I\u2019m going to watch for other examples of AI in use, not just on YouTube but anywhere else I run across it. If I spot any, you\u2019ll read about them here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t watch TV much, and haven\u2019t for quite awhile. It\u2019s a bad use of my time, and never more than recently, when a friend sent me a link to a YouTube group called Isabella Advice. The link was to a video on prostate health, which is a topic of considerable (if fairly recent) interest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5703,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/5703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}