The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane

I wasn't planning to make this video and I especially wasn't planning for it to be the first time in the 10 years that I've been working on the Real Engineering YouTube channel that I talked directly to camera and you, the audience, but it just feels like a matter of survival at this point. I

wanted to talk about the recent community post that the Kurzgesagt channel, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, but I don't think anyone does, put up and the impacts it's having on YouTube site-wide. It's just it's not just Kurzgesagt and I don't know if they used AI or not. I'm not here to defend their

channel, but I know this is affecting other channels that absolutely do not use AI. I might be one of them. I don't know.

But they put up this community post and talking about how their recent video got flagged by AI by tools that YouTube has implemented to combat AI slop.

And I find this very concerning because Kurzgesagt is a big enough and influential channel enough that they can find out and correct this, but not everyone can. My channel's performance has been getting worse and worse and worse over the last few months and we are really struggling and I'm not sure

if it's because of AI or because of cultural trends within AI. But I was curious on what detection tools and what the detection tool was actually detecting because it seems like it's just attacking faceless channels.

that just use voiceover. Um and aren't really combating the things that are actually AI slop on the platform because I've been trying to get a channel that's been stealing my voice down for the last six months to a year and YouTube have just told me that I can't prove that it's my voice

and that they can't do anything about it. And that's with me using every resource at my disposal, using my corporate partner manager through Nebula, through messaging people like Todd to ask for advice, through even asking lawyers, can I sue this channel? But that isn't something that's possible and

I don't really want to go through the stress and monetary like requirements to to sue someone. That's a very American thing that I don't really want to participate in. I just want the channel to stop using my voice.

>> each across the region in minutes and a reserve army that can swell from peacetime to wartime over a single weekend. That's Israel.

>> This is impacting voice or faceless channels like mine all over YouTube. And you might have noticed that your favorite YouTube channel, your favorite voice-over faceless channel, has started appearing more on camera like this and this is why because YouTube is punishing us for not showing our face. It seems like

we have to have this like proof-of-life moment in the YouTube video to prove that we're not AI and it doesn't make any real sense and it doesn't seem to work, especially when that channel that's stealing my voice is still up and running without any issue and saying things about Israel and Ukraine that I