Transphobic AI is taking over Youtube...

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Hello underachchievers. So, I've been making YouTube videos for a very, very, very long time, almost 10 years. And there have been a lots of ups and downs.

[00:00:08]Ups, including that time I posted my Standby Me cover and it went viral immediately. That was really cool. And that time that I posted the I don't know my name cover, and that went viral immediately. That was really cool. But there's also been some downs, such as the time that I I had to make an apology video because somebody spread a rumor that I hated lesbians. Looking back, that was a crazy one. We have been through a lot together. The point is that you know I have always been quite stubborn in terms of the type of stuff that I post which may come as a shock given some of the bull that I come out with. Good morning underachchievers and yes there have absolutely been times where I have struggled to come up with video ideas for concepts for videos. My least favorite of my favorite things about being trans. But not once in my life have I ever sat down and thought maybe I should ask computer what to make. I've never wished to suck up on the teat of chat GBT or Gemini or anything else like that in order to, you know, do my job, in order to write music or make videos or make thumbnails, that kind of thing. But it's gotten to the point nowadays where I can't really ignore everything that's going on in terms of YouTube implementing AI. And in terms of app like So coming out where you essentially write a prompt and it writes an entire song for you that's just stolen from other people's music, it has gotten to the point now where YouTube's implementation of AI is so difficult to ignore that I'm just mad.

[00:01:24]I'm just irritated about it. Not only is like half the content on YouTube shorts and YouTube in terms of thumbnails, the video content itself, not only is half of it AI, but it's also trying to take away that like creator to audience bond. I don't know. It's freaking me the out. There is an entire tab in the YouTube creator studio dedicated to AI generated video ideas.

[00:01:45]We'll get on to that in a little bit.

[00:01:47]Now, I have a long-standing history of being stubborn in regard to pretty much every aspect of my life. I don't like change. I don't like things being different and that is reflective in every aspect of my life. But a lot of the time it is reflective in the creative aspect of my life when it comes to writing music or making video content. The point is I don't want a person to tell me what lyrics to write or like what instruments to use or what titles to title my YouTube videos. And let alone do I want a computer telling me to do that. One that I have not chosen to ask. But apparently not every creator feels the same way. And I guess for me this is part of the problem. This is also me just like being bitter that people don't view things the same way that I do and I'm I'm I'm very aware of that. But being sort of an influencer for so long, I have experienced a lot of influencer conventions like Summer in the City, Social in the City, VidCon.

[00:02:35]I've been to the UK one, I've been to the US one. And I think the biggest shock for me the first few times I went to these conventions is that a lot of people do uh YouTube and like content creation for for different reasons than I do. Something that was shocking to me was the fact that like some of these people that make YouTube videos and do influencing stuff, they're not like internet freaks and weirdos that didn't fit in in the real world, so felt the need to to to be uh visible online in order to find their people. These people didn't fall into becoming YouTubers or influencers or musicians or anything like that kind of in the way that I did.

[00:03:07]These are people that are like very into the numbers, very into the data, very into what the algorithm is doing and like how you can play it. Like I discovered very quickly that some people make content not for the love of the yap or because they feel like they have something to say, but purely because it's a job to them, which look, I understand this is my job, too. But what I will say is that I'm part of the generation that grew up watching YouTubers like Dan and Phil and Fred and Crabsticks. And these are all people that made content before YouTube even was molded to pay people that put content onto YouTube. Like, this was before AdSense was a thing. I watch these videos of people that were making content just to around, just to be a little silly, just to be a little bit whimsical. And I feel like my problem in regard to a lot of this is that I'm still stuck in the brain space of this just being a fun little quirky thing that I do. But what I found is that a lot of the people that aren't like me or Dan Phil or Crabsticks or Fred or that kind of stuff is a lot of these people will use AI every minute of their life to the point where like it will tell them what to eat for dinner. It will tell them what to title their video, what to put in the thumbnail. You can write a script for a YouTube video in chat GBT. You can essentially be a forwardsfacing real life human person that is not AI generated and all of your content can be decided by AI. And that's without even mentioning the sheer amount of crazy teenagers that have like millions of million subscriber plaque just from pushing out AI generated content that goes viral, I'm sure. But like spoiler alert, I'm I'm just not a fan of any of that really. And that's not to say that I think I know the best way to be an influencer because clearly I don't. I have my own struggles and there are ups and downs. As I said, I am not a fan specifically of the AI usage.

[00:04:47]The attitude towards it scares me. I don't think anybody is genuinely sat confused thinking, "Oh my god, why is a musician not a fan of AI usage in the creative industry, but for those of you that love to use chat GPT to generate pictures of you and your partner in a Studio Giblly world, here is why I'm not a big fan. To put it simply, if we're disregarding every completely valid criticism of AI usage, such as like how bad it is for the environment and how it does steal from creators a lot of the time, probably most the time. My genuine issue with it when it comes down to it is that I don't think that we as humans should outsource thought, especially when it comes to creative thought. I think as a species, we're particularly, you know, don't want to be that guy. I think we're quite special as a species.

[00:05:34]>> Species. I don't want to be that guy that's like well you know the world is beautiful and we as humans are beautiful and special. I do think as a species we are quite special given our ability to understand to comprehend and to communicate complex thought communicate complex feeling. A lot of what draws people to music or to art or to like you know artistic creative video content is that human connection that a human being has thought of this themselves and made it and presented it to the world because they want to share that with the world.

[00:06:04]Every person is unique. Every person is individual. And I think there is so much value in sharing creative experiences, in sharing feelings, in communicating emotion. And I feel that AI in the way that it's being used in creative industries now just completely blocks out the possibility of that happening because number one, it makes people's lives easier. I could absolutely understand, given how busy my schedule is, the idea that I could just log on to YouTube and have YouTube tell me based on its algorithm and all the AI stuff that it puts into it. It uses Gemini, by the way. I could see how that could be a really easy thing to make my life a little bit easier. But it's so destroying to me. Like, don't you think it's a little bit sad and or terrifying that we're essentially starving the quality about ourselves that gives us meaningful value outside of eating and dying? So, for reference, I'm going to show you how this AI system sort of works. I do just mean Gemini. Google's AI, it was implemented into a new tab under inspirations in the YouTube creator studio to generate YouTube videos, ideas, scripts, and thumbnails, the whole thing. So, you go under content, and it's the first tab before videos that pops up. Obviously, I am not condoning the use of generative AI by using this. This is something that I ran into literally by accident, and you can you can tell how little I use the creator studio. So, here's the inspiration tab. It says, "Spark your next great idea. Try a topic, theme, or a question." And because it knows so much about my channel, because it has so much data to pull from, it's recommending transgender experience, LGBTQ culture commentary, internet culture reactions, personal life updates, and queer comedic storytelling.

[00:07:32]I accidentally came across this literally last night. It It was probably like 1:00 a.m. And I wanted to show you some of the thumbnails and titles that it generated for me. Some of it is just bat insane. This is the first one that I saw. My trans AI boyfriend is actually better than a real man. And that is me.

[00:07:50]That That is my face. That is my hair.

[00:07:52]It's missed out on the piercings.

[00:07:54]Obviously, not a great look. I've seen so many AI thumbnails that look a lot like this. And I'm not going to lie to you, I was quite delirious and sleepy when I first read this. I initially assumed that it was just saying that my boyfriend is better than a real man in the sense that like a trans man isn't a real man. No, it's just the AI boyfriend.

[00:08:10]>> But also, there used to be creator contacts that creators had access to, like big enough creators had access to that you could speak to a person at YouTube. They wouldn't obviously sit and brainstorm with you, but they basically do this of like this is what's working on the platform right now. There used to be a person there >> and now instead of a person, it's an AI generated picture of you that you did not ask for or consent to. It's just the fact that it was made by a computer and it's generated me and it sort of analyzed both my personality, my looks, my style of speaking and kind of delivered it in this fun little package like, "Hey, here's a gift for you." As if it's not dystopian as The next one that caught my eye was this one. Are you actually autistic or just queer?

[00:08:51]Sorting through your chaotic personal labels. This is what I mean by like AI being like kind of I'm sure there are programs that work better than this, but like what do you mean? How would you confuse being autistic with being queer? Is this based around people that like, you know, there was that text post going around of people claiming that there was like autistic gender, like a gender, autism gender? It's a bad parody of my videos in in a way that makes me feel both self-conscious about myself and also angry. Next up, we have another picture of what looks maybe to be sort of inspired by me if I had more of a jawline and looked a little bit more like Tucker Carson.

[00:09:30]>> Tucker Carson.

[00:09:32]>> I tried following every viral LGBTQ relationship tip for an entire week and I managed to get the description of what it thinks the video should be before I refresh. We are subjecting our relationship to the absolute chaos of viral queer dating advice. Testing whether U-Hauling on day three or aggressive thrift store flirting actually works. And I understand it's supposed to be like a brainstorming thing. You're not supposed to take it literally word for word, but the amount of content that I've seen on YouTube and other social media that could accurately be described as just being generated by ideas like this is genuinely astonishing. Thrift store flirting. Is that a stereotype? Maybe for lesbians.

[00:10:09]We'll navigate these unhinged internet tropes with our usual irreverent cynicism. Ah, I don't like the pronoun usage. Even who is we? Like what? It is me proving that most online relationship experts have never actually met another human being.

[00:10:24]>> Interesting coming from AI.

[00:10:27]>> We haven't managed to generate self-awareness in these AIs yet.

[00:10:30]Apparently, this I think is the most offensive one. And I think the fact that it couldn't generate a thumbnail for the idea speaks volumes as to why it shouldn't have been me. The absurd reality of being the token trans person at music festivals. This is YouTube telling me that I am only invited to festivals because I'm transgender. This is like a mean YouTube comment. These are the comments that I got when that video of me doing my voice update got like 14 million views and I got the most hate of my life. I feel like that's the data it's pulling from. Not that I'm allowed really to say anything about it.

[00:11:01]Uh, just for reference, behind the scenes, I have been speaking directly to YouTube and people that work at YouTube specifically about AI. I think when it's gotten to the point that your YouTube studio is auto AI generating videos about yourself that are just mean, we've reached a problem. So, those are the ones that I screenshotted last night.

[00:11:19]The first one that it's coming up with today is I am apparently too male for some and too female for others.

[00:11:26]I feel like this sort of AI generated stuff would be more applicable for for channels that aren't based around like someone's personal life or identity.

[00:11:34]Maybe for cut or jubilee where they just put two of the most opposite groups together and try and make them have a conversation. This would apply better.

[00:11:41]But when it's sort of like telling me what I am and what I should present to the world of what I am, quite scary. We are navigating the absurd middle ground where my existence fails everyone's gender litmus test simultaneously. Does it? Am I about to get gender dysphoria from YouTube AI? This is This is This is quite scary because I don't know where they've gotten this from. By dissecting the contradictory brain rot of internet commenters who claim I'm too feminine to be a man, yet too masculine to be queer.

[00:12:09]And then there's like you can click the develop idea button, why this could fit your channel, and then it tells you related videos on YouTube.

[00:12:15]>> But for the transphobic creator out there, >> yeah, >> what is it doing?

[00:12:22]>> I wish you did not ask me that.

[00:12:24]is out there getting these. But >> yeah, >> this is like what does Blair White get in her inspirations tab? Because it is just using the content that you made and regardless of whether or not it's hateful, like the fact that it's even coming up with ideas for me that like are just like kind of just offensive to trans people. And I'm not sat here being like I'm personally like distraught over this. I'm more just like angry and like freaked out over the concept in itself and the fact that when you go into the content tab, it is the first thing that you see. But that's actually a really question cuz like what is what is Joe Rogan getting? Like what is Tim Paul getting? What is Tucker Carlson getting?

[00:12:56]It's just kind of giving people the tools to play the algorithm to their advantage. I understand there are businesses that need to make money.

[00:13:04]There are people that need to make money and this makes things easier because it's giving you kind of the instructions to make a viral video on YouTube. There are just way too many ethical concerns that I feel like have not really been considered in the slightest. So, pause.

[00:13:18]This question kind of stuck with me and my editor after we finished filming this video and he had the bright idea of trying to get into contact with YouTube chat support via YouTube Studio to see if there were any limitations implemented to prevent it creating ideas that you know spread misinformation or spread hateful topics. Now, as a disclaimer, this is all my opinion and does not necessarily represent the policies and intentions of YouTube, Google, or any of their affiliates. Our opinions and views are based on our interpretation and personal understanding of the replies given by the creator support chat. So obviously the first thing he does is to ask if he can talk to a human because there is a disclaimer in the chat that says >> AI responses may be inaccurate and don't reflect YouTube's views. Humans may review chats for quality.

[00:14:00]>> And he got this reply back.

[00:14:02]>> Yes, you are speaking to a human. After asking if the feature is provided for channels built on misinformation, the YouTube support chat says, >> "Upon checking, the inspiration tab is designed for creators who prefer a more visual brainstorming experience," >> which, you know, is just kind of describing what the feature does. After asking theoretically if a creator that makes homophobic content, like conversion therapy, uh, if they would be provided ideas for more content surrounding homophobia and conversion therapy, YouTube support chat said this.

[00:14:29]We could not confirm or deny, but the results in the inspiration tab do not represent YouTube's views.

[00:14:34]>> And honestly, this is about as much clarification as we got. There was a supervisor that joined later on, and they said this.

[00:14:40]>> I can confirm that AI generated content ideas using the inspiration tab in the YouTube studio may be inaccurate or inappropriate and may vary in quality.

[00:14:49]So, they do not represent YouTube's views.

[00:14:51]>> And regarding whether or not it had any limitations on creating ideas on certain topics, it said this. I cannot guarantee that as the answers are AI generated.

[00:14:59]This is why it was mentioned that the inspiration tap in the YouTube studio may be inaccurate or inappropriate and that its quality may vary.

[00:15:07]>> Why are all trans people neurode divergent and obsessed with frogs and fingerless gloves? AI feels like like the sort of want to be quirky approaching middle-aged fun childless aunt that wants to be fun and an ally and she's just trying way too hard and it's really embarrassing and you appreciate the effort but it's really embarrassing. This is what this feels like.

[00:15:28]>> I hear that trans people love those IKEA sharks. Like you know what I'm talking about.

[00:15:32]>> We are dissecting the chaotic overlap between being trans and having a brain that functions like a browser with 80 tabs open. We must lean into why frogs and fingerless gloves become the unofficial uniform for the neurody divergent community while laughing at the absurdity of our own hyperfixated amphibian loving subculture. Like it should not be generating videos like this. We are generating authenticity. We are marketing authenticity that is not authentic. It's not real. It's time to celebrate being trans, chaotic, and incredibly expensive to maintain. It's coming up with stereotypes itself just to argue against them. But also, you can pull like each point of that where it's pulled that from because it's pulled it from your Patreon video where you talk about the costs of being a musician.

[00:16:17]>> I hate I I'm so uncomfortable. Has anyone had a friend that like doesn't really have a personality of their own and the friend just starts slowly like stealing aspects of your personality, taking them as their own? Maybe they take your friends. This is what this feels like.

[00:16:32]Following your video about being the worst trans guy, this topic deepens the conversation on your right to be a multifaceted messy individual rather than a palatable character character character.

[00:16:44]It thinks I call myself the worst trans guy. But this is just like like the amount of people that like maybe make content that's like semi-personal, but also the amount of people that make content that is like fact-based, that is like research based, that like you know if they have a shortcut that makes it easier. I don't think it's that particularly hard to understand why there's probably an insane amount of AI videos generated by stuff like this that has just complete misinformation, disinformation in it because of the AI not understanding what the hell you were talking about when it was using you to make a video. This is like psychosis.

[00:17:15]Like I feel like I'm entering psychosis.

[00:17:17]How is this the same the same platform that I was just posting really like genuine almost crying videos talking about my feelings and now all YouTube pushes is like you know like the big channels SNL they push like alt-right videos that have like catchy thumbnail titles that people will click on and then they push AI stuff because the AI stuff is perfectly molded to fit their algorithm so that it's easy for them to push and guarantee that people will click on the amount of instances of like specifically like hateful abusive transphobic videos that have been posted on YouTube about me that absolutely go against all of YouTube's hateful guidelines of misinformation guidelines of personal attack guidelines. I have reported I've had my friends report and essentially because YouTube did not take them down even though they go against the guidelines. The amount of times that I've had to bullet point and timestamp every single time something that a creator has said about me goes against community guidelines just so I can send it over to a real person at YouTube so they can get the video deleted is insane. the fact that that is something that I've been dealing with for years that I know other people have been dealing with for years in in in much worse cases as well. YouTube knows that that's happening and I and I don't want to blame the people that work at YouTube because everybody that I've met that works at YouTube has been amazing, incredible, like big allies, like a lot of queer people work at YouTube themselves and obviously they don't have control over this kind of thing. This is absolutely the type of decision that is made from people higher up that only have money-making in mind because obviously if you're able to easily generate content that will be clicked upon lots and will have a lot of adverts watched on it, it's a no-brainer for people when it comes to making money.

[00:18:47]But it is just terrifying and like really sad probably for YouTube employees as well that a platform that like once celebrated creativity and individualism and finding niche communities and anything like that. It is just like a real big kick in the face. Kick in the face. a real big kick in the teeth as somebody that's been on the platform for so long, that has seen so many changes, that has seen very different algorithmic changes, seen them push different things. It is just really quite sad. I think it is really quite sad. And not just as a creator because like obviously as a creator myself and as a creator that has these contacts in YouTube to speak to them about stuff like this. I am in a position where, you know, I can't make a change that will, you know, overnight make a difference to how things work like this. But I am in a position where I can speak to people about this and get my feelings out and maybe that will be considered in the future. I feel like the biggest group of people that will be hurt by this the most is is just minority groups because there is an absolute rise in far-right commentary. There's an absolute rise in, you know, straight up fascism. And the fact that YouTube itself is making it way easier for any type of person to make content that, you know, just regurgitates the hateful stuff that they've already said, that's really sad.

[00:19:57]That's really sad to me. I mean, YouTube should absolutely have a system, and I don't know if they're developing it, that absolutely catches out any instance of AI usage and flags it as AI usage because it's definitely becoming a problem with misinformation on every aspect of the internet, that people are just being handed AI stuff, believing it, and spreading it on. I feel like that is a bare minimum thing that you need to do before implementing something like this. And I know that in the future we will look back and be like, "Holy you're living in the wild west of AI because it is developing way quicker than any sort of legislation is coming into place. We need a system like that."

[00:20:29]But something about this sort of thing that we're talking about today that scares me is that, you know, that system might not be able to pick up on a script being written by AI. Like even if they did implement an AI thing that could detect visual AI stuff, there's still nothing stopping people from just writing these AI videos within YouTube itself. I think I'm just going to end this with the fact that like when I started making videos on YouTube, obviously AI was not in mind. I was making videos for myself mostly, but also to find other people like me that would maybe benefit from, you know, somebody speaking about things that they're experiencing that they maybe haven't seen anywhere else on the internet. When I first started making videos, I did not think that I was consenting for years of my life being put into AI and regurgitated back. And genuinely, what is to stop people from nowadays using my videos that are publicly available, putting them into AI, making some bully, some bully of me saying any of the that AI wants me to say, re-uploading it, and just having a different AI version of me on a channel doing that stuff. Like, I just feel like when people talk about trans people and gay people, they always think, "Oh, but like where's the line? Where do we draw the line? Like, if we allow them to marry or we allow them to transition, they're going to be marrying dogs and cats or they're going to be transitioning into mice. Where is the line when it comes to AI like this?

[00:21:44]Because I definitely have not consented to this being a thing. I'm sure in in in the community guidelines, they've added something that I have consented, but I just want to say that is not what I felt like I agreed to when I first started making videos. But yeah, let me know in the comments what you think about any of this. Are you equally as scared or do you think, you know, get over it, Noah.

[00:22:04]That's the way the world is going. Have a good day or don't. See you later, losers. Goodbye. So, welcome to the end portion of the video that is dedicated purely to my patrons who are on the tier titled Backstage Ghouls. Today, I thought I could give every single ghoul an emotion. What emotion is Haley feeling?

[00:22:25]>> Unknown.

[00:22:26]>> Unknown. Next up, we have Charlie.

[00:22:29]Charlie, you are feeling shocked. You must embody that emotion for the rest of the day or at least the rest of the week. Chris, how have you been feeling today?

[00:22:38]Amused. And last, but definitely not least, we have Cody.

[00:22:44]Bliss. Have a blissful day, Cody.