This isn't fully "Hidden" but I've always wondered if Ai scraping is the reason why short form videos on Youtube/TikTok/Instagram featuring film/tv clips will sometimes have 2 audio tracks... one with the actual audio from the clip a little louder and one audio track with a computer generated narrator providing running commentary of what is happening and why. As a human I'm able to tune it out but it is very weird/jarring.

In case anyone hasn't had the displeasure of viewing these I'll link some in a comment below once I scroll through my feed and find one.

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tikhonj 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'd guess it's more a way to avoid YouTube's copyright detection/etc rather than AI scraping per se.

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s20n 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm failing to understand GP's logic here. Why would someone who's posting some TV show's content in complete disregard of their intellectual property rights be bothered about AI scraping?

	▲	threecheese 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Keeps their videos from being taken down automatically by platform content filters. It’s an additive audio track - a running summary of the clip most of the time, and so I imagine this is some fair-usey anti takedown protection. It’s everywhere on short form sites.

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kenjackson 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought it was done to keep the video from getting taken down due to copyright (with automatic scanners). I also noticed sometimes videos will have a horizontal line that runs through it -- I've assumed that it wouldn't get flagged for copyright violation.

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neksn 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn’t that the audio description (AD) track? Maybe it’s mixed in because of an encoding error.

	▲	JoblessWonder 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wish... it is much more generic and touches on the plot which the audio description track wouldn't do. I'll see if I can find one. They are extremely annoying.