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

Posted by masteranza 7 hours ago

Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos(masteranza.github.io)

I'm the developer. I built this because AI-generated conspiracy videos were getting out of control in my own YouTube feed. Weedout is a $1.99 Safari extension for macOS that removes videos YouTube labels “Made with AI” from feed, search, related videos, playlists and Shorts. It uses YouTube's label rather than AI detection, runs locally, and does not catch unlabeled videos.

Source for developers who want to fork or build: https://github.com/masteranza/weedout-for-youtube

Pull requests are not accepted; the repository is for independent forks.

92 points | 31 commentspage 2

singpolyma3 7 hours ago|

I'm more concerned about the stuff that is fraudulent then possibly legit stuff explicitly labelled as AI

masteranza 7 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.

ranger_danger 7 hours ago||

You can charge money for browser extensions? And people pay for them?

I'm in the wrong business.

masteranza 7 hours ago||

It's free on GitHub for anyone to build, use or fork. I've built it for myself, but going through App Store submissions took me 2x the time, hence the price.

0x1d7 5 hours ago||

They require signing which is $100/year.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/app-code-signing-pr...

dathinab 5 hours 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"...

gregjw 6 hours ago|

Safari? Of all browsers? Why not start with Chromium?