This page will be dedicated to methods of stopping AI theft of art while still trying to keep the authentic art consumption experience.
Images
These tools change images to such slightly different shading(on moderate to low settings) that it's invisible to the naked eye but since AI reads images pixel by pixel it will "see" objects and shapes that we cannot perceive. Huge shoutout to the creators of these tools!
Below will be AI image detection tools. They may not always be accurate so I wouldn't advise them being used as sole evidence for calling out AI, but I have had some less tech literate family members believe AI to be real so it can be good for the tech illiterate/non-artists and/or the elderly.
Videos
I in no way came up with this and huge shoutout to Upper Echelon and all the other people who broadcasted and/or helped find this method. If you can please watch their video above to support them. This method works based on the assumption the AI thieves will be lazy and only skim the subtitles(which is usually correct) so pollutes the subtitles with fake ones shown entirely off screen. A human will never see them but the skimmer will and will be unable to distinguish the pollution from the normal subtitles.
Step 1:Feed your video into an auto-subtitle service to get a raw transcription as an .srt file(Upper Echelon and I used HappyScribe which is linked below)
Step 2:Convert the .srt to .ass using Ebby(linked below)
Step 3:Load into a subtitle editor then add in blank lines between legitimate subtitles, putting {/pos(3500,-300)} before each line
Step 4:Either ask AI for an insulting or nonsensical story or a full or partial copyrighted work script(bonus points for Disney ones!). AI also only really functions "optimally" when only fed human written material, so you can both change the message of the video and mess with the overall "quality" this way.
Write a story about an AI slop video creator who loved AI so much he married his AI anime waifu but then its server host burned down because there was no water to douse it with, so the AI slop video creator cried for days in his mom's basement.
Give the full script of The Lion King.
Summarize Toy Story.
Write a story about an AI Slop video creator who went so long without touching grass he turned into Elon Musk.
Explain why AI slop video creators hate their audiences.
Step 5: Insert the story paragraph by paragraph into the blank lines then export as .ass
Step 6: Use the converter tool below to turn the .ass into a .ytt
Step 7: Go back to the video in Youtube Studio and add the .ytt file as the subtitles