I just noticed there are KZfaq videos complaining about this from TWO YEAR AGO! It's just hit all the electroncis channels in the last few months though. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtOKnsaU1s_DYqM.html

Amazing that KZfaq can somehow detect an F-bomb in the first 30 seconds of a video and remonetize it but they can't scan a 512 x 512 image to see if it has a pair of tits in it

KZfaq is more concerned about Adblockers than PornBots

Funny how this video is Age-Restricted, when you've just shown content they're completely fine with allowing on their platform

Then there are the "financial manager" comment thread spammers.

This has been a problem for YEARS. If this isn’t proof KZfaq doesn’t care about their platform or creators, then I don’t know what is.

They don't care about the porn, they care about the add blockers!!!

Maybe adult stars REALLY enjoy learning about EE theory from you lol

Stuff like that is exactly why I never consider having any pay service with KZfaq.

Dave carefully reviewing each porn bot in depth is not the content I knew I wanted. Man just went for it

There's a sweet powershell script that uses youtube API that can mass delete bot comments and auto block new ones. LTT featured it once.

Instead of addressing these issues, KZfaq puts all their resources into creating updates that somehow always make the platform worse.

The last video on your main channel was flooded with those things. It's insane. This is something YT can easily fix to the point I'm wondering whether it's YT doing this for some reason.

The day when KZfaq realizes they don't need to block ad blockers, they just need to use chat bots to promote products.

... yet if you play just 20 seconds of copyrighted music KZfaq is all over you like a rash! So i refuse to believe there's nothing they can do.

I have noticed those bots around for ages (years, not months). KZfaq *could* implement something that identifies "sexy" account pictures, but it would be expensive. Not because of the identification, but because of the user support needed to deal with false positives. At the end of the day, they have probably decided it would cost more to do that than it costs them in lost revenue.

Dude. "We refuse to do anything about anything you don't like" is THE FUCKING MOTTO of KZfaq, and has always been. Google couldn't possibly care less about what anyone doesn't like about anything they do.

the irony is that the only thing youtube will do to respond is age restrict or outright take down the videos complaining about it

This might be a runoff from the influencer problems. They feed and involve themselves with the bots for views and inflated channel subscriptions, and bot creators then double dip their bots for more revenue.

KZfaq be like: "No fight bots. Must fight Adblockers! Don't care bot. Adblocker bad!"

Half expected KZfaq to ban this video for having naughty images in it.

Months? I think it has been going for well over a year now. And YT still doesn't give a shit.

KZfaqs priority is detecting ad-blockers and showing more ads

It's crazy that they spent so much time fighting ad blockers but we still get spam Also meanwhile when an unlisted video has a piece of suggestive skin in it it gets blocked

I run a retro computer channel and I get comments that will mention something like Pacman or make a very generic comment related to computer games. On closer inspection it can often be a porn bot but there's no link. Not sure what the aim is other than to post legitimate (but clearly auto generated) comments before spamming larger channels.

Funny that KZfaq still allows links in the about section for unverified accounts, but has stopped you from placing them in the video description if you are unverified. All they need to do is have a bot follow links, and if adult content found at the destination (or other questionable content), then block the link. I'm sure Facebook does something similar already; the content remains, but clicking the links gives a warning, and the link isn't followed. That would put the spammers and sexbot owners off pretty quickly.

I am glad to know that I am not the only one getting these porn bots on my videos and yes it is annoying when the first posted comments are coming from lurid channels. I have also been in contact with KZfaq support but to no avail, even with my comment settings set at the strictest. I have one video that had 32 comments among bots chatting with themselves. Something is terribly, terribly wrong.

This is exactly why I refuse to pay youtube and keep using ad blockers.

You want youtube to block or slow down account creation for potential bots right before the end of the quarter? Do you know what that will do to their shareholder report?? (Yeah, it's annoying, youtube could probably be doing more than what they're doing.)

Crazy that the company that developed reCAPTCHA can't detect robots. You have to only conclude it's intentional at this point. How many hoops do they make us humans jump through all the time while these bots are rampant. WTF Google.

A while ago every old account got 4 numbers at the end of it from some kind of conversion I forget about. You can go back and change you name back (if it's still available and you care to do so) So the fact that one of those bots has 4 numbers tell me that it's probably an OLD account that was around at the time of the conversion. Not a new one using some random generator to make a unique account.

The "Add a comment," post appears to be an auto-posted comment that the software counts as an additional comment, because it is actually a comment that the user merely edits.

Something interesting is that at least two accounts (The ones that I checked) have uploaded videos that are at least 10 years old. I guess youtube is monitoring newly created profiles, but not the old ones as much.

Hey Dave. I own the 121gw blog meter. For some reason it’s not reading DC Voltages under 2v. Any ideas as to the problem…cheers mate

How do you get the bigger picture when hovering over the small one?

just need to outbot the bots. Time to create an auto report bot. It's not a matter of if it's hard or not, it can't be harder than content matching, swear word matching, looking for pew pews...

There seem to be three main defenses for these bots to avoid KZfaq's automatic removal. 1: innocuous and human-sounding comments. Their comments are generic and don't reference their account's purpose. 2: linking content from their profile description. Many creators have advertising links in their channel description, allowing them to blend in. 3: Video content on each bot account. It's surprising to see, and I shudder to think where they've collected their videos from. I think automatically removing these accounts would be very difficult, but Google happens to be one of the leading expert companies in machine learning. If this isn't a good place to focus their efforts with machine learning, I don't know what is.

I keep getting ads for deadly heaters. Today it was nichrome wire and a cola can heater, day before it was a carbon monoxide maker with the 3" open flame on a table in a small room. Complained about all of it.

I'd think there would be a way to block the IP address and/or detect certain common data that could be automatically filtered out...

It drives engagement. They don't want to remove them.

"Honey, have you been looking at porn?" "It's those bots, I swear!"

i have seen it myself where i have been getting response comments to comments i post on videos on youtube where its a person acting like the actual person that posted the video. the thing is that they use a different font and they are telling me to contact them. when you go to their page its a blank page with nothing on it. its like they are trying to get your information and do bad things with it

How did you make the avatars pop up full size? Asking for a friend.

It’s on every social media, I get DMs on tumblr, Reddit, and twitter constantly

TheoJoe didn't make a script some years back for creators to run and clean their channels up? Is this not working anymore?

😂 I saw that comment "Your videos are really captivating..." with that profile pic from the thumbnail. 😂 I didn't realize there were that many! YT would rather give me a popup for "cyberbullying" for calling someone an "idiot" rather than work on getting rid of crap.

Strange that the accounts have such old videos on them, presumably dead accounts that have been hacked.

Hi Dave. Just wanted to check the bots myself but can’t find any. Couldn’t you highlight them in the top comments?

Thanks for the nice pics!

THANK YOU for finally being a voice to address this. Super frustrating as a viewer. A similar YT issue is that on mobile they CONSTANTLY show sexually themed ads (a direct violation of their ad policies). I've reported hundreds of them through their awful reporting form. That form has gotten updates to show they're clearly getting the feedback, but they just won't implement some kind of system to stop these ads from being created in the first place.

Gmail spam has been getting worse and worse. Ive noticed the past year or two lots of spam makes it through spam filters.

I think nowaday the 70-80% of the entire traffic from the active userbase in every account based centralized platform is made by bots. It is a distinctive trait of the model itself after all and the trend was known and foreseen from decades.

This is valuable content that I really appreciate! :)

Bots/scams/spam are GOOD for KZfaq as they raise engagement and user counts, keeping the stock up. The investors only care about the quantity of content, not the quality

Your videos are really captivating and powerful lol

How do you pop up the profile pic so fast like that? Is there a shortcut or did you just do with in the editing? I only know how to pull it up in another tab... Edit: nevermind--- a little searching and I discovered 'hover zoom" --- :) ...... who knew. Not me

imagine if youtube were competent and able to remove/stop them

KZfaq should spend way more time on this and deceptive ads. Instead they delete channels with legit content that for some reason KZfaq thinks is bad.

Your videos are really captivating and powerful!

Put comments allowed from (not recent) subscribers only? Seen others do it.

I think someone made DIY filter/script something for yt creators which can do stuff like block any comments with emojis which would in this case remove all the bot comments

Cracked out laughing when you got to the double-bangers part.

It’s funny, they can put all this effort into trying to block ad-blockers, but they can’t do the simple task of scanning thumbnails/profile pics for flesh content, and blocking porn SPAM…..

I'm not sure the numbers thing is something that means that they just created that many accounts. I never had a number behind my name until about a year ago myself, then youtube just added it.

There is an option to "Hide User From Channel" ... that account will never post a comment again.

How do these accounts even get to have these softcore-to-nsfw avatars anyway? Is there really no ML based image detection going on to identify whether or not a potential profile pic is sfw? I'm surprised that's something Google Alphabet KZfaq hasn't tried to implement, considering how good image recognition has been getting and how all large tech companies just love shove ML where ever they possibly can.

I’m tired of this too.

How hard is it to deal with it? Not hard. Lots of sites deal with it just fine. The problem isn't a technical one, it's a manpower one. KZfaq doesn't have the manpower to dedicate to dealing with comment-spam because they've dedicated all of their developers to making the site worse liking forcing the use of a 9MB JS files for every page, making everything ugly with forced rounded-corners on _everything,_ and removing functionality to make things like managing playlists much harder. 🤷

Bots on YT have always been an issue. Most who use things like Google Ads turned off anything coming from YT years ago.

Interesting how none of my downloaders download this video. Is video hosting really that expensive that you can't self host this?

But they expect us to sit through their adverts.

What is the point of these bots? As in - what do they do for anyone? The ones that share links are super suspicious, but you can at least imagine a low information KZfaq visitor being duped into clicking a phishing link. For the ones that don’t immediately share links it’s even harder to understand why they post, what the end goal is.

That "numbers at the end thing" is just youtube including something they didn't used to included. Numbers just showed up on this account awhile ago but its 8 years old.

I think what's strange about them is I've seen them occasionally make actual insightful comments. It almost looks like someone forgot to log out of the bot account sometimes.

As a generic programmer (as, no real speciality) this is still an endless job to detect those and can't be done in the typical generic way. With the AI improuvement recently, maybe it could help analysing comments. For images, working on image recognizions. KZfaq will need resources to both prepare those counter measure and hardware to process that. Then, it could be very easy to workaround. For images, the most silly thing is just to add noice to screw with the analysis.

I get a few of these types of comments, but my videos don't get many views. It's not just KZfaq. I see these on Blogger, Skype, and some Reddit subs. Pretty much any platform that allows comments with external links has this problem to some extent.

I'm impressed you've remained silent for so long on here. It's complete crap and goes to show you how little TeamKZfaq cares about comments and content that isn't a detriment to their business model.

LMAO at least 3 bot comments are instantly at here.

What will eventually happen though is that any commenters will have to register and be verified….

your vids are good, this kinda made my day

It's whackamole. I'm sure they are trying, but every time they do anything it has unintended consequences. Remember when any comment with "too many" emoji were blocked as spam? I participated in SPAM-L and spamtools back in the day, but it's like trying to exterminate ants without killing bees.

It's terrible, and when I try and report them I get an error, "something went wrong, try again later"

If you get rid of the bots I'll have no reason to read the comments!💁🏻‍♂️😆

Looks trivial to detect at scale. Especially because they all link to porn sites.

this would be really easy to stop with AI strategies but then they might get more sophisticated to battle back but even if they did, most would drop out and it would reduce it I think

They can run a video through the backend for processing and demonetization.... But they cant run users profile images through something shortly after upload!? Huh.🤔

I'm Bi-polar, When I watch Dave Jones I have my pants on. And when I don't....

Same issue but with Italian language!

0:50 Dave, the pictures are exactly the reason why I came here, hehe

Interesting. But to be fair, as a KZfaq viewer, who reads occasionally the comments, I never saw them before.

On an unrelated note... I have to click the unlike button twice before it registers? I can hit the like button once and it registers. What the F?

I really don’t understand what the business model is behind this. Are they really counting on people looking at their channel page and visiting the dodgy website?

This yust shows a really concerning problem one layer deeper: google's captcha is fundamentally broken since months (because of AI) and creation of new accounts presumably skyrocketed.

KZfaq clearly doesn't care about their platform, because if they did they would have done something about this garbage.

So how many (automated) strikes for explicit content did you receive within posting of this video? XD

sad. i have had issue getting spamed with all kinda crapt this year the worst ever and it is all going through the spam filters. : (

Similar on twiter/X, they LIKE seconds after you post a comment.

It’s getting off hand

they have to filter the comments to see if they make any sense in the long run.. and even then we have bots like gpt now

The same bot account leaves an identical comment on hundreds of different videos at a time or the same video has hundreds of identical spam comments from the same user. Those behaviors are simple to detect, regardless of the content of the comment or account photo. If KZfaq cared at all.