Is Dr. Alex Wibberley (YouTube) Actually AI?

They think they're having a heart attack. So, this is YouTube's fastest growing doctor. But does he actually exist? My name is Nas. I'm well known in the health research space, and I'm currently engineering in AI companies, and I know how AI works. Let me show you an example. Keep watching this AI generated slop for the next 20 minutes so that one day I'll be able to sell you a whole lot of books.

I believe it's only a matter of time before YouTube takes these videos down. But I want you to be able to identify AI on your own. So in this video, I'm going to tell you about the limits of AI factories and how they fit within this YouTube channel. Let's go. So when you're engineering a factory, the first thing you want to know is make sure you understand the problem.

And we can do that by looking at a very simple example of what the problem is and describing our goal. So let's look at an example. Keep watching this AI generated slop for the next 20 minutes so that one day I'll be able to sell you a whole lot of books. So, our goal is to determine whether what I just showed you is AI.

Now, in this example, it's easy because I just made that. So, I can tell you for sure that it's AI. But what if I didn't tell you? You needed to notice that the video was simple. To show you what I mean, I'm going to play the original video on the left side of the AI generated one. Keep watching for the next 20 minutes that one day I'll be able to sell you a lot of books.

So, there was a lot there. We'll go over it one by one, but first let's pay attention to the audio. Keep watching this AI generated slop for the next 20 minutes so that one day I'll be able to sell you a whole lot of books. keep watching this AI generated slop or the next 20 minutes so that one day I'll be able to sell you a whole lot of books.

So the first thing with audio is that the AI had very predictable audio. Like it was smooth. It's exactly how you'd picture somebody saying it. Whereas when I was saying it, it had these natural slash awkward pauses. And the i1 was simpler in movement. Each movement is very well planned and executed.

So for example, let's compare the blinking. The AI does a full smooth blink. And I didn't even blink. So AI was adding things just so that it looks more natural or like a simple human. And then let's compare the hand raises. So again, I didn't raise my hand. Yeah, I was just adding that because it was more in pattern with the rest of the video.

So it's simpler. Just keep doing the same thing. So simplicity is the ultimate telltale sign of AI or AI generated content or AI factories. Let me tell you why. If you make a factory, you want to minimize the cost that it takes to produce something, right? You want to have a lot of output, but you want to have really low costs, but you also want to ensure that all of it has really good quality for AI generated content.

That means you want it to look realistic. And to do that, you have to maximize simplicity. Technically, or specifically, AI engineers minimize what we call variance. And that's because you want to ensure that everything follows a predictable curve. To show you what I mean, look at this plot of blink rate and emotion.

If you were building AI, you'd have something like this. You've got the points that are human output and the line of fit as AI generation. Here's the important part. By minimizing variance, you ensure predictability, which means you only have to test a few of the outputs to ensure that all of them are high quality, right?

Because you can have a human evaluate a couple ones in a lot of detail at a low cost. So this is what AI engineers actually do in production. They minimize variance so that they ensure some degree of quality. And so in the video context, once you have 10 or 30 seconds that are good, you know that the rest are the same and you could stitch them together and you could even change what's being said and their body language for that.

Okay, so that's like scary, right? But what can we say? What can we notice? And how do we know whether something is AI? We can actually do it. Look for simplicity. If it's too simple, it's more likely to be AI. Humans are complex and that's not to say that you can't have simplicity or consistency. A lot of people do that.

But people like want to create different things. They want to test different things. That's just like part of the creative human mind. If you're not testing different things, you're probably limited in some way like an AI factory. But you can imagine that this is on a spectrum. It's from 0 to one. And on one hand you have maybe AI, probably AI, and on the other hand you have maybe human, probably human.

And I encourage you to set your own threshold for determining whether something is AI or not. But whatever it is, know that you should be moving this threshold. As AI gets more advanced, it's going to be harder to tell whether something is AI or human. as AI is able to make more and more complex things.

I personally think we're a long way from that. I can recognize AI from a mile, but a lot of people already can't. That's because they've never had this training that I'm sharing with you right now. All right. So, now that we know that about AI factories that they make simple things, what about this YouTube channel?

Does this YouTube channel make things that are very simplistic and therefore likely AI? So, I decided I'm going to score it in six categories of simplicity. The first category is facial progression for which this channel scores a very simple red X. Look at the videos. His face never changes over 3 months.

No growth in hair, no shaving, no blemishes. I don't know any person like that in real life. Do you know anybody like that? Like I don't know anybody. If if you meet somebody like that, introduce me to them cuz that is awesome. Like to be able to maintain your hair at like, you know, I really want to meet this guy.

The second category is video length for which this channel actually scores a green check mark. Very complicated. A lot of the videos on the channel have a length of 15 to 25 minutes, which is pretty long. Like that's like a TV show episode. So I would score that as a a complicated grain. If it was AI generated, the operator or the owner would have to engineer a really good quality control process.

I think it's possible, but I think it's hard, honestly. So I'm still going to give it a green complicated yes. All right, the third category we already talked about, movement simplicity. The channel scores a neutral yellow circle. So, in my opinion, the channel's movements do seem a bit too elastic. They bounce perfectly like a bouncy ball or rubber ball or rubber band or whatever.

Like, for example, the scrubs fold so perfectly. Every time they crinkle or whatever, they're just like And then it's it's awesome. I It's very elastic, very springy, very bouncy balling. It's I've never seen that in real life. On the other hand, it's not as bad as the videos I generated. I think the videos I generated had movement that was too simple.

So, instead of a red X, I'm going to give it a neutral yellow circle. All right. So, the fourth category is the presence or absence of other people. And the channel scores a neutral yellow circle. So, there are no other people. So, it's very simple, but there could be other reasons for that. If it's a real person, he might be really busy.

Like, he's an emergency doctor and it is a young channel. It has only been 3 months, so let's give it some more time. But, I would certainly love to see this channel on a podcast or something or even like over a Zoom call. Anyways, because it is a new channel and because it could be a really busy person, I'm going to give it a neutral yellow circle.

But, let's see what happens. Fifth category is whether the output is supposed to model a real person. This channel should receive a green check mark for complicated. But there is a catch. So although the character can be traced to a real person, I don't think the voice is the same. Let me show you what I mean.

So the real person was on a BBC show. This is the real person saying every single day in his beautiful British accent. Every single day we get people. And then this is a YouTube channel saying every single day. So the exact same words. Every single day. Every single day. The every single day. Every single day.

Every single day. Every single day. And I turned every single day. Your body. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Okay, that was that was probably a bit much, right? Let's just hear the real person again from BBC.

Boom. Every single day we get people. All right. Now, let's go back to the YouTube channel. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. People. Every single day. Every single day. Every single day.

Every single day. Every single day. Every single day. So, that was a lot of those and all the YouTube ones sound the same, but the real person doesn't sound the same to me. So, I have to give it a red simple X. The sixth and last category is emotional simplicity or complexity. The channel scores a cold hard red X.

Not because it's a doctor making a lot of people think that they might have deadly diseases that they did not know about. Not because of little things like a British person describing their weight in pounds instead of kilograms. No, there are some very subtle inconsistencies. So, let me show you some of the early videos on Facebook.

Uh, but before that, I must tell you that this might have some emotionally triggering stuff. So, if you do have any thoughts of self harm, please seek help. So, I want you to notice the smiles over here after talking about mental health. That's what tipped me off. Psychotic episodes, severe depression, suicidal ideiation, panic attack so bad they think they're having a heart attack.

These are some of the most vulnerable patients we see and they are like subtle smile as he's saying heart attack like I don't think a real doctor would do that. I don't think the real doctor would do that. genuinely desperate. But here's the problem. Community mental see again health services have been neglected for years and years.

The loss of crisis teams that used to operate around the clock now only work office hours because they're so short staffed. They're the smiles are at the end of each line. Psychiatric beds have been cut by 70% since 2010. So when somebody hits rock bottom at 2 a. m. on a Sunday, guess where they end up?

Okay, maybe smile here because of what he's saying. Like, oh, they come to me. Haha, that's right. A and E because it's but like the rest of the parts, I don't believe it. It's the only place that legally can't turn them away and at any one time in So, I think this is a result of telling an AI to appear friendly.

Look, I get it. If you're a nervous laugher, you might laugh at inappropriate times, but this is supposedly an emergency doctor who's had a decade of experience. That would probably be the first thing that they train out of him if he was a nervous laugher. So, I would say that this was an attempt at complexity that failed.

But now it might be able to do that. So we're done with simplicity there and we're going to go through the next category not simplicity that is characteristic of AI factories versus humans. And so the thing about AI factories is that they don't get tired. As long as you keep giving them power, they can run all night.

You also have to give them supplies for complicated factories. And because this is software, you don't need much human labor. Probably mostly in the quality control step. That's what makes AI factories really amazing. All right, so let's score the YouTube channel in terms of three categories for fatigue or tiredness.

The first category is output. The amount of output that this channel produces is it's a lot. But I wouldn't say it's impossible for a human. I would say it's super human, but it's possible for 13 weeks in a row. It's less possible, but it's still possible. And while working 30 hours a week as an emergency doctor, still possible, but less possible.

while supposedly also having a wife and a newborn. I don't know. The only reason I'm not going to give it a red X is because AI factories can actually produce a lot more than that. That said, it could be a way to avoid YouTube's AI detectors. Anyways, I'm going to give it a neutral yellow circle nonetheless.

All right, so the next category in fits ego tiredness is team. The channel claims that there is no editor because it would eat up all the AdSense money. If I got a video editor for this channel, it would honestly cost me hundreds of pounds per video. At that stage, that would completely wipe out my AdSense revenue and then some.

I think that is plausible because the videos aren't all that much edited. And I do feel like it's true actually because if other people were involved in this kind of thing and if it was an antifactory, they would be easily able to destroy the channel uh by sharing receipts. So because that's too risky, I'm going to give it a green complicated check mark.

The third and last category for tiredness is supply chain. If this was a factory, it would need AI models or data centers. I think it's unlikely that a major provider would provide those AI models or data centers for a factory that produces non-genuine or nonauthentic content, especially for producing content about a doctor giving out medical advice.

It would compromise their legal standing. So that said, it has only been 3 months. So it's possible that the data has just not been audited yet. So that's why I give it a yellow circle. So, I want to say that it is possible that the channel experiences fatigue like a human, but for my simplicity threshold.

I personally scored this channel as probably AI. I think you got to make up your own mind based on your own threshold. And then once you've done that, even if you decide that it is AI, you could continue to watch it as long as you know that the advice might not be medically reviewed by a medical person.

But the unfortunate reality is most people won't know. Most people won't notice. They won't see this video. The channel will do everything in its power to avoid letting this video get attention. It might even report this video in the hopes of it getting shut down instead of actually having a response.

And on top of that, the threshold between human and AI is going to change with time. It's going to be harder to recognize whether it's human or AI. For example, in the current videos, it's pretty hard to tell. in the earlier videos to me it was still visible even within a video. Right now it's still visible for me because of the overall pattern.

Okay, so that said you probably noticed that I can also make this stuff. My friend said why not just do the same thing and get a medical reviewer if you feel bad about it but then you know declare that it is AI generated and it is reviewed by a medical staff member, right? You could just hire a doctor.

I could, but for me it feels like cheating other hardworking people. Like I'd rather put all my soul, my face, my effort, fail, and then grow out of it. I think that's the best way to actually make something meaningful. And I strongly believe in the value of human genuine connection. And I also believe that you should authentically empower people to age healthily.

That's like that's the whole reason why I did my research on stroke and Alzheimer's. Mental diseases that affect people more and more as they age, though not with healthy aging arguably. And so be honest to yourself, that's the hardest thing to do, at least for me, what your goals are. Write down your goals.

Write down the actions that you took towards those goals and the results. and do that over and over again until you're actually achieving the health that you want. All right, one last thing. If you want to connect with me, uh, leave a comment below or you could sign up for my newspaper. I'm going to also leave a link in the description.