SponsorBlock currently helps users identify and skip parts of videos such as sponsorships, self-promotion, filler, and other user-submitted segments. I would like to suggest adding a new category or marker for videos where the content is entirely or overwhelmingly produced by AI.
This would be especially useful for content categories such as history, science, news-adjacent commentary, educational videos, and documentary-style content, where there is now a growing amount of mass-produced AI-generated material. Many of these videos use AI-written scripts, AI narration, AI-generated visuals, or automated editing, and they are often not meaningfully fact-checked.
Why this would be useful
A category like this could help users avoid videos that may contain misinformation, hallucinated facts, fabricated details, or low-quality summaries presented as educational content. This is particularly important for history videos, where AI-generated content can confidently present incorrect dates, events, people, or causes without any sources or accountability.
It would also help users make a more informed choice before spending time on a video. Some users may not want to avoid all AI-generated content, but they may still want to know when a video appears to be fully AI-produced so they can treat it with more caution.
Possible implementation
This could work as either:
A video-level label, similar to how videos can be flagged as containing certain types of content
A new segment/category such as AI-generated content
A warning/notice shown when enough users have submitted that the video is entirely or mostly AI-produced
To avoid abuse or subjective labeling, the category could require strong consensus, a higher vote threshold, or clear submission guidelines. For example, it could apply only when the whole video appears to be AI-generated, not when a creator merely uses AI tools for small parts of the production.
Benefits
Adding this feature would:
Help users avoid potential misinformation
Improve transparency around mass-produced AI content
Be especially useful for educational, history, and documentary-style videos
Let users decide whether they want to watch AI-generated content
Encourage higher-quality and better-sourced videos by making low-effort automated content easier to identify
Additional notes
This would not necessarily need to judge whether AI-generated content is “bad” or ban it from the platform. It would simply give users more context and control, which fits well with SponsorBlock’s existing goal of letting the community identify parts of videos that users may want to skip or be warned about.
SponsorBlock currently helps users identify and skip parts of videos such as sponsorships, self-promotion, filler, and other user-submitted segments. I would like to suggest adding a new category or marker for videos where the content is entirely or overwhelmingly produced by AI.
This would be especially useful for content categories such as history, science, news-adjacent commentary, educational videos, and documentary-style content, where there is now a growing amount of mass-produced AI-generated material. Many of these videos use AI-written scripts, AI narration, AI-generated visuals, or automated editing, and they are often not meaningfully fact-checked.
Why this would be useful
A category like this could help users avoid videos that may contain misinformation, hallucinated facts, fabricated details, or low-quality summaries presented as educational content. This is particularly important for history videos, where AI-generated content can confidently present incorrect dates, events, people, or causes without any sources or accountability.
It would also help users make a more informed choice before spending time on a video. Some users may not want to avoid all AI-generated content, but they may still want to know when a video appears to be fully AI-produced so they can treat it with more caution.
Possible implementation
This could work as either:
A video-level label, similar to how videos can be flagged as containing certain types of content
A new segment/category such as AI-generated content
A warning/notice shown when enough users have submitted that the video is entirely or mostly AI-produced
To avoid abuse or subjective labeling, the category could require strong consensus, a higher vote threshold, or clear submission guidelines. For example, it could apply only when the whole video appears to be AI-generated, not when a creator merely uses AI tools for small parts of the production.
Benefits
Adding this feature would:
Help users avoid potential misinformation
Improve transparency around mass-produced AI content
Be especially useful for educational, history, and documentary-style videos
Let users decide whether they want to watch AI-generated content
Encourage higher-quality and better-sourced videos by making low-effort automated content easier to identify
Additional notes
This would not necessarily need to judge whether AI-generated content is “bad” or ban it from the platform. It would simply give users more context and control, which fits well with SponsorBlock’s existing goal of letting the community identify parts of videos that users may want to skip or be warned about.