- find a random topic tied to their channel, e.g. some battle in Napoleonic wars
- have Perplexity do as much research on the topic
- have AI write a script for 20 minutes of it based on research
- genAI images and video content
- genAI the voiceover
- profit
I hate it.
It's not even terrible content, nor it's not informative, but it's soulless and not very entertaining.
Worst thing is that you're not told it's AI generated so you looking at pictures of the battle thinking they come from real paintings or something, so you maybe want to research more about that painting and it's all fake and not ai labeled.
TikTok has it even worse. I think I've seen the "mother protects child from avalanche on a porch" variation in any goddamn way, with wolves, bears, people, deer, snow tigers..nothing is ai labeled and it all pretends to be genuine.
Most videos about funny pets, which I loved, are also super fake. Labrador saves small child from falling tv, British shorthair chasing mastiff...all of this fake..
AI content should be required by law to be flagged and described how the AI was used. It's bullshit when a channel pops up with a known person sitting facing the camera speaking for 20 minutes and it turns out to be entirely AI generated. The person in question not involved, the textual/spoken content is not their work, etc.
I have been blocking and reporting 90% of the "new" youtube channels that get recommended to me by the algorithm. Kids youtube is also an absolute wasteland of garbage AI generated crap now.
Weirdly, I actually enjoy flipping through Sora every once in a while. Where it is upfront about being AI and a lot of it is quite entertaining.
I would not mind if youtube added an "AI" section where you can generate your own videos or watch AI generated videos, but they need to start banning people that post AI generated videos in normal youtube channels.
It's clear that plenty are doing the following:
- find a random topic tied to their channel, e.g. some battle in Napoleonic wars
- have Perplexity do as much research on the topic
- have AI write a script for 20 minutes of it based on research
- genAI images and video content
- genAI the voiceover
- profit
I hate it.
It's not even terrible content, nor it's not informative, but it's soulless and not very entertaining.
Worst thing is that you're not told it's AI generated so you looking at pictures of the battle thinking they come from real paintings or something, so you maybe want to research more about that painting and it's all fake and not ai labeled.
TikTok has it even worse. I think I've seen the "mother protects child from avalanche on a porch" variation in any goddamn way, with wolves, bears, people, deer, snow tigers..nothing is ai labeled and it all pretends to be genuine.
Most videos about funny pets, which I loved, are also super fake. Labrador saves small child from falling tv, British shorthair chasing mastiff...all of this fake..
None of it labeled. It's slop after slop.