I'm a software engineer of 25 years, and I totally agree with you on your opinion of this type of AI 'assistant'. I always look for original and genuine people and content. These tools will just make it even harder to find the type of content I enjoy. Thank you for discussing this topic.
Yesterday, I read on Slashdot that IA training is hitting a wall. Not enough data on the internet to train, too expensive to train. They are about to hire all of us to feed the machine with contents like slaves if they could. Not enough electricty. Good news. Proof that parooting is not reasoning and creating.
I've spent a lot of time in screenwriting groups so I know what most "authentic" people tend to write (pretty bad). I've also worked on some AI writing projects and have been pretty shocked out how interesting some of the short fiction it came up with was. I know that if it showed up in a writing room it would get positive reactions. Hollywood pumps out a lot mid-tier shite right now so I don't know this is any worse. To me, this technology will likely amplify the output of people with talent. They curate the ideas. Well, that's exactly how a Hollywood writing room operates now. A Show Runner curates the ideas from a group of writers. This evolution reminds me of when Photoshop came out. There was a lot of skepticism from traditional "artists". Now, everyone has PS in their tool kit.
@@-Thunder I hope you're right about machine learning favoring work that exemplifies talent. I also hope that AI can discern human curiosity and human problem solving as "high level" talent, because human curiosity and problem solving is what drives innovation.
The youtube studio stuff are all very helpful indeed, to make some good content, but the videos themselves are best when its just raw, in your studio room, personal, and like chatting over a cup of tea and a biscuit while you play the pedal / gear you are showing off. Keep it real. Your videos rock as they are. :-)
I think that this is a step in a bad direction.Creativity is something your should need to put in the work for not just click a button. Maybe there are small nuggets of ideas in there that a creative person could take and make much better, but in general Im not a fan. It's making it all too easy. This has the potential to remove all personality from creating videos . I've Been making videos for 13 years I don't need AI to help me make my Mid tier videos 😅
"Creativity is something your should need to put in the work for not just click a button" EDM would probably like a word with you out in the alley. lol "This has the potential to remove all personality from creating videos" Same was said about DAWs and music. Bright side: It also has the potential to make content creation easier. Which hopefully means less teary-eyed "I'm burned out on the YT creation grind" videos. : )
Come on boys. Don't sell yourselves short. You are both legends. I put you guys in the same category as Paul Davids. If you guys are mid-tier and below, 99.99% of the rest of us are straight trash. The nice thing is there is room for all of you and you each have your own vibe and feel. Just don't let the AI turn all your videos the same. 😉
We need a "made by people" label like the "Guaranteed Irish" emblem that is awarded on hitting the correct criteria. Then youtube can add a filter for that. That would kill ai shit overnight, as long as we could trust the label
Metrics of any kind, whether it's TH-cam, number of customer's served, or someone's "apparent" productivity at their corporate desk job, leaves out the one thing that matters the most - human relationships and their longevity. It's the emotional response that we have to things that makes us return for more. That's how relationships are forged.
Looking good in the G66 tech jacket Leon! This is one of your best videos ever. This is a really interesting conversation. I'm currently undecided on whether or not I want to deploy AI for music creation. I'm using all kinds of of "AI assisted" plugins. As a professional recording, mixing and mastering engineer with three decades of work experience, I don't need to turn to AI assistance and could easily reject it, but I have found some new types of processing that it does that we can't do, and that is hugely beneficial, especially to a trained engineer who knows how to best implement it. I think this ties into what you're saying about how AI assisted suggestions can push us to explore some new ideas that help us to grow outside of our comfort zone. I welcome self-development. I read a lot of books such as "The Zen Of Creativity" that push my way of seeing creative artistic work. I personally don't see the difference between getting inspiration from a book, or getting inspiration from AI, as long as the AI is geared towards me specifically and my personal applications. I love this kind of content where you speak about new technology innovations. I admire your attitude on self-development. The feeling is mutual. I also love your honesty and fearless opinions! I'd love to hear what you have to say about CERN, the world's largest and most advanced particle physics laboratory and other highly productive "higher frequency" work that humans are doing, while most of the world is distracted by the onslaught of "lower frequency" (shite) media entertainment.
A personalised AI assistant that is able to learn your routines/habits and streamline them is very attractive. "I see you've doubled the guitars - do you want a plate or hall reverb with chorus or detune for extra width?" or "I see there's two camera angles and what looks like a guitar pedal in one - let me scale them into a single shot while you edit" would make it even faster to do what I do.
You are talented, creative, informative, intelligent and entertaining. No need to do anything but what you bloody well want to! You and your channel are unique and that's why you will always stand out. Do what you want, your fans will love you for your integrity. Happy New Year Leon!
I'm glad you got there a beat before Henning, as, while I'm looking forward to his rant on this specific subject and no one person's reaction/work-rate is more valid or interesting, you're a super hard working dude and don't typically cover slop, all of these points are super concise and serve as a solid alarm bell summary for what the A.I. crestion function may come to serve as
This is a surprisingly refreshing take in a world where most people just say "AI bad!" and then end the discussion. My biggest concern with these kinds of tools is how they will aid the already rampant fully automated generated videos that viewers can no longer moderate with the like/dislike ratio indicator.
I tend to give those types of videos a miss. Same with AI generated narration, often filled with mispronunciations. Calling them mid-tier is generous. I share all the concerns you raised here and I worry that we’ll arrive at a point where we stop trusting in almost everything TH-cam suggests, even down to the most innocuous of subjects. For me AI underscores my appreciation of genuine and trusted channels like yours. You have an authenticity and “down-to-earthness” (and talent) that will never need all this computer generated bolleaux in order to be engaging and entertaining. God knows where it’s all heading but in the meantime thanks for keeping it real. A very Happy Christmas and New Year to you and yours. All the best. ✌️❤️
Great video. Creativity, exploration and the beauty of bringing your unique personality and unpredictability is MIA. And that's a great point about your mental health & connecting to others.
Brilliant vid mate. Youre like 150 steps ahead of legislators and media executives who aren’t aware of the wider ramifications of letting tech like AI into our lives and work.
I just realized that even if it’s unintentional this will literally destroy creativity and the drive for accomplishment with controlled art (to a degree). Just imagine generation with no aspiration to create or use their imagination. I mean music is also ideas in some cases so that’s like censorship in a way (destroying people’s exploration into sharing ideas through art).
Bingo. Not only that, have you noticed how many AI based plugins are coming out? Waves, izotope, and so on… I’m all for ease of use, but I’m not looking forward to whatever is going to come from this. Can you imagine? It 100% becomes people doing the work of the algorithm to feed itself what it wants to see more of… holy sh*t.
The last point you make is a really interesting one - most of this new tech is also acting as a way to move wealth from the poorest to the richest, so it creates both economic and information poverty.
While the human element is still very much present in TH-cam videos, I feel like as soon as this platform became a source of income for many, they had to conform to the algorhitm and that in itself had already stripped a lot of creators of their freedom and forced them to adopt the rigid structure of releases. It was always going to be a slippery slope. Sure, the production values had increased but the amount of videos that is required so you don't get buried under, inevitably results in mid tier content anyway because you will not always have ideas that are absolute fire. The term "content" is very apt. When I think "content", I think "a bunch of non descript shite, designed to fill a space" and most of it is exactly that. Just the sheer volume of it is actually off putting to me. With this new "AI" tech, it's simply gonna double down on what I mentioned and further contribute to TH-cam becoming a homogenous, "meh", platform, completely devoid of any creativity and individuality. It all started years ago and this is just another nail in the coffin...I dunno, excuse my ramblings
Great video! Definitely appreciate your perspective. I do think though, as MKBHD puts it “this is the worst this feature will ever be”. Definitely don’t need anymore mid-tier shite on youtube
It's great that the tools exist so that anyone can be "creative" with just the click of a button, the only issue that arises is what happens when everyone clicks a button and calls that creativity. It is worth thinking about and discussing, what and where is the art? I am off down the rabbithole
well, my friend I completely agree with you 100% unfortunately like you said we saw it coming and it’s gonna make it even easier for people to just pump stuff out that like you said is it really worth it? Darn that is either medium or low-grade content but overtime I’m sure people will catch on and know what to look for and not look for especially if they’re getting into doing their own channel content themselves on whatever it is, but there’s always plus and minuses to everything what you said was very well said, and I agree with you
I could not agree more. It is a great dive into the dilemma that we all are starting to face today, not only on TH-cam: being more productive at the cost of loosing ourselves and becoming the 'slave' of AI and algorithms (or other stupid data driven 'value' metrics)... I hope that people will choose the right pill!
Hey Leon, Greetz from Germany! Completely agree with you here, this is goin to reward the wrong type of content and seems to suppress real creativity. I would use it as the 'ANTI-tool' and explore only those things that are marked with low interest LMAO Rage against the algorythm!
I think this could be a good tool to help launch video ideas. Hopefully it is taking from topics people are searching for. I guess it all depends on what you do with the analytics given to you.
A.I. is good for increasing content volume, but it's at the expense of content quality. It will be interesting to see if it evolves into something with a better balance. Until then, I hope you keep doing videos the way you have been.
Why are we using AI for the fun creative stuff like music, art, video etc. why can't it be for like, writing emails to your real estate agent or mundane life admin tasks. We are going about AI all wrong.
So what happens if AI looks at your content and says to itself, He's not listening to me?? will it have an effect on your views?? I guess we will find out. Merry Christmas Leon!!
When everything gets automized, will we enjoy ourselves? Id rather have the robots do the hard and boring labour rather than creative. People will dumb, bored and have no dreams or hopes. This is truly stupid.
I guess we're not too far from the beautiful reality wherein a youtube algorithm measures the popularity of a video created using solely AI, based on the interaction of bot accounts. No human interaction required.
Oh ok, this was informative! Ok this is sort of cool, I didn't realise AI was used for bundling ideas together into a list, as long as it's not creating false content....and after round up all humans for processing and reprogramming.
AI can never come up with completely original ideas. "Most people don't, either!" they might argue. But the fact remains, without human originality, it cannot function.
Well, this might be good for some musicians but not all. I've got enough material to put down some 4 or 5 LP ...translated 50/ 55 songs already and new ideas translating soon into new ones so ....luckily enough my inspiration is not drying so soon ...yet 🙂.
Yeh this is worrying on two levels. Firstly it could create a lot of content that lacks authenticity - which I like to think most viewers will be able to see through and it will eventually correct itself to some extent. Secondly might push content creators into areas that they aren't the most qualified to speak about, but feel the need to do it out of financial pressure. This is potentially dangerous for health and lifestyle channels where getting it wrong could have serious consequences. Not good!
In a world where disinformation has become superior, one only hopes that creators make genuine choices in how they present their realities to the world to view. I do believe their should be disclaimers like sponsored videos. Something that denotes AI being present in the video or used in the creation of the video. That way the viewer is not led to believe without warning.
AI Shittification. Whatever you feed the AI with will be what the AI spits out. This "Inspiration" is just a marketing tool, based on the metrics, illustrated in another form. I don't find it exactly mindblowing. If you work in an ad agency you operate based on metrics. Things that work get used again. There is nothing inherently creative about it. Using the "Inspiration" would be you do the same thing as others. You are completely right. The real creative people would put out their own thing regardless of metrics. It may not work, but if it does work, it really works. I'd rather see some really creative stuff that likely fails but may be makes me laugh, gets me thinking or inspires me. All the algorithmic reflexes to make videos in a certain way lead to the silos you described. It's static.
The audience as a whole is smart. they will see through the 'veneer of legitimacy' and just stop following people churning content. I haven't posted a single video in December despite being the best time of year to just make anything, because I haven't felt any creativity to make something worth watching. I think so long as a creator respects their audience, people will see it and eventually you can build something - if you start playing games like this and just posting shite as you say, the opposite will happen. just my 2 cents.
Sounds like we use these tools in the same way. I have found Chat GPT is amazing for research, brainstorming title ideas and fine tuning the videos that are more scripted. These tools also get lot of stuff completely wrong especially about guitar gear. I tried writing reviews about guitar I demoed using AI and and they can output are generic Guitar World style articles with no real substance, just hype. The video ideas YT provides could actually be really useful, especially if they are tailored to our channels!
I’m not a fan of all of this AI nonsense and I’m struggling to see the net positive for creators. I agree with several of your points, those AI suggestions will just accelerate the race to the bottom and result in more videos that are just a rehash of other videos. To a degree, YT is already on this path, whenever I watch a video, it shows me more videos of the same type that I just watched. I rarely watch the same video twice, let alone five videos on the same subject. That is quite frustrating and in combination with the relentless advertising, I’m feeling less inclined to watch more videos. So far I’m not convinced AI has much to offer creative people and original ideas.
Excelent marketing decision for crowd who believe thers a sound of wood in electric guitar and pays milions just because theres brand sticker on the headstock
Yeah man, can’t help but think this kinda thing is going to make people create the same sorta things - which will be lame and as un-creative as possible. I use AI stuff on occasion but will stay clear of this sorta thing I think
AI depends on aggregate data to create monolithic cultures. Big brother is feeding people to look and think the same way, like the same thing to profit from it, while cannibalizing creativity.
This will just lead to more and more channels that are just put up by people trying to create revenue streams. They have no interest in the subject matter or the content. Eventually have software that’ll interact with this for them so they don’t even have to waste time creating channels.
Those thumbnails would be a dead giveaway lol they look so AI. Agree that the initial overview actually looks decent. It could be a useful too. but before I even hear any more of the video, the problem is it could be a good tool for someone like you who may take the ideas and develope them in your style and probably the video would fit seemlessly into the rest of your content but you know, you just know, some idiots with no history in this subject will start pumping out these videos with literally no input or adaption, just take what youtube gives them, use another AI tool to generate the footage and upload. And TH-cam will bloody promote that sh1t too! This already happens a lot. I looked up studio monitors the other day and the same will happen anytime you look at "best x in 2024" etc. you get videos with AI voice reading add campaigns and providing affiliate links". this one was rating the monitors on sound quality etc and saying things like "It has a reputation", "people say..." so just making up bs ratings for the sake of posting a vid with affiliate links. EDIT: A video on isotop ozone would be cool! I have recorded some tracks in the past and mixed them but never "mastered" a track/s. would be great to do a video on that mastering and mixing stage for home studio or hobbyists
yeah not a fan of ChatGPT for creative assistance. its magic for practical "how to's".. an instruction manual. but the best youtube content is someone's passion and as you say.... "low interest"... because the whole idea is to find something that's CURRENTLY low interest and make it exciting. I agree on all points except for the "misinformation" tangent. I think every opinion & type of content should be allowed on youtube. let the crazies reveal themselves. - cheers mate. merry Chrissy to you & fam
Bad AI generated imagery means we'll finally move on beyond the clickbait, exaggerated, shocked face thumbnail. What we need are multiple video publishing platforms competing with TH-cam so innovation occurs not only in content creation but in creating better algorithms and thus better content publishing and monetization conditions. Pending litigation in the U.S. to break up Alphabet, or at least Google, and hopefully TH-cam, may improve that process, although I hope it occurs in a way that is not overly disruptive to content creators' revenue streams. That said, I'm surprised so many people, both as content creators and consumers, have been more or less satisfied with a single content publication platform for 20 years now. A single platform simplifies content creation to an extent, but it also means you play by TH-cam's rules or no rules at all, effectively making it "OurTube" or "TheirTube" or "BigTechTube." With a lack of CRT monitors, there isn't even a "tube" in it, anymore. We can say there's "competition," yes, but we all know token placeholders like DailyMotion aren't going anywhere. And a final downside to all this AI assisted stuff is, as the content creation process speeds up due to AI, the more content creation will need to be automated by AI for content creation to remain productive, competitive, and profitable. With AI as a content multiplier, my guess is the amount of profit per minute of video produced will go down--just as an assembly line allows you to churn out more widgets but each widget is worth less, which is made up by selling more widgets. More content means more average stuff, which means more fragmentation, which means more of the siloing mentioned, which means on a platform with billions of contributors, only a few are going to get on top. But will they get there because their content is actually good, or because their content feeds the algorithm? Because although it may seem behavior > algorithm, once the algorithm is entrenched and working, it's actually the other way around. A solution to this may be content creators banding together to create their own streaming services that, via a paywall, in a sense curates the quality of their content. But I think Patreon already does this to some extent. So as usual, starvation in the land of plenty. Chicken or egg. Cart or horse. Ouroboros. What made me subscribe to this channel and its excellent creator are the human aspects TH-cam and its AI tools are not good at measuring or creating. There were no ridiculous thumbnails. There was no clickbait. Just someone who really knew what he was doing and cared about his audience. I just randomly searched for someone who was knowledgeable about 90s style rack tube preamps I grew up on like the Triaxis and JMP-1. I stumbled upon a gold mine of information, an incredible player, and a great guy. I worry the AI aspects will take away that human touch. About the only curious thing I've ever found on the channel: why was Leon wearing some variation of all purple in "Which Power Amp? Tubes vs SS for Modellers?" Maybe he was AI generated imagery 6 years ago and we are now dealing with an even more human version all these years later. And technically Ratt was never underground. They were "Out of the Cellar." A non-AI Leon will see what I did there. ;)
Thanks for taking the time to really "Lay It Down" here. Great, great point regarding the status of YT as the de-facto "only place in town" to publish video content. I've been loosely following some of the anti-trust murmurings with big tech over the last decade and wondering if or when the threshold will be crossed to break up the tech titans.
Anything that provides a spur of inspiration leading to a creative product has worth, obviously. I too use Ozone and love it-- as a starting point, and that's the key, I think. Nothing wrong with using AI as a tool for idea generation, any more than using the riff from a well-known song as inspiration. But the cynical and skeptical side of me won't underestimate the power of human laziness. Let AI do it all. I fear the onslaught of mediocrity. Hope I'm just totally wrong.
IMO, use whatever tools that are available to you to improve your productivity and reduce your workload. Like guitar gear, AI is just a tool. When content creators start abusing it, the viewers will notice. Especially when they see six fingers or the word “elevate” in the title. 😂
i agree the most interesting suggestion is the 90s movie score with "low interest" rating. it seems to me it is rated that way because there are very few videos, and therefore very little data, to support it. where the "high interest" videos as noted have been done to death, so the data says "a lot fo people watch this, you should make one too". i dont see anything useful here. your own ideas and personality following your curiosity will lead you to great videos. who thinks Jim Lill's videos could have been done with AI suggestions?? anyone? companies have invested a lot of money in this AI stock and are trying to find a problem to solve with it. my opinion remains: its next to useless
There's time and place for AI IMO, but this ain't it. As a former Googler, I can say this was created by someone at Google for the sole purpose of having "shipped" something, which is a prerequisite for getting a promotion. Whether it's any good or whether the users like it is completely immaterial in that scenario. It's basically a three step process: 1. Ship the thing, 2. Get the promo, 3. Move to some other team outside the blast radius of your "misfeature".
@@LeonTodd depends on the organizational acumen of the director in that chain of command, how much they like the feature, and the degree of damage from the blast. If they do like the feature, and initial blast is not too bad, someone could eke out a promo by "improving" the feature (and then moving out of the blast radius of their improvement, obviously). Or if it's a product, _all_ people could leave the team, and then it rarely survives for more than a year. It's a cursed system. But that's similar across the entire tech industry, especially Big Tech. The best way to get promoted is by shipping stuff, and managers usually can't tell a decent feature from a hole in the ground. The best way to switch teams (or companies) is right after a promotion - you aren't getting promoted again for a while in the old place no matter what you do. This set of perverse incentives generates a tremendous amount of disarray and suckage, but nobody wants to fix it because that's how everyone climbs up the ladder.
The major problem with AI is that it will use everyone's ideas that exists out there and make a mish mash of it all... What will eventually end up happening is that it will start to present the same things to different people.....and if people always take the suggestion what AI is providing cause humans are lazy.... then no new ideas will happen....and then AI will just keep suggesting the same things over and over because AI will not get any new "data" from humans. I am also pretty sure AI is not at the point where it will say oh, I suggested this one thing 2 million times already and should I stop suggesting it now cause I am not able to come up with anything new....nah, just show the same mish mash of what already exists out there AGAIN! This will be the vicious circle of AI and lazy humans who will slowly stop thinking of new things !! LOL ........In my opinion, AI will amazing in a controlled environment where you inject data and see the results and if positive, move forward otherwise remove the newly injected data to keep the AI clean of bad data so it can continue to make the right decisions in the controlled environment. but on the web.....AI will be filled with garbage data as there is lots of garbage out there.... and hence humans will start to use that garbage to be creative!!! lol cheers !
If one starts by deep thinking what AI is shorthand for, Artificial Intelligence, its purpose can be better understood. To wit: a person that is already blessed with above average intelligence doesn't need, nor will they benefit very much from, such a thing; but a person who is not very intelligent can use it to seem more intelligent than what they actually are, artificially. Perhaps the upside to this specific use of AI (TH-cam) is that people who have valuable content to share but lack the intelligence to present it in an organized and/or entertaining way, will be able to better share their content. On the downside, the example that worries me the most is that short and to the point how-to videos, that let me get right back to whatever I was doing, will be replaced by ten- or fifteen-minute videos wherein the valuable content is buried in fluff. Using AI technology to make someone seem more intelligent than they really are, is patently deceitful in other, more salient, contexts like curriculum vitae and college dissertations where judging a person's actual intelligence and/or capabilities is important. So, since you are proven to be capable of making excellent content without AI, you could perhaps use the TH-cam version to spark your imagination in "dry spells" and other such ways but I, for one, don't think you will otherwise benefit much from it; at least in its current iteration. Happy Holy Days to you too!
Personally I think we’re overestimating the impact AI’s going to have. With some exceptions, people will seek out truly creative individuals and see through AI-produced content. We’re already seeing this happen. A great creative, with great perspectives and personality will always be sought out and valued. I hope I’m not wrong.
@@CJ_Wolesz Yeh you’re absolutely right. It’s certainly going to be interesting. For me, it’s going to encourage me to experience more live settings for myself. I’m not anti-AI at all and I use ChatGPT daily in my work to help me be more productive or overcome specific challenges. But I can see many people becoming instantly nauseated by AI (and its impending overuse) and therefore driving growth of the ‘experience’ customer; people who want something real whether that’s live music, bungee jumping, sea fishing... The stuff where seeing is believing.
i feel like AI is unfortunately kinda just destined to result in mediocrity a lot of the time. it could maybe be used as a tool to aid creatives but honestly is probably only best for doing menial tasks.
Uggh. Another human creation gone bad and misused. First lets homogenize human creativity……but worse…..let’s ask ourselves “why in the world would YT provide content creators with such a tool…..WITH analytics on projected “interest”?” Because…..YT wants to create more revenue generating content creators for their own profit driven benefit!
After watching your video it is obvious this is designed to generate middle of the road content to engage the randos and generate indiscriminate traffic. It’s not to inspire the creator, it’s to churn more pink slime.
I've seen and heard quite a few AI generated 'albums' on TH-cam, They can be impressive, but they aren't quite right, I can usually tell within a few seconds if it's AI. I dislike it. While I'm at it, I am so tired of all the AI generated fake trailers for movies on TH-cam these days too.
It's also lacking context - my favourite songs aren't just a collection of cool sounds, they're interwoven with the life experiences and motivations of the artist.
Very good points raised here, but try not to call what you produce as that horrible generic term ' content ' , thats a huge part of the problem, you're not producing bland time filler, far from it.
Rant away Leon....... We're about to get a mountain of meh.... Check out some of the 'nature' AI rubbish that's all over you tube.. Weirdly, the audience is split between.'Oooh, isn't that beautiful' and frustrated comments trying to explain the problem... Tools are good until we stop thinking....
Thankyou for imbibing my mid tier shite. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all!
Marry Christmas & Happy New Year!!🎄☃️🍾🥂
Top tier. Always top tier.
Merry Christmas Leon and family.all the best for the New Year🤘🤘🎼🎸🙂🎅
Merry Christmas my shred bro!
Merry Christmas Leon!
For people who have been avoiding clickbait titles and thumbnails for years like me appreciate you.
Appreciate it mate
I'm a software engineer of 25 years, and I totally agree with you on your opinion of this type of AI 'assistant'. I always look for original and genuine people and content. These tools will just make it even harder to find the type of content I enjoy. Thank you for discussing this topic.
Yesterday, I read on Slashdot that IA training is hitting a wall. Not enough data on the internet to train, too expensive to train. They are about to hire all of us to feed the machine with contents like slaves if they could. Not enough electricty. Good news. Proof that parooting is not reasoning and creating.
I've spent a lot of time in screenwriting groups so I know what most "authentic" people tend to write (pretty bad). I've also worked on some AI writing projects and have been pretty shocked out how interesting some of the short fiction it came up with was. I know that if it showed up in a writing room it would get positive reactions. Hollywood pumps out a lot mid-tier shite right now so I don't know this is any worse. To me, this technology will likely amplify the output of people with talent. They curate the ideas. Well, that's exactly how a Hollywood writing room operates now. A Show Runner curates the ideas from a group of writers. This evolution reminds me of when Photoshop came out. There was a lot of skepticism from traditional "artists". Now, everyone has PS in their tool kit.
@@-Thunder I hope you're right about machine learning favoring work that exemplifies talent. I also hope that AI can discern human curiosity and human problem solving as "high level" talent, because human curiosity and problem solving is what drives innovation.
The youtube studio stuff are all very helpful indeed, to make some good content, but the videos themselves are best when its just raw, in your studio room, personal, and like chatting over a cup of tea and a biscuit while you play the pedal / gear you are showing off. Keep it real. Your videos rock as they are. :-)
Thanks mate!
I think that this is a step in a bad direction.Creativity is something your should need to put in the work for not just click a button. Maybe there are small nuggets of ideas in there that a creative person could take and make much better, but in general Im not a fan. It's making it all too easy. This has the potential to remove all personality from creating videos . I've Been making videos for 13 years I don't need AI to help me make my Mid tier videos 😅
If you're mid tier I'm in the gutter :p
"Creativity is something your should need to put in the work for not just click a button"
EDM would probably like a word with you out in the alley. lol
"This has the potential to remove all personality from creating videos"
Same was said about DAWs and music.
Bright side: It also has the potential to make content creation easier. Which hopefully means less teary-eyed "I'm burned out on the YT creation grind" videos. : )
Come on boys. Don't sell yourselves short. You are both legends. I put you guys in the same category as Paul Davids. If you guys are mid-tier and below, 99.99% of the rest of us are straight trash. The nice thing is there is room for all of you and you each have your own vibe and feel.
Just don't let the AI turn all your videos the same. 😉
@@nickagervasi Paul Davids? LOL
We need a "made by people" label like the "Guaranteed Irish" emblem that is awarded on hitting the correct criteria. Then youtube can add a filter for that. That would kill ai shit overnight, as long as we could trust the label
Haha! Love "Guaranteed Irish" cheers!
I don't want that kind of content, there is already plenty of drivel.
I always thought that the “view” and “listens” is the worst invention of the internet. Are the songs with the most listens, the BEST songs???
Metrics of any kind, whether it's TH-cam, number of customer's served, or someone's "apparent" productivity at their corporate desk job, leaves out the one thing that matters the most - human relationships and their longevity. It's the emotional response that we have to things that makes us return for more. That's how relationships are forged.
We all know it's the songs with the most notes!
The Terminator movies in real life coming just around the corner.
Buy you're popcorn now while you can.
Probably not what you meant, but time travel is not around the corner 😅
Looking good in the G66 tech jacket Leon! This is one of your best videos ever.
This is a really interesting conversation. I'm currently undecided on whether or not I want to deploy AI for music creation. I'm using all kinds of of "AI assisted" plugins. As a professional recording, mixing and mastering engineer with three decades of work experience, I don't need to turn to AI assistance and could easily reject it, but I have found some new types of processing that it does that we can't do, and that is hugely beneficial, especially to a trained engineer who knows how to best implement it.
I think this ties into what you're saying about how AI assisted suggestions can push us to explore some new ideas that help us to grow outside of our comfort zone. I welcome self-development. I read a lot of books such as "The Zen Of Creativity" that push my way of seeing creative artistic work. I personally don't see the difference between getting inspiration from a book, or getting inspiration from AI, as long as the AI is geared towards me specifically and my personal applications.
I love this kind of content where you speak about new technology innovations. I admire your attitude on self-development. The feeling is mutual. I also love your honesty and fearless opinions! I'd love to hear what you have to say about CERN, the world's largest and most advanced particle physics laboratory and other highly productive "higher frequency" work that humans are doing, while most of the world is distracted by the onslaught of "lower frequency" (shite) media entertainment.
A personalised AI assistant that is able to learn your routines/habits and streamline them is very attractive. "I see you've doubled the guitars - do you want a plate or hall reverb with chorus or detune for extra width?" or "I see there's two camera angles and what looks like a guitar pedal in one - let me scale them into a single shot while you edit" would make it even faster to do what I do.
When I saw “so it begins” I thought it would be how to play Icefish’s song.😅 Long live mid-80s hard’n’heavy. Happy Holidays!👏🏻👋🏼🧿
You are talented, creative, informative, intelligent and entertaining. No need to do anything but what you bloody well want to! You and your channel are unique and that's why you will always stand out. Do what you want, your fans will love you for your integrity. Happy New Year Leon!
It really means a lot to hear that. Thanks for the kind words!
@@LeonTodd Anytime!
I'm glad you got there a beat before Henning, as, while I'm looking forward to his rant on this specific subject and no one person's reaction/work-rate is more valid or interesting, you're a super hard working dude and don't typically cover slop, all of these points are super concise and serve as a solid alarm bell summary for what the A.I. crestion function may come to serve as
I hate AI recommendations
This is a surprisingly refreshing take in a world where most people just say "AI bad!" and then end the discussion. My biggest concern with these kinds of tools is how they will aid the already rampant fully automated generated videos that viewers can no longer moderate with the like/dislike ratio indicator.
Great video, love you Leon! Cheers and Merry Christmas from Italy
Merry Christmas to you Leon.
I tend to give those types of videos a miss. Same with AI generated narration, often filled with mispronunciations. Calling them mid-tier is generous. I share all the concerns you raised here and I worry that we’ll arrive at a point where we stop trusting in almost everything TH-cam suggests, even down to the most innocuous of subjects.
For me AI underscores my appreciation of genuine and trusted channels like yours. You have an authenticity and “down-to-earthness” (and talent) that will never need all this computer generated bolleaux in order to be engaging and entertaining. God knows where it’s all heading but in the meantime thanks for keeping it real.
A very Happy Christmas and New Year to you and yours. All the best. ✌️❤️
Great video. Creativity, exploration and the beauty of bringing your unique personality and unpredictability is MIA. And that's a great point about your mental health & connecting to others.
Appreciate you mate, it's a real struggle to be human sometimes!
@@LeonTodd 😆
Brilliant vid mate. Youre like 150 steps ahead of legislators and media executives who aren’t aware of the wider ramifications of letting tech like AI into our lives and work.
Will AI change the face of "stank Face" during solos.....the machines need to leave us alone let us be us
I just realized that even if it’s unintentional this will literally destroy creativity and the drive for accomplishment with controlled art (to a degree). Just imagine generation with no aspiration to create or use their imagination. I mean music is also ideas in some cases so that’s like censorship in a way (destroying people’s exploration into sharing ideas through art).
Bingo. Not only that, have you noticed how many AI based plugins are coming out? Waves, izotope, and so on… I’m all for ease of use, but I’m not looking forward to whatever is going to come from this. Can you imagine? It 100% becomes people doing the work of the algorithm to feed itself what it wants to see more of… holy sh*t.
The last point you make is a really interesting one - most of this new tech is also acting as a way to move wealth from the poorest to the richest, so it creates both economic and information poverty.
While the human element is still very much present in TH-cam videos, I feel like as soon as this platform became a source of income for many, they had to conform to the algorhitm and that in itself had already stripped a lot of creators of their freedom and forced them to adopt the rigid structure of releases. It was always going to be a slippery slope. Sure, the production values had increased but the amount of videos that is required so you don't get buried under, inevitably results in mid tier content anyway because you will not always have ideas that are absolute fire. The term "content" is very apt. When I think "content", I think "a bunch of non descript shite, designed to fill a space" and most of it is exactly that. Just the sheer volume of it is actually off putting to me. With this new "AI" tech, it's simply gonna double down on what I mentioned and further contribute to TH-cam becoming a homogenous, "meh", platform, completely devoid of any creativity and individuality. It all started years ago and this is just another nail in the coffin...I dunno, excuse my ramblings
As a creator I already find that I've got more ideas than I ever get round to making videos of anyway
Yeah my list is ever expanding too. Kinda fun to look back at the ones that never seem to get made.
Im not feeling good about and with AI. Are we teaching it? Is it learning from us? Is it controlling us?
Great video! Definitely appreciate your perspective. I do think though, as MKBHD puts it “this is the worst this feature will ever be”. Definitely don’t need anymore mid-tier shite on youtube
It's great that the tools exist so that anyone can be "creative" with just the click of a button, the only issue that arises is what happens when everyone clicks a button and calls that creativity. It is worth thinking about and discussing, what and where is the art? I am off down the rabbithole
well, my friend I completely agree with you 100% unfortunately like you said we saw it coming and it’s gonna make it even easier for people to just pump stuff out that like you said is it really worth it? Darn that is either medium or low-grade content but overtime I’m sure people will catch on and know what to look for and not look for especially if they’re getting into doing their own channel content themselves on whatever it is, but there’s always plus and minuses to everything what you said was very well said, and I agree with you
Later on John Cordy's chanel: "Leon Todd has an opinion on TH-cam's AI. Does he have a point?"
It's only a matter of time. 🤣
Loved this video and agree. I believe the word you were looking for is "enshitification"
LOVE that
I could not agree more. It is a great dive into the dilemma that we all are starting to face today, not only on TH-cam: being more productive at the cost of loosing ourselves and becoming the 'slave' of AI and algorithms (or other stupid data driven 'value' metrics)... I hope that people will choose the right pill!
To quote Dr Ian Malcolm "Life, uh, finds a way"
Authenticity is on the ropes. It's going to be harder and harder to find and it's going to to happen faster than you can keep up with.
Speeding up the race to the bottom. I thought we already hit it but apparently, I was wrong.
can i get one of those jackets?
This scares me: are the machines now telling US what to do and not the other way around?
Well said, Ai is a weird reality to navigate for a creatives
If you never practice something you never get good at it and being that no one will feel inclined to keep up with a machine is like = ugh 😑
Hey Leon, Greetz from Germany!
Completely agree with you here, this is goin to reward the wrong type of content and seems to suppress real creativity.
I would use it as the 'ANTI-tool' and explore only those things that are marked with low interest LMAO
Rage against the algorythm!
Hahaha yes!
this is a GREAT idea
"Stripping out the soul..."
I think this could be a good tool to help launch video ideas. Hopefully it is taking from topics people are searching for. I guess it all depends on what you do with the analytics given to you.
It's very "meta" that AI generated suggestions, have, in of itself, generated an idea for content for a video 😂 ... love what you do mate👍
THIS!
A.I. is good for increasing content volume, but it's at the expense of content quality. It will be interesting to see if it evolves into something with a better balance. Until then, I hope you keep doing videos the way you have been.
You say DAH-TAH, we say DAY-TA
Why are we using AI for the fun creative stuff like music, art, video etc. why can't it be for like, writing emails to your real estate agent or mundane life admin tasks. We are going about AI all wrong.
Well said!
So what happens if AI looks at your content and says to itself, He's not listening to me?? will it have an effect on your views?? I guess we will find out. Merry Christmas Leon!!
So did it suggest that you make a video about another TH-cam video about another TH-cam video????
When everything gets automized, will we enjoy ourselves? Id rather have the robots do the hard and boring labour rather than creative. People will dumb, bored and have no dreams or hopes. This is truly stupid.
Isn't the internet fake enough to where we don't need plastic on plastic to taste good?
A.I. is going to take the homogenization of human creativity to a level where it actually no longer exists. This will be the death of art.
I guess we're not too far from the beautiful reality wherein a youtube algorithm measures the popularity of a video created using solely AI, based on the interaction of bot accounts. No human interaction required.
Oh ok, this was informative! Ok this is sort of cool, I didn't realise AI was used for bundling ideas together into a list, as long as it's not creating false content....and after round up all humans for processing and reprogramming.
I'm sure you could use something like ChatGPT to put together practice routines on guitar too!
AI can never come up with completely original ideas. "Most people don't, either!" they might argue. But the fact remains, without human originality, it cannot function.
Well, this might be good for some musicians but not all. I've got enough material to put down some 4 or 5 LP ...translated 50/ 55 songs already and new ideas translating soon into new ones so ....luckily enough my inspiration is not drying so soon ...yet 🙂.
not a fan of the ranking either. You do what is interesting to you, and I guarantee we will continue to be here for it
Idiocracy unfolding... opening the door to mediocrity uggggh
Enjoy your EXTRA BIG ASS FRIES!
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Yeh this is worrying on two levels. Firstly it could create a lot of content that lacks authenticity - which I like to think most viewers will be able to see through and it will eventually correct itself to some extent. Secondly might push content creators into areas that they aren't the most qualified to speak about, but feel the need to do it out of financial pressure. This is potentially dangerous for health and lifestyle channels where getting it wrong could have serious consequences. Not good!
The men In Black Meets Eddie Van Halen type of Crap ,nah we dont need any suggestions
Me wants the jacket 🤙
Maybe AI will mistakenly inspire TH-cam to send me a FM9 and a VP4 and my top ten dream guitars. If I think it maybe it will happen!
In a world where disinformation has become superior, one only hopes that creators make genuine choices in how they present their realities to the world to view. I do believe their should be disclaimers like sponsored videos. Something that denotes AI being present in the video or used in the creation of the video. That way the viewer is not led to believe without warning.
Agreed, transparency is essential
AI Shittification. Whatever you feed the AI with will be what the AI spits out.
This "Inspiration" is just a marketing tool, based on the metrics, illustrated in another form. I don't find it exactly mindblowing. If you work in an ad agency you operate based on metrics. Things that work get used again. There is nothing inherently creative about it. Using the "Inspiration" would be you do the same thing as others. You are completely right. The real creative people would put out their own thing regardless of metrics. It may not work, but if it does work, it really works.
I'd rather see some really creative stuff that likely fails but may be makes me laugh, gets me thinking or inspires me. All the algorithmic reflexes to make videos in a certain way lead to the silos you described. It's static.
I KNEW IT!😫 Some of the astounding playing Leon has been doing isn't human,,, cause he ain't!😳
Admit it! You are a Replicant.😑
Off switch and a d28 is my answer to computers
You are Top Tier Leon :) all that other. is sub par ..isn't mid Tier shite another name for upper decker lol.....great video...opens up the minds
The audience as a whole is smart. they will see through the 'veneer of legitimacy' and just stop following people churning content. I haven't posted a single video in December despite being the best time of year to just make anything, because I haven't felt any creativity to make something worth watching. I think so long as a creator respects their audience, people will see it and eventually you can build something - if you start playing games like this and just posting shite as you say, the opposite will happen. just my 2 cents.
Absolutely, transparency with your audience is paramount.
Sounds like we use these tools in the same way. I have found Chat GPT is amazing for research, brainstorming title ideas and fine tuning the videos that are more scripted.
These tools also get lot of stuff completely wrong especially about guitar gear. I tried writing reviews about guitar I demoed using AI and and they can output are generic Guitar World style articles with no real substance, just hype.
The video ideas YT provides could actually be really useful, especially if they are tailored to our channels!
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of articles on Guitar World, Music Radar and similar sites are generated this way.
@ yep it sure seems like that’s the case.
Also: merry Christmas to the land down under!
I’m not a fan of all of this AI nonsense and I’m struggling to see the net positive for creators. I agree with several of your points, those AI suggestions will just accelerate the race to the bottom and result in more videos that are just a rehash of other videos. To a degree, YT is already on this path, whenever I watch a video, it shows me more videos of the same type that I just watched. I rarely watch the same video twice, let alone five videos on the same subject. That is quite frustrating and in combination with the relentless advertising, I’m feeling less inclined to watch more videos. So far I’m not convinced AI has much to offer creative people and original ideas.
Excelent marketing decision for crowd who believe thers a sound of wood in electric guitar and pays milions just because theres brand sticker on the headstock
Yeah man, can’t help but think this kinda thing is going to make people create the same sorta things - which will be lame and as un-creative as possible. I use AI stuff on occasion but will stay clear of this sorta thing I think
I am also getting A I generated rock videos in suggestion
AI depends on aggregate data to create monolithic cultures. Big brother is feeding people to look and think the same way, like the same thing to profit from it, while cannibalizing creativity.
It'd be funny to pick only the low interest ideas and see how they stick :D
I like this idea!
This will just lead to more and more channels that are just put up by people trying to create revenue streams. They have no interest in the subject matter or the content. Eventually have software that’ll interact with this for them so they don’t even have to waste time creating channels.
*PunkRockMBA has entered the chat*
@ 😂
Those thumbnails would be a dead giveaway lol they look so AI.
Agree that the initial overview actually looks decent. It could be a useful too. but before I even hear any more of the video, the problem is it could be a good tool for someone like you who may take the ideas and develope them in your style and probably the video would fit seemlessly into the rest of your content but you know, you just know, some idiots with no history in this subject will start pumping out these videos with literally no input or adaption, just take what youtube gives them, use another AI tool to generate the footage and upload. And TH-cam will bloody promote that sh1t too! This already happens a lot. I looked up studio monitors the other day and the same will happen anytime you look at "best x in 2024" etc. you get videos with AI voice reading add campaigns and providing affiliate links". this one was rating the monitors on sound quality etc and saying things like "It has a reputation", "people say..." so just making up bs ratings for the sake of posting a vid with affiliate links.
EDIT: A video on isotop ozone would be cool! I have recorded some tracks in the past and mixed them but never "mastered" a track/s. would be great to do a video on that mastering and mixing stage for home studio or hobbyists
yeah not a fan of ChatGPT for creative assistance. its magic for practical "how to's".. an instruction manual. but the best youtube content is someone's passion and as you say.... "low interest"... because the whole idea is to find something that's CURRENTLY low interest and make it exciting. I agree on all points except for the "misinformation" tangent. I think every opinion & type of content should be allowed on youtube. let the crazies reveal themselves. - cheers mate. merry Chrissy to you & fam
Cheers mate, Merry Christmas!
Bad AI generated imagery means we'll finally move on beyond the clickbait, exaggerated, shocked face thumbnail.
What we need are multiple video publishing platforms competing with TH-cam so innovation occurs not only in content creation but in creating better algorithms and thus better content publishing and monetization conditions.
Pending litigation in the U.S. to break up Alphabet, or at least Google, and hopefully TH-cam, may improve that process, although I hope it occurs in a way that is not overly disruptive to content creators' revenue streams.
That said, I'm surprised so many people, both as content creators and consumers, have been more or less satisfied with a single content publication platform for 20 years now.
A single platform simplifies content creation to an extent, but it also means you play by TH-cam's rules or no rules at all, effectively making it "OurTube" or "TheirTube" or "BigTechTube." With a lack of CRT monitors, there isn't even a "tube" in it, anymore.
We can say there's "competition," yes, but we all know token placeholders like DailyMotion aren't going anywhere.
And a final downside to all this AI assisted stuff is, as the content creation process speeds up due to AI, the more content creation will need to be automated by AI for content creation to remain productive, competitive, and profitable.
With AI as a content multiplier, my guess is the amount of profit per minute of video produced will go down--just as an assembly line allows you to churn out more widgets but each widget is worth less, which is made up by selling more widgets.
More content means more average stuff, which means more fragmentation, which means more of the siloing mentioned, which means on a platform with billions of contributors, only a few are going to get on top.
But will they get there because their content is actually good, or because their content feeds the algorithm? Because although it may seem behavior > algorithm, once the algorithm is entrenched and working, it's actually the other way around.
A solution to this may be content creators banding together to create their own streaming services that, via a paywall, in a sense curates the quality of their content. But I think Patreon already does this to some extent.
So as usual, starvation in the land of plenty. Chicken or egg. Cart or horse. Ouroboros.
What made me subscribe to this channel and its excellent creator are the human aspects TH-cam and its AI tools are not good at measuring or creating.
There were no ridiculous thumbnails. There was no clickbait. Just someone who really knew what he was doing and cared about his audience.
I just randomly searched for someone who was knowledgeable about 90s style rack tube preamps I grew up on like the Triaxis and JMP-1. I stumbled upon a gold mine of information, an incredible player, and a great guy.
I worry the AI aspects will take away that human touch.
About the only curious thing I've ever found on the channel: why was Leon wearing some variation of all purple in "Which Power Amp? Tubes vs SS for Modellers?"
Maybe he was AI generated imagery 6 years ago and we are now dealing with an even more human version all these years later.
And technically Ratt was never underground. They were "Out of the Cellar." A non-AI Leon will see what I did there. ;)
Thanks for taking the time to really "Lay It Down" here.
Great, great point regarding the status of YT as the de-facto "only place in town" to publish video content. I've been loosely following some of the anti-trust murmurings with big tech over the last decade and wondering if or when the threshold will be crossed to break up the tech titans.
Anything that provides a spur of inspiration leading to a creative product has worth, obviously. I too use Ozone and love it-- as a starting point, and that's the key, I think. Nothing wrong with using AI as a tool for idea generation, any more than using the riff from a well-known song as inspiration. But the cynical and skeptical side of me won't underestimate the power of human laziness. Let AI do it all. I fear the onslaught of mediocrity. Hope I'm just totally wrong.
Did you know that Amazon has banned authors from publishing more than three books daily? It seems the bar could have been set a tad lower 😅
Hahaha a lazy 1k books a year :p
IMO, use whatever tools that are available to you to improve your productivity and reduce your workload. Like guitar gear, AI is just a tool. When content creators start abusing it, the viewers will notice. Especially when they see six fingers or the word “elevate” in the title. 😂
There’s actually a channel that upload metal tracks so frequently and whats crazy is most people don’t realize it’s all ai generated.
Which one? I need to know
It caters for lazy people !!! Anything that makes life easy costs jobs and dumbs us down !!!
i agree the most interesting suggestion is the 90s movie score with "low interest" rating. it seems to me it is rated that way because there are very few videos, and therefore very little data, to support it. where the "high interest" videos as noted have been done to death, so the data says "a lot fo people watch this, you should make one too". i dont see anything useful here. your own ideas and personality following your curiosity will lead you to great videos. who thinks Jim Lill's videos could have been done with AI suggestions?? anyone? companies have invested a lot of money in this AI stock and are trying to find a problem to solve with it. my opinion remains: its next to useless
We need more Jim's
You can’t spell banality without AI.
Trisha Code is the only worthwhile AI content on TH-cam.
There's time and place for AI IMO, but this ain't it. As a former Googler, I can say this was created by someone at Google for the sole purpose of having "shipped" something, which is a prerequisite for getting a promotion. Whether it's any good or whether the users like it is completely immaterial in that scenario. It's basically a three step process: 1. Ship the thing, 2. Get the promo, 3. Move to some other team outside the blast radius of your "misfeature".
VERY interesting. What's the usual timeline of a feature being nixed once that blast goes off?
@@LeonTodd depends on the organizational acumen of the director in that chain of command, how much they like the feature, and the degree of damage from the blast. If they do like the feature, and initial blast is not too bad, someone could eke out a promo by "improving" the feature (and then moving out of the blast radius of their improvement, obviously). Or if it's a product, _all_ people could leave the team, and then it rarely survives for more than a year. It's a cursed system. But that's similar across the entire tech industry, especially Big Tech. The best way to get promoted is by shipping stuff, and managers usually can't tell a decent feature from a hole in the ground. The best way to switch teams (or companies) is right after a promotion - you aren't getting promoted again for a while in the old place no matter what you do. This set of perverse incentives generates a tremendous amount of disarray and suckage, but nobody wants to fix it because that's how everyone climbs up the ladder.
The major problem with AI is that it will use everyone's ideas that exists out there and make a mish mash of it all... What will eventually end up happening is that it will start to present the same things to different people.....and if people always take the suggestion what AI is providing cause humans are lazy.... then no new ideas will happen....and then AI will just keep suggesting the same things over and over because AI will not get any new "data" from humans. I am also pretty sure AI is not at the point where it will say oh, I suggested this one thing 2 million times already and should I stop suggesting it now cause I am not able to come up with anything new....nah, just show the same mish mash of what already exists out there AGAIN! This will be the vicious circle of AI and lazy humans who will slowly stop thinking of new things !! LOL ........In my opinion, AI will amazing in a controlled environment where you inject data and see the results and if positive, move forward otherwise remove the newly injected data to keep the AI clean of bad data so it can continue to make the right decisions in the controlled environment. but on the web.....AI will be filled with garbage data as there is lots of garbage out there.... and hence humans will start to use that garbage to be creative!!! lol cheers !
If one starts by deep thinking what AI is shorthand for, Artificial Intelligence, its purpose can be better understood. To wit: a person that is already blessed with above average intelligence doesn't need, nor will they benefit very much from, such a thing; but a person who is not very intelligent can use it to seem more intelligent than what they actually are, artificially. Perhaps the upside to this specific use of AI (TH-cam) is that people who have valuable content to share but lack the intelligence to present it in an organized and/or entertaining way, will be able to better share their content. On the downside, the example that worries me the most is that short and to the point how-to videos, that let me get right back to whatever I was doing, will be replaced by ten- or fifteen-minute videos wherein the valuable content is buried in fluff. Using AI technology to make someone seem more intelligent than they really are, is patently deceitful in other, more salient, contexts like curriculum vitae and college dissertations where judging a person's actual intelligence and/or capabilities is important. So, since you are proven to be capable of making excellent content without AI, you could perhaps use the TH-cam version to spark your imagination in "dry spells" and other such ways but I, for one, don't think you will otherwise benefit much from it; at least in its current iteration. Happy Holy Days to you too!
Well said, and thankyou for the support! Have a great holiday season
Ahh..."mid-tier shite"...the best generative AI can hope for.
Personally I think we’re overestimating the impact AI’s going to have. With some exceptions, people will seek out truly creative individuals and see through AI-produced content. We’re already seeing this happen. A great creative, with great perspectives and personality will always be sought out and valued. I hope I’m not wrong.
Right there with you!
@ Have a great Christmas and New Year, Leon.
I agree that most people seek out real creativity. But the question is, as AI progresses, will we be able to tell the difference?
@@CJ_Wolesz Yeh you’re absolutely right. It’s certainly going to be interesting. For me, it’s going to encourage me to experience more live settings for myself. I’m not anti-AI at all and I use ChatGPT daily in my work to help me be more productive or overcome specific challenges. But I can see many people becoming instantly nauseated by AI (and its impending overuse) and therefore driving growth of the ‘experience’ customer; people who want something real whether that’s live music, bungee jumping, sea fishing... The stuff where seeing is believing.
I think if someone needs these full cliché generic ideas, because they don't have anything better than this, they shouldn't have a youtube channel :)
i feel like AI is unfortunately kinda just destined to result in mediocrity a lot of the time. it could maybe be used as a tool to aid creatives but honestly is probably only best for doing menial tasks.
The feature inspired me to quit YT.
AI is just slop by definition. I only ever use it for placeholder content. It will get people a percentage of the way there, but other than that...
Uggh. Another human creation gone bad and misused. First lets homogenize human creativity……but worse…..let’s ask ourselves “why in the world would YT provide content creators with such a tool…..WITH analytics on projected “interest”?” Because…..YT wants to create more revenue generating content creators for their own profit driven benefit!
d o o m e d
After watching your video it is obvious this is designed to generate middle of the road content to engage the randos and generate indiscriminate traffic. It’s not to inspire the creator, it’s to churn more pink slime.
What about: Five ways to unclog your YT channel from the mid tier shite 😄
Then let the thumbnail generator do the magic!
Joking… I’m with you Leon and totally agree on everything you said! Keep up the great content and have a fantastic Christmas :)
Automatically click "Don't recommend channel" if it feels like it's "a.i" made.
I've seen and heard quite a few AI generated 'albums' on TH-cam, They can be impressive, but they aren't quite right, I can usually tell within a few seconds if it's AI. I dislike it. While I'm at it, I am so tired of all the AI generated fake trailers for movies on TH-cam these days too.
It's also lacking context - my favourite songs aren't just a collection of cool sounds, they're interwoven with the life experiences and motivations of the artist.
@@LeonTodd Indeed. There's no soul in the AI generated stuff.
Very good points raised here, but try not to call what you produce as that horrible generic term ' content ' , thats a huge part of the problem, you're not producing bland time filler, far from it.
Yeah part of me dies every time I use the that term
Yeah, it's a dumb thing! ha
Rant away Leon.......
We're about to get a mountain of meh....
Check out some of the 'nature' AI rubbish that's all over you tube..
Weirdly, the audience is split between.'Oooh, isn't that beautiful' and frustrated comments trying to explain the problem...
Tools are good until we stop thinking....