The Cyberpunk genre was literally about this. "Some bad actor is gunna kill the fun of technology by generating trash to scam people out of money, to corporatize the creative space and turn life into a dead mall."
why are you subscribed to Jessie Gender and Philosophy Tube? those are 2 dudes... Dressed up and pretending to be women, that's creepy AF would you trust a man who's insane enough to crossdress? idk about you but me personally, philosophy tube and his videos are weird
it's been one scam to the next from crypto to NFTs now they're latching onto AI as their next method of making "easy money with no effort" while taking that last part of "no effort" to its logical extreme by just stealing content from other people
The lack of AI regulations is really depressing, TH-cam actively rewards content farms and it’s so hard to find a genuine good watch I’m grateful that you haven’t done that!
The content farm, funnily enough, reminds me of an old book. Reaper Man. Basically death gets fired for being too human, and ends up working on a a farm in the middle of nowhere. He sees a blacksmith making the first automated harvesting machine and gets very upset because he knows it's going to be the end of a way of life that kills the soul before the body dies. Just machines, no care or work ethic behind them, and millions out of a job for it. This AI flood reminds me of that, only we can't just go out and stick a wrench into the gears and ask god for a second chance. But maybe we can hold on a while longer, show the wheat the care of human hands, err, _minds_ of loving sowers and reapers. But we'd be crazy to deny we will be in the minority, at least for a while.
I feel like humans became ultimately too lazy to the point they hope AI starts doing stuff for them but gladly AI sometimes makes mistakes and it often can't recognize things or memes.
there is a fundamental difference between something made out of joy and passion and something made out of necessity like food but anyways terry pratchett is an excellent writer
This genuinely made me feel really empty inside as soon as you mentioned the vision of the future that some people may have where everything is extremely polished but it's just A.I.
this reminds me of a video i saw on how to reupload people's videos and everyone in the comments were on board with content theft. when some people called him out for it, he said they were just on a moral high horse. he also bullied small creators who disagreed with him.
And that's exactly it! AI does not have a 'self'. It can't gush about how much it enjoyed TV show X or game Y. It can't feel and express those actual feelings through art. What I find most interesting in art is not even just the artwork on its own, but the thoughts, feelings, and ideas behind it. When you add that in, it elevates something from a simple drawing, painting, animation (etc.) to something else; something more
@@klefromyoutube9953It still won't be its own opinions. The AI would probably collect the most popular opinions from the internet, process them then generate a response accurate to that.
I’m unable to imagine how people can only see TH-cam as a means to make money. When I joined TH-cam it was because I love making art and I love animating, and I wanted to share it with the world. Money was not part of it. It seemed almost magical too, being able to post things I made where lots of people can see it. It’s still magical for me today. So these ai content farm people, from my perspective, seem to be disrespecting TH-cam itself. It’s an affront to creativity.
THANK YOU!!!! You described how I feel exactly! Everything about this content farm garbage and AI bullshit is an insult and disgrace to the very face of artistry and creativity! Money and AI are going to be the downfall of us all!
@@thardump859 everytime I see one of those goddamn "how to start a faceless youtube channel in 12 minutes and make abolute BANK!" videos my heart doesn't shrink three sizes, it shrinks four.
@hexyellow9873 they have done that, there was a website that wasn't about the advertising money and was just a place to share, I think it was called youtube or something
These people see EVERYTHING as only a means to make money. Money is the end goal. And to them, the end justifies all means. Capitalism rots the brain. Resist it with humanity.
Fuck bro this shit hit hard, I used to make trash videos like this with Chatgbt writing my script and Ai doing the voices. It’s just removes all the creativity out of your own video
@@1marcelfilmsno frrr I'll hit that button on so many things and then find, maybe a month or so later they come back again in my feed. It's all a lie to make us feel like we have power
as someone who used to really enjoy animation memes back in the day (I know it's cringey), I would really love to see a rise for authenticity over quality again. there's so many nowadays that just focus on being as pretty/smooth/eye-catching as possible and not simply just animators having fun like it used to be
I'm hoping that a perfectly tailored AI feed would just inevitably get boring, but seeing the current iPad kids situation, I'm terrified of what a certain type of parent would do, given the opportunity to hand their kid an endless feed of AI crap
This is exactly what I was thinking lol, except I'm sure that if a content farm were to copy this video they'd find some way to twist the conclusion to be in favor of AI. It would still be incredibly ironic though
Nailed it. I've said to people for a while now that monetisation ruined the internet. I remember watching Let's Plays of people playing games around 2010 and they were just doing it for the love of doing it. Videos had a decent chance of being entertaining, or at the very least done in a unique style. Nowadays, people make videos with the sole intent of making money from them. At the end of the day, why would you put the time and effort into uploading a video on TH-cam if you aren't sure of its financial viability? Much safer to make the same sorts of videos as everyone else who is raking money in, rather than chance your own format. How many times have you seen a video only to be greeted with "Hey there guys! Don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe so you don't miss a video!" Ugh... the cringe... How about a video with a clickbait-ey title? They don't just say that to be trendy, they say it because it's a fairly guaranteed way of upping their rankings of the algorithm and making their videos more prominent. As you said, I think this was when people making unique stuff online started to drop off when they realised they just couldn't compete with what are basically money-making shitposts.
people are too negative nowadays. theres so much negativity in fact there is barely any optimism. either way its all meaningless. what do you mean im being nihilistic?
The ending of this video has filled me with Determination. I am so relieved I am not hopeless in creating genuine Content to help or educate others. Long time fan and just wanted to say Thank You. I think I have what I need to create more and get better at it now.
DETERMINATION? LIKE THE HIT GAME UNDERTALE??? NOW WAE!!! SANS UNDERTAEL MEGOLOVANIA!!!! CHARA IS EVIL! THEY CONTROLLED FRISK!!!!1!1!1!1 I'M TELLING YOU BRUH THIS SHIT IS AWESOME /j
I've noticed that i've been hitting the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" buttons much more frequently because of all of the AI slop that's been flooding my recommendations.
It’s getting really annoying seeing the exact same channel over and over because they stagnate, and then they make a NEW channel which gets shoved into my recommendations. Awful.
This reminds me of something my old comics teacher told me. He said that art should first and foremost be made for ourselves, next for the people who care about it. He told me that TV companies call the shows we watch on TV _filler_ for the commercials- the ad space, which is the actual product they're selling.
Glad to see your upload Chess example you mentioned is something I have also talked about a lot, as computers were just a stepping stone for humans to get better at chess I think so will happen with ai too (not necessarily with chess but something else) only real problem I have ai is if companies use it as cheap labor to provide sub-par product and also stealing art from artists, who are already struggling most of the time
I'm a musician and have been focusing on that entirely, trying to jumpstart a career, and I've stayed away from TH-cam and content creation in fear of being seen as a 'TH-cam Rapper', but at this point I'm thinking I need to start making content again just to fight this AI garbage. It scares me. The normalization of this horseshit freaks me the FUCK out and I think it's my responsibility to try to do my part to combat it even a tiny bit with real content.
"almost everyone has a feed uniquely tailored to them" That's not how TH-cam's algorithm works though. If you look at the subscription patterns of random commenters, or compare the videos you get recommended with your friends, you'll see that the way the algorithm works is that people get grouped together into broad categories and shown the same videos within a category.
@@AetherNoble Right, in a few years TH-cam's algorithm will suddenly become 100x more sophisticated than any social media algorithm to ever exist. Guess we'll see.
I also believe that long format videos are taking off somehow, of course it involves someone who is a natural or trained entertainer, but it is becoming more appealing. This video gives me hope as I also hope to be able to form a niche around literary art topics but been feeling discouraged as content automation and people doing souless stuff are virtually everywhere. At the end of the day, AI is not gonna rob us, but people will be forced to actually come up with quality content blending human effort and AI to excel over other AI youtuber as their content is not only boring but extremely repetitive at this point and it's been little more than a year since the AI boom.
Most long format videos are incredibly lazy aside from length, a lot of them fall in the trap of describing the entire piece of media they are reviewing with very few actual review or analysis bits through out, that is not good content.
@@CoracaoAcidental98 I think that is way too common in anime/videogames reviews. They tend to give any kind of info or background as irrelevant as it may be. However, most videos out there (no matter the length) are lazy, they may have good edits or something but they are just average at best. When you consume media, it is up to you what kind of quality you want to consume, curating what you watch.
As an aspiring content creator and journalism student, i've been thinking about the future of AI and creation for years, and that last part about parasocial relationships is the exact conclusion I came to. I make the comparison to vinyl records and film photography, digital is 100 times more "practical" and mass produced, but there will always be a demand for authenticity and tangibility. You know how it was a big deal that the movie Oppenheimer didn't use any CGI, when studios used to brag about how much CGI they used? I can see the exact thing happening with AI To expand, I think the loneliness epidemic will aid with authentic creation (as dystopian as that sounds). Podcasts and live streaming exploded during the pandemic because people wanted to feel some sort of human connection, and even though those 2 areas haven't seen the same numbers, it's undeniable that people feel lonelier than ever, especially younger people. I can only imagine the demand of parasocial relationships going up in the future
I swear, the internet is slowly becoming less and less of a tolerable place to be on. It used to be a chaotic mess that was fun to be on, then corporate took over and killed the fun now it's like beating a dead horse by everyone and their grandmother using Ai to get lazy on creativity and/or to scam folks. I'm an artist so.. I actively use art sites and when Ai """""art""""" started being a thing, it started flooding nearly every art site I use, making them practically unusable. People like this are legitimately killing the creative space and it's downright infuriating.
I have found random channels (possibly made by AI) that answer to a random question in their video. Their profile pictures are faces which look kinda distorted. Also they upload many videos in a day. (Like once every 20-30 minutes or so) Edit: Their names are usually like "Q&A! w/ (insert name here)" Their videos feel bland with a text to speech voice.
I don’t like watching short videos. They all have an unnecessary narrator with giant captions taking up the whole screen and you can’t escape these types of videos because they’ve taken over. Sucks what the internet has turned into.
I think even if the future as described in the video will become true, there will still be appreciation for man-made videos. Like in this age of automatization, there are still those who value and are ready to pay for something completely man-made, or how people value movies with practical effects more than CGI spectacles.
This is so depressing... but... what if everyone made bot channels to subsidize their hobbies so that they can make whatever they want without worrying about the algorithm or adsense since their bot channels got that already covered?
i think something important is also that some people use ai for videos bc they hate their voice/face so if we actually help people with mental health, it might cause a big spike in people actually showing their true selves on yt
People using AI for meme videos is honestly the most depressing use of AI in something that's supposed to be creative. YTP makers didn't laborously spend hours in editing software splicing dialogue from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Hotel Mario in 2008 so you could use AI to make unfunny Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro meme edits. It lacks style and a love for the shitposting craft, and it'll age worse than milk left out in the summer heat for a week once the AI bubble finally bursts.
8:10. Common misconception about Tom. He is *not* retired. He ended the weekly videos. He still is making content, such as his podcast "Lateral" and his weekly newsletter.
I can’t say that anything I’ve uploaded to this site was insightful or deep, but at least I was the one to make it. It came from me having fun, without the need of an algorithm or ai. Thank you for making me want to push myself to make more creative projects.
Fun fact: at 9:33 you can see a video editing software with many videos loaded. One of those videos shows a brown shirt with an emblem. That emblem belongs to the "Pathfinders Club", a scouting club for 10-15 year olds themed around a specific religion called 7th Day Adventism. I know all of that because I used to be a member of it. To be more specific, I was in the Club de Conquistadores, which is the Spanish-speaking version of the same thing.
And it’s all being dragged down by low retention rates, toxic internet culture, corporatism, and basically anything that exploits viewers and the algorithm. Oh and the algorithm itself
I despise the word "content" and how its used but now that i think about it the word perfectly describes what this content AI slop is. Its not art, its just content. "Content" the stuff that fills a video with no artistic merit, meaning, purpose or passion. Humans care about stories and art only because humans made it thats why AI is trying to hide its not human because knowing it makes it clear that whatever AI generates has no value. This AI slop is like trash TV, fast food and maybe even drugs. Its fast, easy and there is a lot of it but it will never completely replace the originals. What we need to do as a collective is to de-mystify AI because people do not care of things that anybody can make the only reason why this AI slop exists is because its new and not a lot of people understand it yet.
Great video, was recently writing an essay about artificial intelligence and this video really shined a light about AI and how it can be used for horrible purposes.
"Humanity's desparate search for perfection will only lead to the brutal realization that imperfection is what it truly desires." - Some random comment I saw on the internet
I felt the need to comment something. I know that I used to actually watch TTS and stock footage videos. But they always felt so shallow and at the end they didnt contain anything worth remembering. Having said this Im sure that Ill remember this video
13:53 I think that genuinely is the main difference. I do like AI as a tool, but the thing is its just a computer. All it can do is crunch numbers, its a fancy version of auto complete, you give it some guidelines and it basically fills in the rest with weighted averages.
Oh dear, they're even selling shovels. Not sure how sustainable this business model is. All I can say is that when grifters sell shovels and courses instead of performing the scheme itself, chances are that the niche money making opportunity is very saturated.
I had also come across an AI-generated video suspiciously similar to yours, though I suspect that it's different due to not remembering that bizarre thumbnail. I didn't have the foresight to keep the URL safe either, but when I found it it had a pretty low view count, and I highly doubt it's gotten higher since due to it's low quality, if it even exists at all. So sorry that this happened to you, I've only seen stuff like this more and more, while AIs are only really effective at "copying" certain types of content, what they are effective at copying- video essays-, unfortunately, take a significant amount of time to produce and thus being effectively stolen from is simply devastating.
I myself started doing top 10s. My character, Commissioner LawWonder along with Sergeant Stensland tend to do these topics. But with text, no speech. And since I never use Chat GPT or Open AI to write the script, I tend to write my own stuff.
I wasn't sure what this was all about since I didn't think I'd come across any of these videos. But now I remember, I have noticed a few videos with poor text to speech and there seem to be quite a lot of them on TH-cam. Now it makes so much more sense why there are so many of them.
Gaming is one of the easiest for a 'faceless channel'. All you need is gameplay, good editing and scripting. Not surprised if people use A.I. to do all of that.
It's genuinely depressing to see what the "AI Revolution" has done to the world in just a year, creativity is basically dying as people like this are just churning out content with ZERO effort and making tons of money mostly by stealing other people's creative work. I really hope this is somehow put to an end before things just get even worse, I used to imagine that eventually AI or something might begin to replace people's jobs but not this quickly, it's actually insane how fast it started.
People will still look for communities and shared experiences in future because that's the human nature, so I would fathom that there will always be demand for content not specifically tailored to just themselves. The easy way to end the video on an optimistic note :D
I think a thing people often forget with the current state of ai is the format of the media it takes currently. Most of the way we see/interact with ai is thru image and text. Text is especially interesting format as an author can convey emotion without necessarily feeling them. That makes it possible for a nonfeeling author(like Chatgpt) to write a fairly moving piece of text. We see a similar thing with images... and while videos are technically a series of images, the images have to work together extremely well to produce a bigger picture and often ai is not capable of the emotion required to develop a story thru movement and suspense in metaphor... I have high hopes ai will be more or less confined to its niches and a new video creation platform is necessary that you tie a real life identity to, i.e. one account per person.
I have no clue how your last video didn't do well. Feels like your channel is in a weird spot for the algorithm. I'm sure you'll have another explosion soon! Keep up the great work!
Ive even seen some comments on my videos and on many other upcoming small creators videos on how people are happy that theyve found something just, fun and genuine that pendulum is swinging and its swinging fast
I think it's about due time we start the war on people who exploit AI. Dislikes, spurning the abuse of AI, etc. They were right about one thing: why ARE we just sitting around while these people are making thousands and even millions exploiting cheap and low-effort methods of content creation, thus letting truly passionate content creators sink underneath the pile of sludge they make?
Ugh. I've seen such videos get recommended to me on my TH-cam homepage from time to time, but would just dislike the video, remove it from my watch history, and select ‘Don't recommend channel’ in the menu next to the video on the homepage, as I'd brush them aside. I didn't think about cataloguing examples of those as I'm working on other projects at the same time, however as part of one of those projects, I took note of a TH-cam user named 'DJ Ware' / 'CyberGizmo' who, prior to November 2023, used AI generated thumbnails. I'm glad he stopped using AI, though, as an aspiring artist who wants to develop his own art style partially because he can't afford to hire certain artists to design for him (who also happen to be professional artists who do so as a career, not indie artists who do so as a hobby like a number of video game TH-camrs seem to hire for their thumbnails and/or branding). (3:47) At that point, you reminded me of a Twitter post thread from someone who made an entire picture book using AI tools and sold it on Amazon as a self-published book. I can tell he wasn't a real bookworm because he referred to the book as a ‘children's book’ instead of the specific term ‘children's picture book’ or, what I would use, ‘picture book’. The thread caught the attention of real authors and illustrators who work on books aimed at children, who then not only reposted bits of the thread to their followers (including me), but also criticised him for not understanding the amount of creativity and work that goes into fiction books. (3:54) That reminded me of AI tutorial videos on TH-cam and the comments on those. (6:01) I agree. Not only are creative people not getting paid, but as far as I know, the AI art bots in particular, or at least DALL-E, seem to have been made with the intention of providing reference images to real artists and illustrators, but instead mostly get abused by people who likely are greedy and don't understand the value of creativity.
Robots and tech are good but I swear people use them in wrong ways and one of the wrong ways is to literally have it run your channel for you or other stuff.
This kind of stuff makes me depressed, but enough non-creator friends I've talked to literally don't care at all about this that I think it might just be the way things go. This is just not the kind of world for art that I want to have happen.
Personally I don’t think actual creators will completely disappear, people like watching and feeling connected with other people, both the creator and by bonding over art with others. I suspect platforms like Nebula will grow, so while there’ll still be masses of AI sludge people will create enclaves of more curated work, either as separate platforms or on existing ones
A huge key here is indeed whoever is clicking on the sludge. I'm surprised this didn't cover bot accounts whose purpose is to click and interact. That would be a full circle of sewage garbage.
Im worried that this type of content will eroded information that nobody will have an understanding of anything anymore. For example say you want to learn art, some tutor say to learn perspective first, ok you say to yourself. You try to find a video here to learn that. You watched some video but its not make sense because its an ai trying to explain a concept they don't understand.
once real ai hits we will be done all work will be done by people who own robots that they rent to people who need to get work done and they will just scrape all ai shit from the past when there was real humans around humanity sinks into a deep slumber
Art feels so freeking dead nowadays because of ai when i was a bit younger i was exited for advanced technology to remove the need of work then we humans can do the more fun and human thing of art but no to optimistic i guess (also yt videos are a type of art imo)
The scary thing is we are moving towards a monpoly where big companies literally own all these youtube channels. Rich are getting richer and the depressed are getting more depressed.
I think people watch garbage videos only because of autoplay. And also when searching for something and there is none of normal videos on this subject.
I have an idea! I don't know how good that idea is, but it would be interesting to delve into: What if we had a filter by monetization? That way, we can actively choose the ones who either earn a lot, just "making a living", earning a little bit for sides, or nothing at all, and it could help us appreciate the ones who have hardly any profit-based motivation to make their content.
At the risk of having everyone dog pile on me, I've been in financial situations, hell I'm in a financial situation that would definitely warrant doing something repulsive like this. I feel like unless you're a person that's had a family with an eviction notice or a loved one with treatment they desperately need, it's not really fair to judge people based on how they make money. Plagiarism, like what happened here, that's not okay. I honestly hate AI videos in general and I wish youtube would restrict them. There's so much false information that comes out of them. Understand that I, also as a creative person, do not like these videos. But I'm also a person who has friends who have had to sell themselves, I've personally experienced what it's like to live on the streets as a child, and if it came down to it I would do damn near whatever I had to do to make sure that doesn't happen to my children. Compared to others I've known, making a soulless video is a lot more appealing than selling my body or any other number of things. The state of the world these days... well, we all know it. I'm just putting in my two cents, my very human, my very compassionate, two cents. Edit: I wanted to say that I do like your videos, I really value the differences we as humans can have in perspective. That's why I added mine. I hope people take it the right way.
Remember when the most advanced ai chat bots were cleverbot or eviebot? I used to love to play around with those chat bots bc they would give such nonsensical responses. Simpler times
AI was a gift to content farmers, creatively bankrupt idea guys and grifters around the world. I am very glad to see at least some people denouncing it and wishing for a return from less "content"-oriented algorithm pleasing trash, towards more genuine videos.
Quality video. Future can be scary sometimes, I hope SORA won't be good as openai shows it, if it's will be the case AI video will be more and more common.... The the tech progress says it will happen one day in all cases...
One thing I fear about AI video, is that it will make video surveillance evidence useless. Any corrupt prosecutor can fabricate surveillance video of innocent people just to get convictions, and any defense attorney can claim any video was AI generated. These AI programs need a mandatory paper trail of all content they create, so it's possible to know for sure whether anything was AI generated or not.
The Cyberpunk genre was literally about this. "Some bad actor is gunna kill the fun of technology by generating trash to scam people out of money, to corporatize the creative space and turn life into a dead mall."
why are you subscribed to a monkey that's named La'Ron Readus?
Foreign Man in a Foreign Land?
bro he's such a weird socialist monkey, you seriously like garbage channels like him? that's depressing
why are you subscribed to Jessie Gender and Philosophy Tube?
those are 2 dudes... Dressed up and pretending to be women, that's creepy AF
would you trust a man who's insane enough to crossdress? idk about you but me personally, philosophy tube and his videos are weird
awoo
@@1marcelfilms Awroo!
This tech bro grindset is so depressing
yep, and this is coming from a factorio player
The future is a boring dystopia
@@yeetrepublic9142 truer words have never been written
it's been one scam to the next from crypto to NFTs now they're latching onto AI as their next method of making "easy money with no effort" while taking that last part of "no effort" to its logical extreme by just stealing content from other people
Destroy the machines!
The lack of AI regulations is really depressing, TH-cam actively rewards content farms and it’s so hard to find a genuine good watch I’m grateful that you haven’t done that!
As a large language model, I cannot generate a reply to the script of the video.
blud think he chat gbt💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@Iamnotrandom565 bro what 💀
@@Iamnotrandom565 how funny ahahahaha nice comment
@@Iamnotrandom565Yea he used chatgpt for a CP
lol. lol. lol.
The content farm, funnily enough, reminds me of an old book. Reaper Man. Basically death gets fired for being too human, and ends up working on a a farm in the middle of nowhere. He sees a blacksmith making the first automated harvesting machine and gets very upset because he knows it's going to be the end of a way of life that kills the soul before the body dies. Just machines, no care or work ethic behind them, and millions out of a job for it.
This AI flood reminds me of that, only we can't just go out and stick a wrench into the gears and ask god for a second chance. But maybe we can hold on a while longer, show the wheat the care of human hands, err, _minds_ of loving sowers and reapers.
But we'd be crazy to deny we will be in the minority, at least for a while.
god doesn't exist
I feel like humans became ultimately too lazy to the point they hope AI starts doing stuff for them but gladly AI sometimes makes mistakes and it often can't recognize things or memes.
i'll show you my hands in a minute.
keep those d beaters away@@manboy4720
there is a fundamental difference between something made out of joy and passion and something made out of necessity like food
but anyways terry pratchett is an excellent writer
This genuinely made me feel really empty inside as soon as you mentioned the vision of the future that some people may have where everything is extremely polished but it's just A.I.
i'm actually a robot. bleep blorp.
lol
There's something deeply unsettling about the idea of a dystopian future that's superficially perfect and in turn keeps people content
this reminds me of a video i saw on how to reupload people's videos and everyone in the comments were on board with content theft. when some people called him out for it, he said they were just on a moral high horse. he also bullied small creators who disagreed with him.
do you know the channel?
Some people I swear..
Yeah god? Can you flood the earth again?
@@COMPYCUBE Evacuate all the cats and other good animals to a safe place, only then flood
@@Fafr Yeah.
it was a while ago, i dont remember@@RegentBaker9726
And that's exactly it! AI does not have a 'self'. It can't gush about how much it enjoyed TV show X or game Y. It can't feel and express those actual feelings through art. What I find most interesting in art is not even just the artwork on its own, but the thoughts, feelings, and ideas behind it. When you add that in, it elevates something from a simple drawing, painting, animation (etc.) to something else; something more
What if the ai will upgrade and can tell you all that, how he enjoyed tv etc. What it perfectly immates humans?
@@klefromyoutube9953it will suck? Like that'd be the doom of online creativity
@@klefromyoutube9953It still won't be its own opinions. The AI would probably collect the most popular opinions from the internet, process them then generate a response accurate to that.
I’m unable to imagine how people can only see TH-cam as a means to make money. When I joined TH-cam it was because I love making art and I love animating, and I wanted to share it with the world. Money was not part of it. It seemed almost magical too, being able to post things I made where lots of people can see it. It’s still magical for me today. So these ai content farm people, from my perspective, seem to be disrespecting TH-cam itself. It’s an affront to creativity.
THANK YOU!!!! You described how I feel exactly! Everything about this content farm garbage and AI bullshit is an insult and disgrace to the very face of artistry and creativity! Money and AI are going to be the downfall of us all!
@@thardump859 everytime I see one of those goddamn "how to start a faceless youtube channel in 12 minutes and make abolute BANK!" videos my heart doesn't shrink three sizes, it shrinks four.
It is. Sadly. Its a money machine. Hobbyists suffer
@hexyellow9873 they have done that, there was a website that wasn't about the advertising money and was just a place to share, I think it was called youtube or something
These people see EVERYTHING as only a means to make money. Money is the end goal. And to them, the end justifies all means.
Capitalism rots the brain. Resist it with humanity.
Fuck bro this shit hit hard, I used to make trash videos like this with Chatgbt writing my script and Ai doing the voices. It’s just removes all the creativity out of your own video
Redemption arc
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remember kids. hitting "do not recommend channel" can minimise the reach of ai channels and if enough people do this they won't be as profitable
That button does absolutely nothing. Just like the dislike button.
@@1marcelfilmsno frrr I'll hit that button on so many things and then find, maybe a month or so later they come back again in my feed. It's all a lie to make us feel like we have power
you would just train them to disguise themselves better duh
I feel the brainrot kicking in... I hate my life as is, I thin I'm gonna change it
That does nothing
as someone who used to really enjoy animation memes back in the day (I know it's cringey), I would really love to see a rise for authenticity over quality again. there's so many nowadays that just focus on being as pretty/smooth/eye-catching as possible and not simply just animators having fun like it used to be
It's not necessarily cringey; nothing really wrong with it, They're basically just the edits of times past
ik this isnt like related at all but please.... its cringy... not cringey..... please.
What does this have to do with ANYTHING
It became monetarily unsustainable as FUCK to post that stuff on YT which is why you dont see it anymore
@@TonyStark-yk4nh Yeah its odd I have zero clue how this is top comment
"In the future, humour will be randomly generated"
"Randomly generated?"
It gets truer and truer every year, before it was the random part, now it really is robots
@@LuisV396 RANDOMLY GENERATED!
weed eater
Once again, veggie tales predicts the future
I'm hoping that a perfectly tailored AI feed would just inevitably get boring, but seeing the current iPad kids situation, I'm terrified of what a certain type of parent would do, given the opportunity to hand their kid an endless feed of AI crap
It would be quite ironic if a content farm ended up copying this video as well
This is exactly what I was thinking lol, except I'm sure that if a content farm were to copy this video they'd find some way to twist the conclusion to be in favor of AI. It would still be incredibly ironic though
Nailed it.
I've said to people for a while now that monetisation ruined the internet. I remember watching Let's Plays of people playing games around 2010 and they were just doing it for the love of doing it. Videos had a decent chance of being entertaining, or at the very least done in a unique style. Nowadays, people make videos with the sole intent of making money from them.
At the end of the day, why would you put the time and effort into uploading a video on TH-cam if you aren't sure of its financial viability? Much safer to make the same sorts of videos as everyone else who is raking money in, rather than chance your own format.
How many times have you seen a video only to be greeted with "Hey there guys! Don't forget to smash that like button and subscribe so you don't miss a video!" Ugh... the cringe... How about a video with a clickbait-ey title? They don't just say that to be trendy, they say it because it's a fairly guaranteed way of upping their rankings of the algorithm and making their videos more prominent.
As you said, I think this was when people making unique stuff online started to drop off when they realised they just couldn't compete with what are basically money-making shitposts.
Imagine talking about AI content farms using AI, that would be the worst the worst can get
ai really is depressing ngl
@@DanaiHamit more specifically, how we're using it solely for profit is
actually that seems fitting
You know what I like about you? Your optimism. It is way too easy to be negative and cynical nowadays.
yes
people are too negative nowadays. theres so much negativity in fact there is barely any optimism. either way its all meaningless. what do you mean im being nihilistic?
The ending of this video has filled me with Determination. I am so relieved I am not hopeless in creating genuine Content to help or educate others. Long time fan and just wanted to say Thank You. I think I have what I need to create more and get better at it now.
undertale
@@LittleHelperFan *seeing other people fight against copycats fills you with DETERMINATION.
UNDERTALE FANS! APPEAR
@@DccToon NGAAAHHHH !!!!!!
DETERMINATION? LIKE THE HIT GAME UNDERTALE??? NOW WAE!!! SANS UNDERTAEL MEGOLOVANIA!!!! CHARA IS EVIL! THEY CONTROLLED FRISK!!!!1!1!1!1 I'M TELLING YOU BRUH THIS SHIT IS AWESOME
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I've noticed that i've been hitting the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" buttons much more frequently because of all of the AI slop that's been flooding my recommendations.
It’s getting really annoying seeing the exact same channel over and over because they stagnate, and then they make a NEW channel which gets shoved into my recommendations. Awful.
@@Mortomifrrr I swear these channels are the definition of insanity
This reminds me of something my old comics teacher told me. He said that art should first and foremost be made for ourselves, next for the people who care about it. He told me that TV companies call the shows we watch on TV _filler_ for the commercials- the ad space, which is the actual product they're selling.
real
Ironically, this crisis has made me a better artist by makimg me realize this.
damn, he nailed that one
Glad to see your upload
Chess example you mentioned is something I have also talked about a lot, as computers were just a stepping stone for humans to get better at chess I think so will happen with ai too (not necessarily with chess but something else)
only real problem I have ai is if companies use it as cheap labor to provide sub-par product and also stealing art from artists, who are already struggling most of the time
What he said 😂
ChatGPT did wonders with the script writing this time around.
I chuckled at the sight of the "I'm sorry but I cannot generate an product title for" item name, even though I knew it was coming.
I'm a musician and have been focusing on that entirely, trying to jumpstart a career, and I've stayed away from TH-cam and content creation in fear of being seen as a 'TH-cam Rapper', but at this point I'm thinking I need to start making content again just to fight this AI garbage. It scares me. The normalization of this horseshit freaks me the FUCK out and I think it's my responsibility to try to do my part to combat it even a tiny bit with real content.
The one thing I don't understand about all this.
Where's the fun? It's gone. I don't understand why you'd want to take the fun away.
"Fun"????
Pffff you idiot, "fun" has no market value 💸💸🤑💲💰
You're not going to increase your stocks with that mindset
The reason is money
The maddening thing is that these ai content farms are just going to become more and more common
Thanks for explaining this! Happened to me.
"almost everyone has a feed uniquely tailored to them" That's not how TH-cam's algorithm works though. If you look at the subscription patterns of random commenters, or compare the videos you get recommended with your friends, you'll see that the way the algorithm works is that people get grouped together into broad categories and shown the same videos within a category.
Buddy he’s talking about a hypothetical future
@@AetherNoble Right, in a few years TH-cam's algorithm will suddenly become 100x more sophisticated than any social media algorithm to ever exist. Guess we'll see.
I also believe that long format videos are taking off somehow, of course it involves someone who is a natural or trained entertainer, but it is becoming more appealing. This video gives me hope as I also hope to be able to form a niche around literary art topics but been feeling discouraged as content automation and people doing souless stuff are virtually everywhere. At the end of the day, AI is not gonna rob us, but people will be forced to actually come up with quality content blending human effort and AI to excel over other AI youtuber as their content is not only boring but extremely repetitive at this point and it's been little more than a year since the AI boom.
Most long format videos are incredibly lazy aside from length, a lot of them fall in the trap of describing the entire piece of media they are reviewing with very few actual review or analysis bits through out, that is not good content.
@@CoracaoAcidental98 I think that is way too common in anime/videogames reviews. They tend to give any kind of info or background as irrelevant as it may be. However, most videos out there (no matter the length) are lazy, they may have good edits or something but they are just average at best. When you consume media, it is up to you what kind of quality you want to consume, curating what you watch.
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It’s depressing to me that making videos is about making money nowadays and not about doing something you enjoy
The things people will do for money man
As an aspiring content creator and journalism student, i've been thinking about the future of AI and creation for years, and that last part about parasocial relationships is the exact conclusion I came to.
I make the comparison to vinyl records and film photography, digital is 100 times more "practical" and mass produced, but there will always be a demand for authenticity and tangibility. You know how it was a big deal that the movie Oppenheimer didn't use any CGI, when studios used to brag about how much CGI they used? I can see the exact thing happening with AI
To expand, I think the loneliness epidemic will aid with authentic creation (as dystopian as that sounds). Podcasts and live streaming exploded during the pandemic because people wanted to feel some sort of human connection, and even though those 2 areas haven't seen the same numbers, it's undeniable that people feel lonelier than ever, especially younger people. I can only imagine the demand of parasocial relationships going up in the future
5:44 that image is absolutely beautiful
I swear, the internet is slowly becoming less and less of a tolerable place to be on. It used to be a chaotic mess that was fun to be on, then corporate took over and killed the fun now it's like beating a dead horse by everyone and their grandmother using Ai to get lazy on creativity and/or to scam folks. I'm an artist so.. I actively use art sites and when Ai """""art""""" started being a thing, it started flooding nearly every art site I use, making them practically unusable. People like this are legitimately killing the creative space and it's downright infuriating.
I have found random channels (possibly made by AI) that answer to a random question in their video. Their profile pictures are faces which look kinda distorted. Also they upload many videos in a day. (Like once every 20-30 minutes or so)
Edit: Their names are usually like "Q&A! w/ (insert name here)" Their videos feel bland with a text to speech voice.
I don’t like watching short videos. They all have an unnecessary narrator with giant captions taking up the whole screen and you can’t escape these types of videos because they’ve taken over.
Sucks what the internet has turned into.
I think even if the future as described in the video will become true, there will still be appreciation for man-made videos. Like in this age of automatization, there are still those who value and are ready to pay for something completely man-made, or how people value movies with practical effects more than CGI spectacles.
This is so depressing... but... what if everyone made bot channels to subsidize their hobbies so that they can make whatever they want without worrying about the algorithm or adsense since their bot channels got that already covered?
i think something important is also that some people use ai for videos bc they hate their voice/face so if we actually help people with mental health, it might cause a big spike in people actually showing their true selves on yt
3:56, even blurred, you can see the checkmarks. They're bots. And with that check, twitter pushes them to the top.
People using AI for meme videos is honestly the most depressing use of AI in something that's supposed to be creative. YTP makers didn't laborously spend hours in editing software splicing dialogue from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Hotel Mario in 2008 so you could use AI to make unfunny Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro meme edits. It lacks style and a love for the shitposting craft, and it'll age worse than milk left out in the summer heat for a week once the AI bubble finally bursts.
9:31 MAN CARRYING THING
youtube will probably ban these content farms someday, they're easy and fast to make and bleed youtube's money out of youtube's pockets
TH-cam has always hated quick automated content like this, they will probably pass a new rule where if you make AI content farms you get demonetized
8:10. Common misconception about Tom. He is *not* retired. He ended the weekly videos. He still is making content, such as his podcast "Lateral" and his weekly newsletter.
I can’t say that anything I’ve uploaded to this site was insightful or deep, but at least I was the one to make it. It came from me having fun, without the need of an algorithm or ai. Thank you for making me want to push myself to make more creative projects.
I just love your videos. I love the blankness of bot having music.
Fun fact: at 9:33 you can see a video editing software with many videos loaded. One of those videos shows a brown shirt with an emblem. That emblem belongs to the "Pathfinders Club", a scouting club for 10-15 year olds themed around a specific religion called 7th Day Adventism. I know all of that because I used to be a member of it. To be more specific, I was in the Club de Conquistadores, which is the Spanish-speaking version of the same thing.
And it’s all being dragged down by low retention rates, toxic internet culture, corporatism, and basically anything that exploits viewers and the algorithm. Oh and the algorithm itself
I despise the word "content" and how its used but now that i think about it the word perfectly describes what this content AI slop is. Its not art, its just content. "Content" the stuff that fills a video with no artistic merit, meaning, purpose or passion. Humans care about stories and art only because humans made it thats why AI is trying to hide its not human because knowing it makes it clear that whatever AI generates has no value. This AI slop is like trash TV, fast food and maybe even drugs. Its fast, easy and there is a lot of it but it will never completely replace the originals. What we need to do as a collective is to de-mystify AI because people do not care of things that anybody can make the only reason why this AI slop exists is because its new and not a lot of people understand it yet.
Great video, was recently writing an essay about artificial intelligence and this video really shined a light about AI and how it can be used for horrible purposes.
Me sitting in court watching an ai video of me committing a crime I never committed
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"Humanity's desparate search for perfection will only lead to the brutal realization that imperfection is what it truly desires." - Some random comment I saw on the internet
I felt the need to comment something. I know that I used to actually watch TTS and stock footage videos. But they always felt so shallow and at the end they didnt contain anything worth remembering. Having said this Im sure that Ill remember this video
1:56 there are ai editing tools that put videos together automatically
So glad I found your channel. I can already tell this will be up there with Sam O’Nella and tierzoo at the pinnacle of informational TH-cam. ❤❤❤
13:53 I think that genuinely is the main difference. I do like AI as a tool, but the thing is its just a computer. All it can do is crunch numbers, its a fancy version of auto complete, you give it some guidelines and it basically fills in the rest with weighted averages.
Oh dear, they're even selling shovels. Not sure how sustainable this business model is.
All I can say is that when grifters sell shovels and courses instead of performing the scheme itself, chances are that the niche money making opportunity is very saturated.
I had also come across an AI-generated video suspiciously similar to yours, though I suspect that it's different due to not remembering that bizarre thumbnail. I didn't have the foresight to keep the URL safe either, but when I found it it had a pretty low view count, and I highly doubt it's gotten higher since due to it's low quality, if it even exists at all. So sorry that this happened to you, I've only seen stuff like this more and more, while AIs are only really effective at "copying" certain types of content, what they are effective at copying- video essays-, unfortunately, take a significant amount of time to produce and thus being effectively stolen from is simply devastating.
I myself started doing top 10s. My character, Commissioner LawWonder along with Sergeant Stensland tend to do these topics. But with text, no speech. And since I never use Chat GPT or Open AI to write the script, I tend to write my own stuff.
The biggest challenge generative AI is facing is copyright infringement lawsuits.
I wasn't sure what this was all about since I didn't think I'd come across any of these videos. But now I remember, I have noticed a few videos with poor text to speech and there seem to be quite a lot of them on TH-cam. Now it makes so much more sense why there are so many of them.
unrelated to the topic of the video, but glad to hear "Walk Through the Park" as the background track starting at 5:45
Gaming is one of the easiest for a 'faceless channel'. All you need is gameplay, good editing and scripting. Not surprised if people use A.I. to do all of that.
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It's genuinely depressing to see what the "AI Revolution" has done to the world in just a year, creativity is basically dying as people like this are just churning out content with ZERO effort and making tons of money mostly by stealing other people's creative work. I really hope this is somehow put to an end before things just get even worse, I used to imagine that eventually AI or something might begin to replace people's jobs but not this quickly, it's actually insane how fast it started.
I wasn't expecting Very Tall Bart to be mentioned
People will still look for communities and shared experiences in future because that's the human nature, so I would fathom that there will always be demand for content not specifically tailored to just themselves. The easy way to end the video on an optimistic note :D
I think a thing people often forget with the current state of ai is the format of the media it takes currently. Most of the way we see/interact with ai is thru image and text. Text is especially interesting format as an author can convey emotion without necessarily feeling them. That makes it possible for a nonfeeling author(like Chatgpt) to write a fairly moving piece of text. We see a similar thing with images... and while videos are technically a series of images, the images have to work together extremely well to produce a bigger picture and often ai is not capable of the emotion required to develop a story thru movement and suspense in metaphor... I have high hopes ai will be more or less confined to its niches and a new video creation platform is necessary that you tie a real life identity to, i.e. one account per person.
I have no clue how your last video didn't do well. Feels like your channel is in a weird spot for the algorithm. I'm sure you'll have another explosion soon! Keep up the great work!
The Best youtuber I ever seen
I’m so happy this channel came into my feed!
Ive even seen some comments on my videos and on many other upcoming small creators videos on how people are happy that theyve found something just, fun and genuine
that pendulum is swinging and its swinging fast
I feel like you should've mentioned the era of lets plays and watch mojo. The type of content farm before a i
I think it's about due time we start the war on people who exploit AI. Dislikes, spurning the abuse of AI, etc. They were right about one thing: why ARE we just sitting around while these people are making thousands and even millions exploiting cheap and low-effort methods of content creation, thus letting truly passionate content creators sink underneath the pile of sludge they make?
Ugh. I've seen such videos get recommended to me on my TH-cam homepage from time to time, but would just dislike the video, remove it from my watch history, and select ‘Don't recommend channel’ in the menu next to the video on the homepage, as I'd brush them aside.
I didn't think about cataloguing examples of those as I'm working on other projects at the same time, however as part of one of those projects, I took note of a TH-cam user named 'DJ Ware' / 'CyberGizmo' who, prior to November 2023, used AI generated thumbnails. I'm glad he stopped using AI, though, as an aspiring artist who wants to develop his own art style partially because he can't afford to hire certain artists to design for him (who also happen to be professional artists who do so as a career, not indie artists who do so as a hobby like a number of video game TH-camrs seem to hire for their thumbnails and/or branding).
(3:47) At that point, you reminded me of a Twitter post thread from someone who made an entire picture book using AI tools and sold it on Amazon as a self-published book. I can tell he wasn't a real bookworm because he referred to the book as a ‘children's book’ instead of the specific term ‘children's picture book’ or, what I would use, ‘picture book’. The thread caught the attention of real authors and illustrators who work on books aimed at children, who then not only reposted bits of the thread to their followers (including me), but also criticised him for not understanding the amount of creativity and work that goes into fiction books.
(3:54) That reminded me of AI tutorial videos on TH-cam and the comments on those.
(6:01) I agree. Not only are creative people not getting paid, but as far as I know, the AI art bots in particular, or at least DALL-E, seem to have been made with the intention of providing reference images to real artists and illustrators, but instead mostly get abused by people who likely are greedy and don't understand the value of creativity.
10:25 "a lot of time on SEO optimization" should have just been "a lot of time on SEO" or "a lot of time on search engine optimization"
I love using ATM machines
SMH my head
Robots and tech are good but I swear people use them in wrong ways and one of the wrong ways is to literally have it run your channel for you or other stuff.
5:49 who is that guy
I'm so fucking tired of all the AI trash everywhere, AI this AI that, sometimes I just wanna shut down everything, but I can't.... :)(
This kind of stuff makes me depressed, but enough non-creator friends I've talked to literally don't care at all about this that I think it might just be the way things go. This is just not the kind of world for art that I want to have happen.
Personally I don’t think actual creators will completely disappear, people like watching and feeling connected with other people, both the creator and by bonding over art with others. I suspect platforms like Nebula will grow, so while there’ll still be masses of AI sludge people will create enclaves of more curated work, either as separate platforms or on existing ones
This is sorta why I've fallen back on watching various Minecraft youtubers. People like MumbJumbo, Ethoslab, Iskall85, all of them just feel genuine
2:26 whaaat? I have one video with around 750k views which made me a total of nine dollars. Certainly this 10k figure is a bit exaggerated?
A huge key here is indeed whoever is clicking on the sludge. I'm surprised this didn't cover bot accounts whose purpose is to click and interact. That would be a full circle of sewage garbage.
Im worried that this type of content will eroded information that nobody will have an understanding of anything anymore.
For example say you want to learn art, some tutor say to learn perspective first, ok you say to yourself. You try to find a video here to learn that. You watched some video but its not make sense because its an ai trying to explain a concept they don't understand.
Well until we have AI powered androids that are indistinguishable from humans, you can still find your local art teacher and take some lessons.
once real ai hits we will be done all work will be done by people who own robots that they rent to people who need to get work done and they will just scrape all ai shit from the past when there was real humans around humanity sinks into a deep slumber
Art feels so freeking dead nowadays because of ai when i was a bit younger i was exited for advanced technology to remove the need of work then we humans can do the more fun and human thing of art but no to optimistic i guess (also yt videos are a type of art imo)
The scary thing is we are moving towards a monpoly where big companies literally own all these youtube channels. Rich are getting richer and the depressed are getting more depressed.
I think people watch garbage videos only because of autoplay. And also when searching for something and there is none of normal videos on this subject.
I have an idea! I don't know how good that idea is, but it would be interesting to delve into:
What if we had a filter by monetization? That way, we can actively choose the ones who either earn a lot, just "making a living", earning a little bit for sides, or nothing at all, and it could help us appreciate the ones who have hardly any profit-based motivation to make their content.
Im sorry, but I cannot generate a response to that in accordance with OpenAI policies.
At the risk of having everyone dog pile on me, I've been in financial situations, hell I'm in a financial situation that would definitely warrant doing something repulsive like this. I feel like unless you're a person that's had a family with an eviction notice or a loved one with treatment they desperately need, it's not really fair to judge people based on how they make money. Plagiarism, like what happened here, that's not okay. I honestly hate AI videos in general and I wish youtube would restrict them. There's so much false information that comes out of them. Understand that I, also as a creative person, do not like these videos. But I'm also a person who has friends who have had to sell themselves, I've personally experienced what it's like to live on the streets as a child, and if it came down to it I would do damn near whatever I had to do to make sure that doesn't happen to my children. Compared to others I've known, making a soulless video is a lot more appealing than selling my body or any other number of things. The state of the world these days... well, we all know it. I'm just putting in my two cents, my very human, my very compassionate, two cents.
Edit: I wanted to say that I do like your videos, I really value the differences we as humans can have in perspective. That's why I added mine. I hope people take it the right way.
Remember when the most advanced ai chat bots were cleverbot or eviebot? I used to love to play around with those chat bots bc they would give such nonsensical responses. Simpler times
A.I. Content Farm: Hey, it's free real estate.
AI was a gift to content farmers, creatively bankrupt idea guys and grifters around the world.
I am very glad to see at least some people denouncing it and wishing for a return from less "content"-oriented algorithm pleasing trash, towards more genuine videos.
Love how you chose AP the year right before the heat death of the universe.
Quality video. Future can be scary sometimes, I hope SORA won't be good as openai shows it, if it's will be the case AI video will be more and more common.... The the tech progress says it will happen one day in all cases...
One thing I fear about AI video, is that it will make video surveillance evidence useless. Any corrupt prosecutor can fabricate surveillance video of innocent people just to get convictions, and any defense attorney can claim any video was AI generated. These AI programs need a mandatory paper trail of all content they create, so it's possible to know for sure whether anything was AI generated or not.
man youtube is really going down the gutter with all the ai slop that is being turned out onto it. Thank you for reporting on this