i love how when these guys describe their business model, the thing their describing is actually just plagiarism. No hiding it, or obfuscating it behind fancy words or nothin'. They litterally just describe the act of plagiarism. it would be funny if it werent so sad.
and it's wild how they all spin it like it's their brand new, state of the art idea, so even their idea of plagiarism they plagiarised from someone else, it's an ouroboros of stealing
@@henryisdumbthat is so true. I can't tell you how much stuff told me to go copy ideas from others on the business side of social media. Especially dropshipping. The first step is copying tbh.
What I don't understand is why TH-cam doesn't close the accounts of people that not only plagiarise, but brag about it. Is YT so desperate for ad income that they not only allow but encourage this mode of behavior? Wow....things have really changed since YT started back in the late 2000s.
@@WIDGI I could write an extended response to that, and to be frank I did, pointing out all the myriad ways that smart little post of yours is absolutely absurd, but why use 200 words when one will suffice? lol.
To me, one of the most annoying parts about this AI oversaturation is that even if you realize and navigate away, you often can't do it quickly enough to avoid adding to their view count. Then the YT algorithm starts putting more AI in your feed because of the one interaction.
If you realise a long-form content is plagiarised/AI-assisted nonsense, click pause and report the closest option you think fits. Then, if you have time, go to the chanell, look trough upload history and metrics (chanell info) and see the patterns of titles/thumbnails if you can. You can report the chanell and videos hopefully breaching guidelines in bulk without watching them. Lately it's more important for dis/mis-information - like foreign agent (autocratic black-propaganda) chanells, but knowing what is harmful takes indepth knowledge of enemie's propaganda system, so (geo)political stuff is not for most people watching this. Nevertheless, the next time if you see a known, harmful chanell (or obvious AI nonsense clickbait) in recommendations, click three choice dot buttons and choose "Do not recommend the chanell".
I saw a creator the other day (blond boy band type) who had 44million subs. He was a disgrace and his editing meant his voice just never stopped! Unbelievable what junk was coming out of his mouth and the images... Glad I don't remember his name. I clicked out of there as soon as I could but I should have down voted it. It was his humour that for some reason just disgusted me but nothing reportable. @dannydetonator thanks for reminding me where the 'don't recommend' button is, I always forget. I'm a bit traumatized these days and see the recomended video column with, nervous impatience I guess. It's the influencer tactics that irritate me with their titles and cringe faces... They feel like a personal attack or like they're all scammers - which they're not all. This video had me wondering for a while, but I'm glad I stayed :)
@@LetsGoChaseThatTrain Creators you downvote are less likely to get recommended to you in the future so you're less likely to keep giving them more engagement long-term.
Worse than that are the IG and YT shorts with reuploaded wholesome videos voiced by AI with an Amazon voucher and fake comments thanking them for making them save money... It is literally plaguing my feed, I'm so sick of them, it's nauseating at this point
Unless it works differently, you should be able stop those types of videos from appearing by clicking those 3 dots and selecting 'not interested' Might take a few times but I find eventually, you won't see the channels anymore.
@missamanda2703 For long content there is an option "do not recommend THE CHANELL". Seems to be working for me, at least after 2nd/3rd attempt. As i don't care about shorts, idk how to block them. YT will YT in the end, i suggest stop watching (unknown) shorts or especially commenting under undesirable content.
I instantly set "Do not recommend channel" for ALL channels with AI anything, especially voiceovers. AI is all about integrity-free dimmest, lowest-common-denominator theft, not surprising but very depressing. My faith in humanity just dropped another notch. At least people catch on and stop watching them eventually. They're just boring.
There are a variety of reasons people may use AI voice overs for legitimate reasons, it's not always about faster production or cheaping out. I for example use AI for voices on my other channel because I have mutism, but I still want to do video essays or expalin things with not just text on a screen. I don't use any AI for anything I can do myself, like research, writings scripts or editing. I don't even use stock footage, I record everything myself. Another area I use AI is when creating background music. Since I don't earn anything from youtube yet, I don't have anything I could invest into music licenses. There are free human-made songs available, but often these come with clauses and I don't have any copyright over them, so if someone else uses the same music in their video and then monetises it, they may still false-claim my videos, too. It's just the best cause to AI-generate original melodies and have them run quietly in the background as background noise. To get back to the voice thing, there are also people with simply not youtube-friendly voices, where they are hard to understand because they can't properly pronouce english words or have stuttering issues. AI voice over is just gonna be the better viewer experience here. It's not stealing from anyone either.
@@LucyKosaki I agree with AI voiceover, especially since you can find ones that use voices given with permission. But about music... it feels iffy still. I know almost all music Neffex produces is free to use, so maybe try using theirs? They own the copyright so some random people shouldn't be able to fake dmca it I think?
One problem with this type of content generation is the consumers don’t care that it’s stolen content, so there’s no disincentivizing this behavior without help from TH-cam, or some kind of legal support
exactly, and because most of the content they steal is normally stuff like "top ten" videos or like "wtf moments" you've got no leg to stand on, like who really owns the video if it's "top ten zelda moments" it's just like common knowledge you know so they can get away with it
it's not always not caring either, just because you or I are savy enough to see through it, know what's going on, doesn't mean the wider audience are. There's plenty of people that truly *believe* the pictures with that creepy smoothness, or the videos that are just slightly off, and they can't tell that the AI's pronunciation in the video is dead, listless, and the inflections are wrong.
"I don't want AI to create art, poetry and music. What I want is time, so I can create all of that myself". Paraphrasing it a bit, but ever since I read this online, I've realised how simple minded we are being towards AI and all automated services that have recently come up. Like, I want them to do the dishes, clean my house, do my grocery shopping, do my finances,... I don't want a robot to tell me in a video essay nor in a poem, how to relax or what to expect in the first weeks of uni!
EXACTLY, i saw that quote the other day, we want to use AI to do the boring stuff we don't want to do anymore, so we can have time to do the things we love
AI and all automation services would be great if we had already evolved as a society and people didn't need the menial jobs to survive (like cleaners, cashiers and trash collectors). But unfortunately we don't live in a society were people's basic needs are met because of the exact same people that will be replacing us with AI because it will be cheaper for the companies they control so they can make even more money. Because remember, the rich don't just want some money, they want *all* of the money.
@@think-about-it-777 Data was a different kind of AI with a level of consciousness and nous that made him a person, not the kind of mindless generative "AI" that exists to churn out valueless garbage videos and images for clickbait.
AI generated content has been a very depressing thing for me to think about lately. While I think it can be helpful in some cases, most of the time it's just used to scam people. You can no longer trust online recipes, crochet patterns, courses, books, ect you can buy online, because the space is getting taken over by AI nonsense. I'm an artist and even just looking for image references on google has become hard, because most of it is generic, unusable trash. I've never heard of these guys before, but I hope they fade into obscurity soon. I hope we never have to see a TH-cam homepage that's just filled with mindless brainrot AI content.
i can't imagine what it's like as an artist it must be hell, and that's not even thinking about all the AI learning that is trained from legit stealing people's work without paying them, urgh
@@chownful there’s a difference as wide as the grand canyon between saying a computer simply “looks up image references” instead of what it actually does, which is frankenstein together people’s work without paying for it, dodging paywalls and hoovering up assets, so much so that so many ai image generators returned results with the “getty images” watermark underneath. opposed to an idiot like me simply being bad at art but taking inspiration from things they’ve witnessed in life
@@chownful there is a monumental difference between taking inspiration from and stealing if i bought the same TV as you because i thought it was cool that would be alright, but if i went into your house and took your TV when you weren’t around, without telling you and without paying for it that’s a slightly different story
If I’m not getting the AI generated rubbish then I’m getting the guru videos urging me to create more of it. The ‘dead internet’ prophecy is coming true faster than I expected.
In my opinion, copy and pasting to an AI application is straight up pure plagiarism. I prefer to handtype my own words into my videos. I don't like stealing from other TH-camrs. I don't care how big or how small they are. I tend to work hard on making my content. And If I do use pictures of other Tubers' videos, I'll gladly give credit.
exactly, that's the thing i find the most insane about it, how they feel it's completely ok to steal things and act like they're true geniuses for doing so
@Jack-px8lf The AI models were created using stolen texts as training, so regardless it is still stealing. You know how you get better at writing? Practice. If you use AI all the time you'll never get better at it. Also, AI very often makes up things in their texts and even in the "sources" that can very well be AI generated themselves. The more people use AI for things the less non-Ai content will be around for the AI to reference and the worse it will be.
"Leveraged" is a hell of a euphemism. That interviewer for Omari comes off as genuinely fighting back disgust when he has to ask this cocky confident "entrepreneur" whether he has slaves. You're seeing someone realising what "passive income" means in real time there. The gross part is that people like Omari think everyone else envies them.
i thought that too when watching the full pod, but later on he seems to be won over by omari and instantly starts talking down on how bad his thumbnail artist and editor is and how he shouldn't have to pay them alot because it's an "easy job"
It’s hard to stand out as creatives in a landscape filled with automation and lazy content! Such an eye opener to a channels I’d never heard of and the evil they are getting away with! Great video!
If it was hard before, it's harder now due to the sheer number of videos uploaded by these "ai creators" daily, but like ghostcat said, anything original and human will definitely get more merit if it manages to reach the audience 😅 Edit : i can't spell
I hired a lawyer to help me with a car accident. Near the end, I swear they felt like I was a bother. When I was waiting for my money, they hired a family member and she asked me to review them BEFORE we were done. I left a 2 star review. My lawyer flailed and asked the stars to be changed as he handed my money over and went back on his words. When we started the hiring, he said “I take 1/3 pain and suffering.” When he cut the check, he took 1/3 everything and tried to take more for hospital bills ALL READY PAID. After I changed the stars, he tossed me $4k. Still not happy I was strong armed into changing a google review, but I would never use him again, either. AI will take that 4 star and run with it, ignoring my now reviews.
**ChatGPT** To perform the Heimlich Maneuver (abdominal thrusts) on a choking person, follow these steps: For a conscious adult or child: Assess the situation: Ask the person if they are choking. If they can't speak, cough, or breathe, act quickly. Position yourself: Stand behind the person. Wrap your arms around their waist. Make a fist: Place your fist just above the person’s navel (belly button) and below the rib cage. Perform abdominal thrusts: Grasp your fist with your other hand. Give quick, upward thrusts into the abdomen. Use enough force to dislodge the object blocking the airway. Repeat until the object is expelled: Continue thrusts until the person can breathe, cough, or the object is forced out. For a pregnant or obese person: Perform chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts. Place your fist at the center of the breastbone (sternum) and follow the same procedure. For an unconscious person: Call emergency services (if not done yet). Lay the person on their back. Begin CPR (chest compressions), as this can also help dislodge the object. For an infant under 1 year: Instead of abdominal thrusts, use back blows and chest compressions. Seek medical attention after the procedure, even if the person seems fine, to ensure no internal injuries.
@@quinintheclouds i got addicted to the music platform and they made the ads experience on actual youtube atrocious. I would prefer to watch mugiwara goof talk about one piece ad free. Them videos is lowkey long. Also i kinda hate how these platforms be pushing subscriptions on something that improves my life, which i am refering to music so i may dumb my subscription down for the music platform only. If they ain't messed up my system i had going for google music i would not have been shuttled over to youtube music.
@@justmika6964 hmmm looks like yt deleted my comment lol, must be a certain word I used it doesn't like people knowing about :P Basically I said you can get firefox instead of chrome, since google doesn't own it, and then your... how do I word this without yt getting mad? Firefox's ADditional B LOCKer works
@@justmika6964 gdi yt deleted that too.... basically get firefox cause google doesn't own it so add sunblock works (minus the "sun" ...i hope you can glean what I'm trying to convey lol)
If grifters advertise some new fancy moneymaking "hack" to people, and tell them to buy their course or whatever, it means the hack has already been exploited to its max so it doesnt work anymore. Of course the people buying the courses lost a lot of money. And we're stuck with an overflow of ai crap from people who keep doing it and arent making the dollars they were promised, but keep hoping for that one big payout
These people talk about editing their own videos like it's impossible. It's like they don't know how to tie their own shoes, but when you try teaching them, they tell you you're crazy because they've only seen self-tying Nikes like Back to the Future.
The AI bubble is the same as the VR craze. Everyone is so obsessed with shoving it in prodiucts without thinking if they should. It also reminds me of the Etsy exodus over drop shipping. Removing the human elemenet over inherrantly human products.
It's more akin to the _smart_ craze. Put BT and inter net connectivity in things that *do not* need to connect. And create various security holes along the way as devices get bricked due to company bankrupcy.
At the risk of sounding like an AI who copied and regurgitated this comments section: this is an incredible video and your channel deserves so much more attention! The editing, the script, the quality, the humor, the insight, just **chef's kiss** Now that's content! Watched the whole thing and subscribed happily :D Best of luck and thanks for shining a light on this!! AI is a scary tool when used for art, writing, music, voice acting, and all sorts of things that frankenstein real people's creativity into digestible commodity so as not to pay the people whose talents and efforts are dedicated to these jobs
I'm usually not a pessimist, but the future of the internet looks so bleak the more I think about AI. Millions of faceless, mindless bots stealing countless works of real human art, grinding it all up, and churning out an endless stream of amalgamated dreck for people to gawk at for a few minutes before moving on to the next distraction on their feed, as insubstantial and consumable as potato chips. And not just bots creating content, but also bots that write reviews, reply to those reviews, share links, like and subscribe, comment, buy, sell... it's all just a bunch of software programs circle-jerking each other! When it's going to end? When is something going to give?
I was blown away at the end of your video when you said "400 subscribers". Video was top notch, I watched all the way through. Seems you have a lot more subscribers now, including me! Keep it up my man.
Honestly, David Omari absolutely owns the title of TH-cam millionaire. Because just like regular millionaires, he’s just grifting off of the hard work of other people and posturing like he’s some sort of self made genius.
There is an old saying that you can't con an honest man. Every single one of these people who "lost money" with this course were all willing to follow the advice of "borrowing" other people's content to make their own videos.
I think that’s partially true, but most of it is because his video is actually good, well edited, he’s got skits, he had a good title and thumbnail, etc.. The algorithm of course is the supreme leader, but those other things factor in as well. TLDR dude made good video.
@@FerociousPancake888Yes, this...and clearly took a lot of time to create. Some of the things he brought up would take a very long time to research alone. Like deep diving into who was behind the Trust Pilot comments and putting all that together. Definitely appreciate the effort and it did make a good video.
As a child you get trained that you have to perform on a time limit. In sports and school. For 20 years you only get rewards when you perform within the time limit. And then you become an adult. Now when someone comes to you with a reward with a time limit you have to walk away because it is a 99% for sure scam.
oh my goddd. been so creatively stumped and I’ve seen this problem manifest down to guitar tabs being incorrectly AI generated…. this was a very insightful video. I want to make one with my own thoughts soon. dark time to be a creative.😢 new subscriber sir very good work!!!
OKAY I’ve since tried to validate my suspicion, but I can’t prove it… OK so ultimate guitar tabs has been everyone’s primary source for years. The past year more and more in the past six months I’ve noticed that more and more music has been taken off of there, like if you’re looking for an issues tab it might say sorry this artist doesn’t want This here! at the same time; all these ‘play along while the AI correct you pay monthly’ services are poppin up and like the only places to find tabs now and lot of them are dog sh**!!!., I tried free trial and tried to learn the beers by the front bottoms, could remember three out of four of the cords that I needed from the ultimate version, none of which appeared in the stupid app; so dumb . I’m pretty confident it’s a symptom of the same issue, but who knows
@@KineticKell that's so unbelievably strange, i'm glad it's not just me that falls down AI related rabbit holes every now and again, i'm even in another one at the moment as the video i'm working on next is about spotify and oh my word it's hellish
Well-researched, well-presented, and well-debated. Found you through the algorithm, Henry! Really enjoyed your dissection of the "business model" so many people are trying to "leverage."
There's nothing more ethical about a "small, family-run" business. Individual artisans editing these videos? That's labor. Hiring a 15 year-old in a small town to make you 50k a year in profit while you and your wife take a road trip out to your fifth property? That's exploitation.
This is a great deep dive into some of the ridiculous YT nonsense out there - it's so disheartening to watch YT devolve into just a trash heap of AI generated content because of dudes like this, and the real creators get drowned out. I really like your videos and funny take on things, happily subscribed! :)
I despise these people not just because plagiarism is awful but also it just FLOODS youtube with so much empty drivel, and to think someone is profiteering off that.. angery
ngl if you didn't mention anything about your subscriber count i never would have looked and noticed how comparitively small your channel is?? idk why but i kept getting your vids recommended and watched some and genuenly thought your channel is much bigger. keep up the great work dude
Hi! I worked in the CG team that made "Frozen Land" shown at 8:19 and wanted to set the record straight on that particular film: That title and Frozen knockoff cover art was done by the distributor, post cinema release, without consent of the studio or the director. (Disney sued them, rightfully.) The film was released in theaters as, and is actually called, "The Legend Of Sarila". Google it for the real poster art. (It's an inuit tale and has zero in common with Frozen other than both their worlds are cold, lol.) You know what else? It's the first ever Canadian full length animated feature film! Now if only that fun fact weren't so overshadowed by the unscrupulous distributor ordering someone to copy the Frozen font to sell more copies to confused grandmas... 😵 (ps: nice videoessay, sir.)
well now i feel like a complete ass hahahh, thankyou so much for clarifying that, that is both an incredible achievement and also an insanely infuriating move from the distributor
@@henryisdumbHaha, no hard feelings. ❤ Nobody knows the movie cause it didn't do very well in cinemas. The story is a bit dull and the only famous cast was Christopher Plummer for the villain. 🤷♂️ That said, I still enjoyed doing 3D character rigging for it and the creator was nice enough to do a making-of for the DVD extras and I'm featured in it along with much of the 3D team, hehe.
I love the 400 subscriber joke at the end of the video. Because in 4 months you've managed to do what I haven't in eight years. Guess I should get better at content making LOL. Great video
it's all completely randomly happened in the course of one week, this time seven days ago i had 700 subs still no idea how or why it's happened the only thing i've done in that time was change the title and the thumbnail and uploaded one incredibly long video that just supercharged it as youtube's all about watch time and viewing sessions at the moment, that was about it
The Seinfeld impression won my subscription. A joke so old reminded me that you are human and deserve this sub more than any AI Automated channel live right now.
Very well put together video! I loved the pacing and the small slices of humor mixed between the serious points. Always love it when TH-cam puts me on smaller creators with a fresh perspective and style.
You really deserve recognition for the hard work you put into your content. This video was awesome. It's not just extremely informative, but entertaining too. Crazy to think you only had 400 subscribers when making it, your passion for the topic, script writing and creating videos really shows. Keep up the great work ❤
@@henryisdumb your welcome. I love watching talented up and coming creators, it's like finding a precious gem thats value is about too increase massively. It's hard to stand out on a platform with so many putting out content, but its nice to see when the algorithm notices and suggests a gem such as yourself. I have a feeling this TH-cam stuff is going to work out for you! 😉
I wish there was a "Recommend" Button for this video. The whole A.I. thing is basically a scam, and big TH-cam Channels like VidIQ know this. The thing I hate the most about this is that everyone loves to promote this, but they fail to show their own results. Let me ask you, the person that's reading this when you click on these "How to create an AI Automation Channel" videos, how many of them actually show you the end results? How many of them tell you that it's "free" but fail to mention that it's free for a limited time until you HAVE to pay to use more of the AI tools service. How many of them actually show you the channel being monetized and making money? Not many of them. I've seen a lot of these videos from big channels where they all both show you and tell you the same thing which are: -Show you a channel that's already monetized and is receiving cash but blur out the channel so you don't know what that channel name is. -Use other big channels to support their claim on how using AI can get you thousands of dollars. -Tell you to pick your niche and all that other crap on how to start up a TH-cam Channel. -Use an AI tool that they're promoting and show you how "easy" it is. -Disregard the fact that the AI tool is "free" but will eventually be a pay-to-play thing. -Upload the AI video and end the video with telling you how easy it is. -Oh and don't forget to like and subscribe Hell, it's even gotten up to the point where I'm seeing ads on social media about this. And the worst part about it is that they'll use a channel that doesn't use AI and state that they do use it. This lie right here gives them an example to use in their video, and Invideo.io is a prime example of using this tactic to get viewers to use their product.
I some jackass can copyright strike me for playing 5 seconds of Yackity Sacks (Benny Hill theme) while my dog runs cutely on the beach, the tech certainly exists to spot content theft.
@@henryisdumb so, if I jumble the song I night get away with it. Ah, the perfect crime. The dog in the video passed away last year though. It gets so dusty in here whenever I play a video of her, it might be tricky.
great video!!! i rlly appreciate the subtitles, a lot of times smaller creators don’t caption their videos until they make enough money to hire someone to do it so thank you!!subscribed for that, brb watching all the rest of your videos hehe
I'm literally crocheting amigurumi while watching this so I loved the Planet June shoutout. This was such a well done video. You've got a new subscriber!
Dude I’m so surprised that you don’t have more subscribers, your wit and humor paired with your lovely video production is certainly one that’ll be extremely successful :)
This video's been in my recommended for a while and I'm grateful to have clicked it. Love your work, you're a funny bloke and I can appreciate the time and effort you must've put for this vid. Cheers
OMG, I use AI a lot almost daily, and I did not realize this at all. I'm sure I've seen some of these videos because I often will leave comments pointing out everything wrong LOL but the channel owner never seems to care.
The leveraging keys out of someone's pocket bit was freaking genius dude 😂 I hope you blow up man this was randomly gifted to me by the algorithm and I will be watching you now.
This is the true definition of the sin of sloth. Oversleeping for a couple hours or deciding not to go to the gym is nothing compared to not only getting money and attention from something other people put in effort making, but openly bragging about that like it's normal.
TH-cam has a "Do Not Recommend Channel" button if you click the little options thigy on a Recommend video. It helps TH-cam learn what videos are a waste of drive space
I got recommended this video and was super surprised it had this low of views this videos is very informative because it brings attention this people who are using AI to plagiarize other peoples works and claiming it’s a good work practice
once there's a huge number of people telling you how to make money, that method is probably spent up or will now have so much competition that it will be used up
I enjoyed the entirety of this 38 and a half minutes with you. What a brilliant video and what reasonable "conjecture" about the state of "how to get youtube rich quick" courses. Your passion (and the sweat you put into making this) show(s).
Love that i have absoluely no idea what youre talking about. Kind of comforting to know theres a whole shitscape preying on peoples bad taste out there that ive somehow stumbled backwards into being algorithmically insulated against.
This is why I like lesser known channels. This is the type of channel that the algorithm SHOULD push but I alway see the kind of channels you’re talking about. I can’t stand soulless AI channels.
Reassembling other people's content as collages has been going on for years in TH-cam before AI got popular. AI just makes it easier. The important part is not rupping it off too closely.
Thank you for this video. I’ve watched it 20 times already. As someone who values creativity, it’s so cathartic to hear a creator expose the awful practices of these scummy faceless automation TH-cam gurus who seek to kill originality. And you do this all in such an engaging fast-paced way that keeps my puny attention span happy. Actually, this video proves your thesis statement. Because there’s no AI or outsourcing in the world that could make a video with this much research, insight, rewatchability, personality and humor. I am basically your number 1 fan now. And I’m only saying that because when you inevitably hit 1-million subscribers (like you deserve), I want to say I knew that guy back when he was smol. You are fantastic. You were made for this, and I hope to see so much more from you.
those are unbelievably kind words, i'm super glad you enjoyed it!! yeah it was a bit of catharsis writing it if i'm honest, i'm glad to have finally met my number one fan that means a lot
Going with the surgeon analogy, love that he’s also saying “of course I can do surgery! You want proof?? I can show you FIFTY other successful surgeons.”
The reason the scammers will always get customers is because at the current trajectory of AI capabilities, there will in a few to several years be ways to produce much higher quality automated videos. So that stokes fear of missing out. But what the marks fail to realize is the skill set for leveraging such capabilities is more sophisticated than what it takes to produce quality content today, and it's sure as heck not held by the owners of high volume AI content channels today; they're actually paying -- not underpaying -- for a lot of difficult copyediting and video editing today, along with doing a lot more in writing and direction than copying other people's content (although they certainly are doing that too, which is what allows the scams to continue.)
you can always tell when someone hasn't watched a single bit of hasan's stream when they think he's a react streamer of this kind, cuz in reality he spends probably 95% of his streaming time doing political commentary.
I enjoyed this video even though I had no interest in TH-cam automation and didn’t know any of the people mentioned. But it’s just a testament to how trying to skip the work always turns out to be a bad idea in the end. I think me not having tons of disposable income has saved me in so many ways and made me more diligent in these creative spaces. Creation is magic, not automated. Thank you for sharing this. Keep it up!
Woaaaa woaaa woaa this was one hell of a video bro! You did some incredibly deep investigation and only 3k subscribers??? May the Algorithm bless you at fighting those AI slop in our recommendations 🙏
I watched your whole video - I agree with everything you presented (although, it was excruciatingly long and full of jokes didn’t make me laugh so much as you hoped). Yeah, man, making videos is hard. I am on YT for more than 10 years - I had 1 Million views on my first video 🤷♂️, because I always chose to deliver useful information to people. That was my strategy. I am not rich. I just payed the renting. ANYONE saying it’s easy is LYING.
Thank you for making this video. As an illustrator trying to understand if art is even a managable career these types of "AI easy money scams" are so degrading and kill any motivation. I watch these and think "If I can't make any money with my work and put all of this effort, how can these guys make up millions using chatgpt?" Maybe I'm in the wrong career, maybe I need to change Or maybe they're big time scammers, and nothing is truly achieved without hardwork and effort It's so easy to get caught up in this lie of easy content, easy money, when it's all stolen from other peoples hard work. Sorry for the long comment. Your video really gave a random artist girl from Portugal some hope
no need to apologise its completely fine, i know what you mean i was the exact same with feelings around my career of editing, but it's all got to be a lie they're all professing wealth from these schemes but none of it is real, otherwise why would they need to sell these courses and guides in the first place, at the end of the day true talent will always rise to the top so keep doing what you're doing, you can make it, i believe
@@henryisdumb Yeah, the supply and demand side of capitalism is overlooked. If it is easy and anyone can do it, then enough will that it is worthless. Plus logic often isn't applied. After all, if you could make easy money with minimum effort, why would you put in the effort to teach when you could just make a ton of money with no effort by doing instead? Why would you want to create more competition for yourself? That said, don't quite agree on the rising to the top bit. Plenty will fail. Bills must be payed, and if AI is filling the "entry slots", the lower priced gigs where people get their start, that deprives people of chances to hone their art. With a ton of extra volume out there, it'll also be harder to get noticed, harder to get some positive feedback which might just be the encouragement you need to continue developing your craft. This has always been the case, and adding a bunch of fodder to it, from AI which can mass produce stuff, and can quickly progress beyond the super janky stage, is going to make that worse. AI will lead to a lot of things going from "career path" to "hobby I hope maybe someday I can make into a career" for a chunk of people.
Commenting to drive this up the Algo, it deserves it, quality is waaaay higher than a sub 5k channel, you will get bigger my friend, you’re too good not to
@@henryisdumb honestly, the last 2 vids you’ve posted are exactly the kind I love, you’re good at it, as good as much much bigger channels I watch, I think its just a matter of time for you :)
holy shit I heard u have a voice crack at around 9:46 and realized you could voice either Clive Handfourth or Dr. Herbert Higginbotham from Little Big Planet 2 with EASE
It's wonderfully long and informative. And entertaining. (While being long.) I had a criticism as well but I won't mention it at this point. 😉 BTW, I love the expression "we're not off to a flying start" Thank you for that.
These people are just average modern grifters. I saw one keep popping up on my TikTok feed saying he was a big-time game developer making over £60,000 a month yet every time I pushed him for the names of the games he's made (because why wouldn't you share that if you're that successful?), he wouldn't share them at all. He asked me to "get on his podcast"...for some reason. I actually work in tech so I'm not going to do that and legitimise him.
Is this why youtube is starting to hammer ad blockers? Perhaps they realise its turning into a large amount of the very unpleasant stuff & want to grab what they can before it sinks.
If they were worried about it, they'd tweak the algorithm and/or change the rules of service to limit the impact. The reality is, they probably are all for AI generated stuff, provided it is legally safe for them to show. Endless "content" even more niche stuff, so people will let youtube play in the background while doing other things.
i love how when these guys describe their business model, the thing their describing is actually just plagiarism. No hiding it, or obfuscating it behind fancy words or nothin'. They litterally just describe the act of plagiarism. it would be funny if it werent so sad.
and it's wild how they all spin it like it's their brand new, state of the art idea, so even their idea of plagiarism they plagiarised from someone else, it's an ouroboros of stealing
@@henryisdumbthat is so true. I can't tell you how much stuff told me to go copy ideas from others on the business side of social media. Especially dropshipping. The first step is copying tbh.
What I don't understand is why TH-cam doesn't close the accounts of people that not only plagiarise, but brag about it. Is YT so desperate for ad income that they not only allow but encourage this mode of behavior?
Wow....things have really changed since YT started back in the late 2000s.
only if the fact that I once read Shakespeare and now I use the word "rose" is plagiarism!
@@WIDGI I could write an extended response to that, and to be frank I did, pointing out all the myriad ways that smart little post of yours is absolutely absurd, but why use 200 words when one will suffice?
lol.
this isn't a carjacking, i'm just leveraging OPC (other peoples cars)
hahahahahhahaah that is unreal, HOW DID I NOT THINK OF THAT, you are a master of comedy
bro invented his own acronym
@@gutznblxssxms A new TLA just dropped (Three Letter Abbreviation)
You down with OPC?
@@nitehawk86yeah you know me
To me, one of the most annoying parts about this AI oversaturation is that even if you realize and navigate away, you often can't do it quickly enough to avoid adding to their view count. Then the YT algorithm starts putting more AI in your feed because of the one interaction.
If you realise a long-form content is plagiarised/AI-assisted nonsense, click pause and report the closest option you think fits. Then, if you have time, go to the chanell, look trough upload history and metrics (chanell info) and see the patterns of titles/thumbnails if you can. You can report the chanell and videos hopefully breaching guidelines in bulk without watching them. Lately it's more important for dis/mis-information - like foreign agent (autocratic black-propaganda) chanells, but knowing what is harmful takes indepth knowledge of enemie's propaganda system, so (geo)political stuff is not for most people watching this. Nevertheless, the next time if you see a known, harmful chanell (or obvious AI nonsense clickbait) in recommendations, click three choice dot buttons and choose "Do not recommend the chanell".
Don't forget to downvote if that happens.
I saw a creator the other day (blond boy band type) who had 44million subs. He was a disgrace and his editing meant his voice just never stopped! Unbelievable what junk was coming out of his mouth and the images... Glad I don't remember his name. I clicked out of there as soon as I could but I should have down voted it. It was his humour that for some reason just disgusted me but nothing reportable.
@dannydetonator thanks for reminding me where the 'don't recommend' button is, I always forget. I'm a bit traumatized these days and see the recomended video column with, nervous impatience I guess. It's the influencer tactics that irritate me with their titles and cringe faces... They feel like a personal attack or like they're all scammers - which they're not all. This video had me wondering for a while, but I'm glad I stayed :)
@@wasd____ It still counts as engagement as far as the YT algorithm is concerned.
@@LetsGoChaseThatTrain Creators you downvote are less likely to get recommended to you in the future so you're less likely to keep giving them more engagement long-term.
Worse than that are the IG and YT shorts with reuploaded wholesome videos voiced by AI with an Amazon voucher and fake comments thanking them for making them save money... It is literally plaguing my feed, I'm so sick of them, it's nauseating at this point
and yet they always have like hundreds of thousands of views before they're taken down, wild
@@henryisdumb tiktok even promotes it as an ad on their platform
And there is no way to block channels.
Unless it works differently, you should be able stop those types of videos from appearing by clicking those 3 dots and selecting 'not interested' Might take a few times but I find eventually, you won't see the channels anymore.
@missamanda2703
For long content there is an option "do not recommend THE CHANELL". Seems to be working for me, at least after 2nd/3rd attempt. As i don't care about shorts, idk how to block them. YT will YT in the end, i suggest stop watching (unknown) shorts or especially commenting under undesirable content.
I instantly set "Do not recommend channel" for ALL channels with AI anything, especially voiceovers. AI is all about integrity-free dimmest, lowest-common-denominator theft, not surprising but very depressing. My faith in humanity just dropped another notch. At least people catch on and stop watching them eventually. They're just boring.
There are a variety of reasons people may use AI voice overs for legitimate reasons, it's not always about faster production or cheaping out. I for example use AI for voices on my other channel because I have mutism, but I still want to do video essays or expalin things with not just text on a screen. I don't use any AI for anything I can do myself, like research, writings scripts or editing. I don't even use stock footage, I record everything myself. Another area I use AI is when creating background music. Since I don't earn anything from youtube yet, I don't have anything I could invest into music licenses. There are free human-made songs available, but often these come with clauses and I don't have any copyright over them, so if someone else uses the same music in their video and then monetises it, they may still false-claim my videos, too. It's just the best cause to AI-generate original melodies and have them run quietly in the background as background noise. To get back to the voice thing, there are also people with simply not youtube-friendly voices, where they are hard to understand because they can't properly pronouce english words or have stuttering issues. AI voice over is just gonna be the better viewer experience here. It's not stealing from anyone either.
You on youtube complaining about integrity-free content... You must be new af here. That shit doesn't exist.
@@LucyKosaki I agree with AI voiceover, especially since you can find ones that use voices given with permission.
But about music... it feels iffy still. I know almost all music Neffex produces is free to use, so maybe try using theirs? They own the copyright so some random people shouldn't be able to fake dmca it I think?
Yeah, if I see genAI content used outside the context of it being explicitly labeled as genAI i never want to see that channel again
@@LucyKosaki im going to be real man, you like 1/1000000 of the ai users by volume
One problem with this type of content generation is the consumers don’t care that it’s stolen content, so there’s no disincentivizing this behavior without help from TH-cam, or some kind of legal support
exactly, and because most of the content they steal is normally stuff like "top ten" videos or like "wtf moments" you've got no leg to stand on, like who really owns the video if it's "top ten zelda moments" it's just like common knowledge you know so they can get away with it
Most wont even know
I think quite often consumers either don't know or don't notice, but it's all the same really. It's all just background filler anyways.
@@henryisdumb Or "shady habits" of long-dead celebrities.
it's not always not caring either, just because you or I are savy enough to see through it, know what's going on, doesn't mean the wider audience are. There's plenty of people that truly *believe* the pictures with that creepy smoothness, or the videos that are just slightly off, and they can't tell that the AI's pronunciation in the video is dead, listless, and the inflections are wrong.
"I don't want AI to create art, poetry and music. What I want is time, so I can create all of that myself".
Paraphrasing it a bit, but ever since I read this online, I've realised how simple minded we are being towards AI and all automated services that have recently come up.
Like, I want them to do the dishes, clean my house, do my grocery shopping, do my finances,... I don't want a robot to tell me in a video essay nor in a poem, how to relax or what to expect in the first weeks of uni!
EXACTLY, i saw that quote the other day, we want to use AI to do the boring stuff we don't want to do anymore, so we can have time to do the things we love
(edited to correct a spelling mistake)
AI and all automation services would be great if we had already evolved as a society and people didn't need the menial jobs to survive (like cleaners, cashiers and trash collectors). But unfortunately we don't live in a society were people's basic needs are met because of the exact same people that will be replacing us with AI because it will be cheaper for the companies they control so they can make even more money.
Because remember, the rich don't just want some money, they want *all* of the money.
So you're the type of person that would say Data from Star Trek shouldn't be allowed to have a cat or paint?
@@think-about-it-777 Data was a different kind of AI with a level of consciousness and nous that made him a person, not the kind of mindless generative "AI" that exists to churn out valueless garbage videos and images for clickbait.
AI generated content has been a very depressing thing for me to think about lately. While I think it can be helpful in some cases, most of the time it's just used to scam people. You can no longer trust online recipes, crochet patterns, courses, books, ect you can buy online, because the space is getting taken over by AI nonsense. I'm an artist and even just looking for image references on google has become hard, because most of it is generic, unusable trash. I've never heard of these guys before, but I hope they fade into obscurity soon. I hope we never have to see a TH-cam homepage that's just filled with mindless brainrot AI content.
i can't imagine what it's like as an artist it must be hell, and that's not even thinking about all the AI learning that is trained from legit stealing people's work without paying them, urgh
So it's bad when a computer looks up "image references" to create its AI garbage art, but when you do it then it's simply an artist at work? OK bro...
@@chownful there’s a difference as wide as the grand canyon between saying a computer simply “looks up image references” instead of what it actually does, which is frankenstein together people’s work without paying for it, dodging paywalls and hoovering up assets, so much so that so many ai image generators returned results with the “getty images” watermark underneath.
opposed to an idiot like me simply being bad at art but taking inspiration from things they’ve witnessed in life
@@chownful there is a monumental difference between taking inspiration from and stealing
if i bought the same TV as you because i thought it was cool that would be alright, but if i went into your house and took your TV when you weren’t around, without telling you and without paying for it that’s a slightly different story
@@chownful Braindead take
If I’m not getting the AI generated rubbish then I’m getting the guru videos urging me to create more of it. The ‘dead internet’ prophecy is coming true faster than I expected.
In my opinion, copy and pasting to an AI application is straight up pure plagiarism. I prefer to handtype my own words into my videos. I don't like stealing from other TH-camrs. I don't care how big or how small they are. I tend to work hard on making my content. And If I do use pictures of other Tubers' videos, I'll gladly give credit.
exactly, that's the thing i find the most insane about it, how they feel it's completely ok to steal things and act like they're true geniuses for doing so
Worse than that - the AI tools themselves were made by plagiarising peoples work. So it is plagiarism all the way down.
Let’s all take the transcript of this video and do the thing!
@Jack-px8lf The AI models were created using stolen texts as training, so regardless it is still stealing. You know how you get better at writing? Practice. If you use AI all the time you'll never get better at it.
Also, AI very often makes up things in their texts and even in the "sources" that can very well be AI generated themselves. The more people use AI for things the less non-Ai content will be around for the AI to reference and the worse it will be.
Wait till you find out how AI generates stuff... lol.
"Leveraged" is a hell of a euphemism. That interviewer for Omari comes off as genuinely fighting back disgust when he has to ask this cocky confident "entrepreneur" whether he has slaves. You're seeing someone realising what "passive income" means in real time there. The gross part is that people like Omari think everyone else envies them.
i thought that too when watching the full pod, but later on he seems to be won over by omari and instantly starts talking down on how bad his thumbnail artist and editor is and how he shouldn't have to pay them alot because it's an "easy job"
@@henryisdumb - Ah, gross. I suppose it was too much to hope for a bit of self-awareness in that space.
When I hear 'leverage' I instantly picture a shifty dude with a prybar busting a lock.
@@wobblyboost REAL. it sounds so shady
@@wobblyboostleverage is definitely a snakeoil buzzword.
It’s hard to stand out as creatives in a landscape filled with automation and lazy content! Such an eye opener to a channels I’d never heard of and the evil they are getting away with!
Great video!
that's why i've been in a sheer pit of depression for the past two months hahah
I disagree. I think ai automated content is very cookie cutter and if anything makes original content stand out
If it was hard before, it's harder now due to the sheer number of videos uploaded by these "ai creators" daily, but like ghostcat said, anything original and human will definitely get more merit if it manages to reach the audience 😅
Edit : i can't spell
I'm actually looking forward to being swamped with ai created reading material. Then I can publish my book.
A Book
by a Human
😏
Sounds like a skill issue if you're having issues being more creative than AI.
I hired a lawyer to help me with a car accident. Near the end, I swear they felt like I was a bother. When I was waiting for my money, they hired a family member and she asked me to review them BEFORE we were done. I left a 2 star review. My lawyer flailed and asked the stars to be changed as he handed my money over and went back on his words. When we started the hiring, he said “I take 1/3 pain and suffering.” When he cut the check, he took 1/3 everything and tried to take more for hospital bills ALL READY PAID. After I changed the stars, he tossed me $4k. Still not happy I was strong armed into changing a google review, but I would never use him again, either. AI will take that 4 star and run with it, ignoring my now reviews.
whaaaat that’s insane, how are people allowed to get away with that
Is there something legally binding you to not changing the review back?
Can't wait until I'm choking on a pastrami sandwich and having to learn the Heimlich Maneuver in a top 10 choking video narrated by an AI Elon Musk.
and then you find out the instructions it's giving you are actually the lyrics to the Cha Cha Slide
**ChatGPT**
To perform the Heimlich Maneuver (abdominal thrusts) on a choking person, follow these steps:
For a conscious adult or child:
Assess the situation:
Ask the person if they are choking. If they can't speak, cough, or breathe, act quickly.
Position yourself:
Stand behind the person.
Wrap your arms around their waist.
Make a fist:
Place your fist just above the person’s navel (belly button) and below the rib cage.
Perform abdominal thrusts:
Grasp your fist with your other hand.
Give quick, upward thrusts into the abdomen. Use enough force to dislodge the object blocking the airway.
Repeat until the object is expelled:
Continue thrusts until the person can breathe, cough, or the object is forced out.
For a pregnant or obese person:
Perform chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts.
Place your fist at the center of the breastbone (sternum) and follow the same procedure.
For an unconscious person:
Call emergency services (if not done yet).
Lay the person on their back.
Begin CPR (chest compressions), as this can also help dislodge the object.
For an infant under 1 year:
Instead of abdominal thrusts, use back blows and chest compressions.
Seek medical attention after the procedure, even if the person seems fine, to ensure no internal injuries.
What kind of bread? Rye?
This is why so many people like the Margaritaville/Rainforest cafe videos. These can't be easily made with AI. It takes actual effort lol
honestly one of the most fun and entertaining videos I have ever watched!!! I'm shocked the algorithm hasn't done its thing
underrated as heck channel
wow that's such high praise, thank you so much hahah
People are ruining every corner of the internet with crappy A.I. spam. Can't stand it, I'm tempted to cancel TH-cam premium.
why even have yt premium at all?
@@quinintheclouds i got addicted to the music platform and they made the ads experience on actual youtube atrocious. I would prefer to watch mugiwara goof talk about one piece ad free. Them videos is lowkey long. Also i kinda hate how these platforms be pushing subscriptions on something that improves my life, which i am refering to music so i may dumb my subscription down for the music platform only. If they ain't messed up my system i had going for google music i would not have been shuttled over to youtube music.
@@justmika6964 gotcha... you know if you use firefox adblock actually works, since it isn't owned by google like chrome and youtube
@@justmika6964 hmmm looks like yt deleted my comment lol, must be a certain word I used it doesn't like people knowing about :P Basically I said you can get firefox instead of chrome, since google doesn't own it, and then your... how do I word this without yt getting mad? Firefox's ADditional B LOCKer works
@@justmika6964 gdi yt deleted that too.... basically get firefox cause google doesn't own it so add sunblock works (minus the "sun" ...i hope you can glean what I'm trying to convey lol)
I like to imagine they think the video editors are AI bots and thats how they justify grossly underpaying them.
that has to be the only justification, or it's just out of sight out of mind so it's not their problem to think about
If grifters advertise some new fancy moneymaking "hack" to people, and tell them to buy their course or whatever, it means the hack has already been exploited to its max so it doesnt work anymore. Of course the people buying the courses lost a lot of money. And we're stuck with an overflow of ai crap from people who keep doing it and arent making the dollars they were promised, but keep hoping for that one big payout
These people talk about editing their own videos like it's impossible. It's like they don't know how to tie their own shoes, but when you try teaching them, they tell you you're crazy because they've only seen self-tying Nikes like Back to the Future.
"Grandma, when it's ready, can you just shove it in my mouth?"
It's because they're selfish, entitled brats who want all the glory and profit of making content with none of the labor.
The AI bubble is the same as the VR craze. Everyone is so obsessed with shoving it in prodiucts without thinking if they should.
It also reminds me of the Etsy exodus over drop shipping. Removing the human elemenet over inherrantly human products.
exactly, it's more of a thing of capitalising on it whilst it's a hot topic before inevitably binning it off when someone gets convicted for something
It's more akin to the _smart_ craze. Put BT and inter net connectivity in things that *do not* need to connect. And create various security holes along the way as devices get bricked due to company bankrupcy.
At the risk of sounding like an AI who copied and regurgitated this comments section: this is an incredible video and your channel deserves so much more attention! The editing, the script, the quality, the humor, the insight, just **chef's kiss** Now that's content! Watched the whole thing and subscribed happily :D Best of luck and thanks for shining a light on this!! AI is a scary tool when used for art, writing, music, voice acting, and all sorts of things that frankenstein real people's creativity into digestible commodity so as not to pay the people whose talents and efforts are dedicated to these jobs
hmmmm that’s exactly what an AI would say to throw me off the scent
truly thank you though that means a lot!
@@henryisdumb oh no, you caught me! 😆
the algoritm doesn't want this to be seen ig, cause its an great video. I watch way more populair videos that are way worse then this masterpiece
hahah genuinely very kind of you to say that, if it ever blows up in views i'll come back to this comment
4 months later this finally showed up at my front page 😂
the algorithm has finally accepted.
The algorithm was 4 months late
the algorithm blessed this video today!
This is a phenomenally good video
oh my word that's incredibly kind of you to say, i'm absolutely whacking that on my cv hahah
Hello, there!
great video man. cannot fathom how these guys feel proud of the stuff they produce
thanks so much, yeah it drove me absolutely mental, and they charge for it??
They dont, but they arent doing it for anything other than money, so it doesnt matter
they feel proud the same way. bank robbers feel proud when they rob a bank and don't get caught.
I'm usually not a pessimist, but the future of the internet looks so bleak the more I think about AI. Millions of faceless, mindless bots stealing countless works of real human art, grinding it all up, and churning out an endless stream of amalgamated dreck for people to gawk at for a few minutes before moving on to the next distraction on their feed, as insubstantial and consumable as potato chips. And not just bots creating content, but also bots that write reviews, reply to those reviews, share links, like and subscribe, comment, buy, sell... it's all just a bunch of software programs circle-jerking each other! When it's going to end? When is something going to give?
Better quality than some bigger channels I've seen! I really hate these soulless ai channels
that’s incredibly kind of you to say that means a lot
I was blown away at the end of your video when you said "400 subscribers". Video was top notch, I watched all the way through. Seems you have a lot more subscribers now, including me! Keep it up my man.
thanks so much! yeah it's wild how much it's kicked on out of nowhere hahah
Honestly, David Omari absolutely owns the title of TH-cam millionaire. Because just like regular millionaires, he’s just grifting off of the hard work of other people and posturing like he’s some sort of self made genius.
There is an old saying that you can't con an honest man. Every single one of these people who "lost money" with this course were all willing to follow the advice of "borrowing" other people's content to make their own videos.
it’s your time. the algorithm has chosen you.
I think that’s partially true, but most of it is because his video is actually good, well edited, he’s got skits, he had a good title and thumbnail, etc.. The algorithm of course is the supreme leader, but those other things factor in as well. TLDR dude made good video.
True.
@@FerociousPancake888Yes, this...and clearly took a lot of time to create. Some of the things he brought up would take a very long time to research alone. Like deep diving into who was behind the Trust Pilot comments and putting all that together. Definitely appreciate the effort and it did make a good video.
As a child you get trained that you have to perform on a time limit. In sports and school. For 20 years you only get rewards when you perform within the time limit.
And then you become an adult. Now when someone comes to you with a reward with a time limit you have to walk away because it is a 99% for sure scam.
AIs being lobotomized via censorship also adds to the uncanny tone of the text.
The more sensitive subjects are especially difficult to read.
Wow this video is amazing, the editing is just incredible and 38 minutes long you must have worked really hard on this.
that means a lot! i did get very sick of looking at my own face for that amount of time
@@henryisdumb I didnt get sick of it, youre funny man. good job, glad i found you
@@Miellatherebel hahah thankyou, i'm glad someone finds me funny other than me
I thought this was a big channel's video. The quality is really good, I hope this blows up
i appreciate that, i'm glad you enjoyed me having a breakdown
oh my goddd. been so creatively stumped and I’ve seen this problem manifest down to guitar tabs being incorrectly AI generated…. this was a very insightful video. I want to make one with my own thoughts soon. dark time to be a creative.😢 new subscriber sir very good work!!!
excuse me GUITAR TABS, no way hahahahah, if you make a video on that i'll definitely watch it i'm so intrigued now
i am also very interested to learn about AI generated _GUITAR TABS_ lol
OKAY I’ve since tried to validate my suspicion, but I can’t prove it… OK so ultimate guitar tabs has been everyone’s primary source for years. The past year more and more in the past six months I’ve noticed that more and more music has been taken off of there, like if you’re looking for an issues tab it might say sorry this artist doesn’t want This here! at the same time; all these ‘play along while the AI correct you pay monthly’ services are poppin up and like the only places to find tabs now and lot of them are dog sh**!!!., I tried free trial and tried to learn the beers by the front bottoms, could remember three out of four of the cords that I needed from the ultimate version, none of which appeared in the stupid app; so dumb . I’m pretty confident it’s a symptom of the same issue, but who knows
@@KineticKell that's so unbelievably strange, i'm glad it's not just me that falls down AI related rabbit holes every now and again, i'm even in another one at the moment as the video i'm working on next is about spotify and oh my word it's hellish
@@henryisdumb SOUNDS LIKE A NIGHTMARE and ya only way to combat my AI panic is to CReate🕺looking forward to your next video!
Well-researched, well-presented, and well-debated. Found you through the algorithm, Henry! Really enjoyed your dissection of the "business model" so many people are trying to "leverage."
There's nothing more ethical about a "small, family-run" business. Individual artisans editing these videos? That's labor. Hiring a 15 year-old in a small town to make you 50k a year in profit while you and your wife take a road trip out to your fifth property? That's exploitation.
If someone's selling you shovels, it means they've determined that the shovels are worth more than the gold those shovels might dig up.
wow, that's mentally deep, oh my god and shovels dig deep holes it's all coming full circle
This is a great deep dive into some of the ridiculous YT nonsense out there - it's so disheartening to watch YT devolve into just a trash heap of AI generated content because of dudes like this, and the real creators get drowned out. I really like your videos and funny take on things, happily subscribed! :)
that means a lot, it truly rattled my brain looking into this
I despise these people not just because plagiarism is awful but also it just FLOODS youtube with so much empty drivel, and to think someone is profiteering off that.. angery
not sure the surgery example is the best example given that HIPPA makes it illegal to say who was given heart surgery even if the doctor is legit
I smell underrated
He smells?
@@stellviahohenheim yes, he reeks of future success
@@stellviahohenheimthe postenchial is massive
thank you for all discussing my scent, that is definitely not a weird sentence to say out loud
Honestly thought you had at least 2 million followers with how classy and clean the editing is. Truly spectacular content mate I’m very inspired
wow, thanks! good luck with the stuff you'll end up making too, i'm sure it'll be great
ngl if you didn't mention anything about your subscriber count i never would have looked and noticed how comparitively small your channel is?? idk why but i kept getting your vids recommended and watched some and genuenly thought your channel is much bigger.
keep up the great work dude
hahah i'm sorry i'm popping up on your recommended alot, thankyou for the kind words though
@@henryisdumb nahhh dude i enjoy your content so it was good that youtube kept recommending me your stuff. found someone new i enjoy watching!
You weren’t the only one lol
The fact you only have 2k subs is criminal, this video is so high quality. The algorithm is a poopyhead
hahahah thanks for the kind words, it's being less of a poopyhead now though, i only had 700 subs this time last week
Hi! I worked in the CG team that made "Frozen Land" shown at 8:19 and wanted to set the record straight on that particular film: That title and Frozen knockoff cover art was done by the distributor, post cinema release, without consent of the studio or the director. (Disney sued them, rightfully.)
The film was released in theaters as, and is actually called, "The Legend Of Sarila". Google it for the real poster art. (It's an inuit tale and has zero in common with Frozen other than both their worlds are cold, lol.)
You know what else? It's the first ever Canadian full length animated feature film!
Now if only that fun fact weren't so overshadowed by the unscrupulous distributor ordering someone to copy the Frozen font to sell more copies to confused grandmas... 😵
(ps: nice videoessay, sir.)
well now i feel like a complete ass hahahh, thankyou so much for clarifying that, that is both an incredible achievement and also an insanely infuriating move from the distributor
@@henryisdumbHaha, no hard feelings. ❤
Nobody knows the movie cause it didn't do very well in cinemas. The story is a bit dull and the only famous cast was Christopher Plummer for the villain. 🤷♂️ That said, I still enjoyed doing 3D character rigging for it and the creator was nice enough to do a making-of for the DVD extras and I'm featured in it along with much of the 3D team, hehe.
@@AlanFregtman wow that’s insanely cool ahahahah, bet it looks great on the imdb page though
I love the 400 subscriber joke at the end of the video. Because in 4 months you've managed to do what I haven't in eight years. Guess I should get better at content making LOL. Great video
it's all completely randomly happened in the course of one week, this time seven days ago i had 700 subs still no idea how or why it's happened
the only thing i've done in that time was change the title and the thumbnail and uploaded one incredibly long video that just supercharged it as youtube's all about watch time and viewing sessions at the moment, that was about it
@@henryisdumb to be fair, it is a really good video
@@redstoneactive6589 you're very kind to say, thank you
The Seinfeld impression won my subscription.
A joke so old reminded me that you are human and deserve this sub more than any AI Automated channel live right now.
hahahahahahah i've finally passed the turing test
Great video!
Must have taken a lot of time to edit and research this
it all got out of hand very fast, i only started looking into it because i was hella bored one evening hahah
@@henryisdumbGuess boredom is great at times
This kind of stuff is so infuriating to REAL TH-camrs with REAL content building REAL communities!
Very well put together video! I loved the pacing and the small slices of humor mixed between the serious points.
Always love it when TH-cam puts me on smaller creators with a fresh perspective and style.
that's super kind of you to acknowledge that, not many people have referenced that so it means a lot, thank you
You really deserve recognition for the hard work you put into your content.
This video was awesome. It's not just extremely informative, but entertaining too.
Crazy to think you only had 400 subscribers when making it, your passion for the topic, script writing and creating videos really shows.
Keep up the great work ❤
i really appreciate that, it truly means a lot to hear
@@henryisdumb your welcome. I love watching talented up and coming creators, it's like finding a precious gem thats value is about too increase massively.
It's hard to stand out on a platform with so many putting out content, but its nice to see when the algorithm notices and suggests a gem such as yourself.
I have a feeling this TH-cam stuff is going to work out for you! 😉
I wish there was a "Recommend" Button for this video. The whole A.I. thing is basically a scam, and big TH-cam Channels like VidIQ know this.
The thing I hate the most about this is that everyone loves to promote this, but they fail to show their own results. Let me ask you, the person that's reading this when you click on these "How to create an AI Automation Channel" videos, how many of them actually show you the end results? How many of them tell you that it's "free" but fail to mention that it's free for a limited time until you HAVE to pay to use more of the AI tools service. How many of them actually show you the channel being monetized and making money? Not many of them. I've seen a lot of these videos from big channels where they all both show you and tell you the same thing which are:
-Show you a channel that's already monetized and is receiving cash but blur out the channel so you don't know what that channel name is.
-Use other big channels to support their claim on how using AI can get you thousands of dollars.
-Tell you to pick your niche and all that other crap on how to start up a TH-cam Channel.
-Use an AI tool that they're promoting and show you how "easy" it is.
-Disregard the fact that the AI tool is "free" but will eventually be a pay-to-play thing.
-Upload the AI video and end the video with telling you how easy it is.
-Oh and don't forget to like and subscribe
Hell, it's even gotten up to the point where I'm seeing ads on social media about this. And the worst part about it is that they'll use a channel that doesn't use AI and state that they do use it. This lie right here gives them an example to use in their video, and Invideo.io is a prime example of using this tactic to get viewers to use their product.
Extremely interesting. Thank you for the time, effort & obvious care you put into this.
no need to thank me! i'm glad you found it interesting!
this is great, educational content. everybody should know.
let's crush plagiarism & AI exploitation.
it truly baffles me how people say this stuff is the future
heavily respect you for having actual captions, accessibility king
I some jackass can copyright strike me for playing 5 seconds of Yackity Sacks (Benny Hill theme) while my dog runs cutely on the beach, the tech certainly exists to spot content theft.
you'd like to think so, but they skirt around it by jumbling every word up, i guess it's hard to have ownership over the structure of a sentence
@@henryisdumb so, if I jumble the song I night get away with it. Ah, the perfect crime. The dog in the video passed away last year though. It gets so dusty in here whenever I play a video of her, it might be tricky.
Thanks for shedding light on this.
no worries, i feel like no one really talks about how horrific it is
great video!!! i rlly appreciate the subtitles, a lot of times smaller creators don’t caption their videos until they make enough money to hire someone to do it so thank you!!subscribed for that, brb watching all the rest of your videos hehe
no worries! i always try to get them done, the longer ones it does take a while though hahah
I'm literally crocheting amigurumi while watching this so I loved the Planet June shoutout. This was such a well done video. You've got a new subscriber!
Dude I’m so surprised that you don’t have more subscribers, your wit and humor paired with your lovely video production is certainly one that’ll be extremely successful :)
18:54 as an avid crocheter, you got it right. Trust me, there’s been far more insidious butchering of the craft I love lol.
that means a lot to hear hahah it stressed me out saying it
This video's been in my recommended for a while and I'm grateful to have clicked it. Love your work, you're a funny bloke and I can appreciate the time and effort you must've put for this vid. Cheers
hahah sorry my big head's been in your recommended so much, i'm glad you enjoyed it though it means a lot
OMG, I use AI a lot almost daily, and I did not realize this at all. I'm sure I've seen some of these videos because I often will leave comments pointing out everything wrong LOL but the channel owner never seems to care.
The leveraging keys out of someone's pocket bit was freaking genius dude 😂 I hope you blow up man this was randomly gifted to me by the algorithm and I will be watching you now.
This is the true definition of the sin of sloth. Oversleeping for a couple hours or deciding not to go to the gym is nothing compared to not only getting money and attention from something other people put in effort making, but openly bragging about that like it's normal.
TH-cam has a "Do Not Recommend Channel" button if you click the little options thigy on a Recommend video. It helps TH-cam learn what videos are a waste of drive space
I got recommended this video and was super surprised it had this low of views this videos is very informative because it brings attention this people who are using AI to plagiarize other peoples works and claiming it’s a good work practice
thank you! you should’ve seen my research notes for this video it was a true nightmare
This channel should be way more popular. I hope you reach 1k subs soon!😊
wow thank-you! that is very kind of you to say
once there's a huge number of people telling you how to make money, that method is probably spent up or will now have so much competition that it will be used up
I enjoyed the entirety of this 38 and a half minutes with you. What a brilliant video and what reasonable "conjecture" about the state of "how to get youtube rich quick" courses. Your passion (and the sweat you put into making this) show(s).
wow thanks, i'm glad you enjoyed it!
All this does is further emphasize the dangers of the dead internet theory.
Love that i have absoluely no idea what youre talking about. Kind of comforting to know theres a whole shitscape preying on peoples bad taste out there that ive somehow stumbled backwards into being algorithmically insulated against.
This is why I like lesser known channels. This is the type of channel that the algorithm SHOULD push but I alway see the kind of channels you’re talking about. I can’t stand soulless AI channels.
that's genuinely very kind of you to say, yeah having to actually watch these channels broke me hahah
@@henryisdumb I can begin to imagine the brain rot and boredom from watching all those AI channels
First time seeing your videos and you remind me of a combination of Dan & Phil in your delivery 😭
Great video overall!
hahahah i think that's just the standard awkward british delivery, thank you anyway that's super kind of you
So this is just... plagarism? I can't see what else it could be 😅
yep hahahha pure and simple
im so glad the algorithm gods blessed me with your channel. and its not the slop it usually shows me. 10/10 brother i love you
hahahah that's incredibly kind of you to say, thankyou
Reassembling other people's content as collages has been going on for years in TH-cam before AI got popular. AI just makes it easier. The important part is not rupping it off too closely.
You genuinely deserve more subscribers based on this video alone. Great content that I'm about 95% sure wasn't made with chatgpt
only 95%, wow i was expecting more, that's impressive
@henryisdumb that ai is getting out of hand, never know 🤣
I've been watching all your videos lately, good stuff man. Keep it up!
This has made the shorts feed unusable for me.
Thank you for this video. I’ve watched it 20 times already. As someone who values creativity, it’s so cathartic to hear a creator expose the awful practices of these scummy faceless automation TH-cam gurus who seek to kill originality. And you do this all in such an engaging fast-paced way that keeps my puny attention span happy.
Actually, this video proves your thesis statement. Because there’s no AI or outsourcing in the world that could make a video with this much research, insight, rewatchability, personality and humor.
I am basically your number 1 fan now. And I’m only saying that because when you inevitably hit 1-million subscribers (like you deserve), I want to say I knew that guy back when he was smol. You are fantastic. You were made for this, and I hope to see so much more from you.
those are unbelievably kind words, i'm super glad you enjoyed it!! yeah it was a bit of catharsis writing it if i'm honest, i'm glad to have finally met my number one fan that means a lot
Here before you blow up
thankyou, but that absolutely sounds like a threat the joker would make
@@henryisdumb you wanna know how I got these scars? Also not dumb veh smart💗
Going with the surgeon analogy, love that he’s also saying “of course I can do surgery! You want proof?? I can show you FIFTY other successful surgeons.”
stephen fry?
The reason the scammers will always get customers is because at the current trajectory of AI capabilities, there will in a few to several years be ways to produce much higher quality automated videos. So that stokes fear of missing out. But what the marks fail to realize is the skill set for leveraging such capabilities is more sophisticated than what it takes to produce quality content today, and it's sure as heck not held by the owners of high volume AI content channels today; they're actually paying -- not underpaying -- for a lot of difficult copyediting and video editing today, along with doing a lot more in writing and direction than copying other people's content (although they certainly are doing that too, which is what allows the scams to continue.)
you can always tell when someone hasn't watched a single bit of hasan's stream when they think he's a react streamer of this kind, cuz in reality he spends probably 95% of his streaming time doing political commentary.
(just to say i did make this four months ago when him and most streamers were getting flack for being react streamers)
honestly crazy to me that you have 3.5K subs and not 3.5 million. Quality video mate
I enjoyed this video even though I had no interest in TH-cam automation and didn’t know any of the people mentioned. But it’s just a testament to how trying to skip the work always turns out to be a bad idea in the end. I think me not having tons of disposable income has saved me in so many ways and made me more diligent in these creative spaces. Creation is magic, not automated. Thank you for sharing this. Keep it up!
First but not last time viewer! You were so engaging, that I was surprised when it ended to see it was almost 40 minutes long. Subbed.
Woaaaa woaaa woaa this was one hell of a video bro! You did some incredibly deep investigation and only 3k subscribers??? May the Algorithm bless you at fighting those AI slop in our recommendations 🙏
why thankyou, that means a lot!
I watched your whole video - I agree with everything you presented (although, it was excruciatingly long and full of jokes didn’t make me laugh so much as you hoped). Yeah, man, making videos is hard. I am on YT for more than 10 years - I had 1 Million views on my first video 🤷♂️, because I always chose to deliver useful information to people. That was my strategy. I am not rich. I just payed the renting. ANYONE saying it’s easy is LYING.
Thank you for making this video. As an illustrator trying to understand if art is even a managable career these types of "AI easy money scams" are so degrading and kill any motivation.
I watch these and think "If I can't make any money with my work and put all of this effort, how can these guys make up millions using chatgpt?"
Maybe I'm in the wrong career, maybe I need to change
Or maybe they're big time scammers, and nothing is truly achieved without hardwork and effort
It's so easy to get caught up in this lie of easy content, easy money, when it's all stolen from other peoples hard work.
Sorry for the long comment. Your video really gave a random artist girl from Portugal some hope
no need to apologise its completely fine, i know what you mean i was the exact same with feelings around my career of editing, but it's all got to be a lie
they're all professing wealth from these schemes but none of it is real, otherwise why would they need to sell these courses and guides in the first place, at the end of the day true talent will always rise to the top so keep doing what you're doing, you can make it, i believe
@@henryisdumb Yeah, the supply and demand side of capitalism is overlooked. If it is easy and anyone can do it, then enough will that it is worthless. Plus logic often isn't applied. After all, if you could make easy money with minimum effort, why would you put in the effort to teach when you could just make a ton of money with no effort by doing instead? Why would you want to create more competition for yourself?
That said, don't quite agree on the rising to the top bit. Plenty will fail. Bills must be payed, and if AI is filling the "entry slots", the lower priced gigs where people get their start, that deprives people of chances to hone their art. With a ton of extra volume out there, it'll also be harder to get noticed, harder to get some positive feedback which might just be the encouragement you need to continue developing your craft. This has always been the case, and adding a bunch of fodder to it, from AI which can mass produce stuff, and can quickly progress beyond the super janky stage, is going to make that worse. AI will lead to a lot of things going from "career path" to "hobby I hope maybe someday I can make into a career" for a chunk of people.
Commenting to drive this up the Algo, it deserves it, quality is waaaay higher than a sub 5k channel, you will get bigger my friend, you’re too good not to
thanks man that’s super kind of you to say
@@henryisdumb honestly, the last 2 vids you’ve posted are exactly the kind I love, you’re good at it, as good as much much bigger channels I watch, I think its just a matter of time for you :)
This was a great video, on to subscribe and watch the entirety of your channel. It really shows that you put thought and time into making it.
hahahh thankyou, hopefully the rest didn't let you down
I’m only a few minutes in, and the fact you only have 7k subscribers feels criminal. You deserve WAAAAY more.
holy shit I heard u have a voice crack at around 9:46 and realized you could voice either Clive Handfourth or Dr. Herbert Higginbotham from Little Big Planet 2 with EASE
It's wonderfully long and informative. And entertaining. (While being long.) I had a criticism as well but I won't mention it at this point. 😉 BTW, I love the expression "we're not off to a flying start" Thank you for that.
These people are just average modern grifters. I saw one keep popping up on my TikTok feed saying he was a big-time game developer making over £60,000 a month yet every time I pushed him for the names of the games he's made (because why wouldn't you share that if you're that successful?), he wouldn't share them at all. He asked me to "get on his podcast"...for some reason. I actually work in tech so I'm not going to do that and legitimise him.
Is this why youtube is starting to hammer ad blockers? Perhaps they realise its turning into a large amount of the very unpleasant stuff & want to grab what they can before it sinks.
If they were worried about it, they'd tweak the algorithm and/or change the rules of service to limit the impact. The reality is, they probably are all for AI generated stuff, provided it is legally safe for them to show. Endless "content" even more niche stuff, so people will let youtube play in the background while doing other things.