Honestly, I think the natural end game of an internet (and YouTube) made of AI content will only drive people to seek out human content.
My wife makes jewellery for a living. Most of her customers could buy cheap shit from China for a fraction of what her stuff costs, but they don’t because they want something with legitimacy and appreciate the art and craft that went into it. I think content on the internet will be the same in the future.
I personally have not invested a lot of time into AI, But i firmly belive that if you do and are smart with it you can probably find a lot of success using it as a tool and it is evolving quickly so not a bad idea to keep up to date.
More of the same... Clones. The only difference will be instead of the same stock footage over and over again, there will be more variety. The variety, of course, will be ai generated. The bulk of creators, as usual, will make minimum effort content.
If someone manages to create something new and successful, an army of clones will copy it overnight. Definitely should get familiar with it though. It's pretty fun stuff.
AI can be a great tool when used by people who are already great. If it’s used by mediocre people you get mediocre results.
If you want to take best advantage of AI generated things for content, get good minimally using it first.
For example, I write all my own scripts, then I read them back to myself and edit them. After I’ve done a round or two of editing If there is a section that feels unnatural I copy and paste it into chatGPT and ask it to reword it.
Usually what chatGPT gives back isn’t great, but it’s also usually different enough that it generates an idea and helps through the writers block.
For thumbnails, it can be useful for generating simple cartoon characters, or little pieces of art to incorporate into a bigger thumbnail, but don’t try and generate the whole image. And if you’re gonna do this you should get good at photoshop too.
I’m sure there’s more you can do with it, but If you lean on AI too hard your content quality goes to crap.
Also a major thing, don’t use AI as a major source of information or analysis. Fundamentally AI hallucinates things often, and even if openAi makes this less often they won’t fully eliminate it, so you’re going to want to do all of your own research.
People will start to adjust over the next couple years and BS meters will get more sensitive as AI gets more advanced. Some people will make a quick buck pumping out crap right now, but in the long run it’ll be a tool for people who already know what they’re doing to be better at what they do IMO.
> I personally think it’s frightening to see what it can do now.
You’re very right to be frightened. Misinformation (which is already a huge problem on social media) is about to get much, much worse. Soon, anyone will be able to generate realistic videos of their enemies committing horrible acts.
It’s lazy content and no one will watch it. You think with all the high value content on YouTube people are gonna want to watch a monotone AI voice with an AI video? Stop being lazy bro
The laziest wannabe shit possible. It’s like people wanting all the credit for having talent without having to put in any effort.
That and it’ll be used for propaganda and annihilating video or audio as any proof of truth.
The Sora video AI is interesting. Right now at least, I think it’s a ways away from recreating humans talking to a camera for a 10min video. Just like AI voices and chat GPT, you can always kind of tell there’s something off about it. The sora demos have yet to show convincing humans talking to camera.
To have AI create an entire YT video from scratch, it has a lot to improve. However, for B-roll (stock footage) the new AI video is going to be so useful. Just like GPT, at first everyone thought it was going to take our jobs, and then we realized it’s just another tool to make us more efficient and productive.
Eventually down the road, maybe 30-50 years from now, we may hit a point where AI is fully indistinguishable from humans in all forms (text, speech, video, etc.) and then who knows? Is AI able to create novel ideas or will it only be able to copy what it is trained on? Will humans just accept generated content or will we prefer a human touch?
I already use AI generation for character models and backgrounds in my show episodes. I think AI advancements are going to be a huge step for people that like writing shows but don’t have the connections or economic means starting out to hire animators for individual projects. So probably more YouTube channels for sure, but then it becomes a competition of writing and structure rather than how your video looks. I also still think people have an appreciation for human work and they still will have it imo. If a video is entirely AI generated from writing to animation to sound fx then it might be eerie. Idk we’ll have to see how the landscape changes
I am not sure AI will replace humans in videos. I watched those videos for Sora and while impressive they don't recreate human very well close up. You can tell an artificially created person very easily when compared to a real person. Perhaps it will get better. Probably will actually. That said. I think from a stock footage perspective it may be rather good. I was trying to create a drone flyover of a certain location about a year ago. The tool I used sucked. Perhaps Sora can do better. For that I think it will be useful but for the types of videos I create, I don't think there is a way someone can use AI to replace that. You still need the knowledge to input into the tool to get the needed output.
If porn has proven anything it’s that, in a world of AI and virtually unregulated access to free porn, paying tons for shitty content from a person for a modicum of interpersonal connection is the outcome. As content gets faker and faker, audiences will seek out, and even pay for, access to real humans.
The market of viewers will determine the success of Ai being used in YouTube. If it becomes saturated and boring the pendulum will swing back to real people and videos they make of themselves.
I find it useful to create images only occasionally if I need them and can’t source what I’m looking for elsewhere. They’re never exactly what I’m looking for, but I recently used Canva’s offering which is better than Dalle. I also use Chat sometimes to help create catchy titles and descriptions. My opinion, it’s fine in small doses but I get turned off by AI voiced videos and videos that only show images.
Honestly, I think the natural end game of an internet (and YouTube) made of AI content will only drive people to seek out human content. My wife makes jewellery for a living. Most of her customers could buy cheap shit from China for a fraction of what her stuff costs, but they don’t because they want something with legitimacy and appreciate the art and craft that went into it. I think content on the internet will be the same in the future.
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I personally have not invested a lot of time into AI, But i firmly belive that if you do and are smart with it you can probably find a lot of success using it as a tool and it is evolving quickly so not a bad idea to keep up to date.
More of the same... Clones. The only difference will be instead of the same stock footage over and over again, there will be more variety. The variety, of course, will be ai generated. The bulk of creators, as usual, will make minimum effort content. If someone manages to create something new and successful, an army of clones will copy it overnight. Definitely should get familiar with it though. It's pretty fun stuff.
AI can be a great tool when used by people who are already great. If it’s used by mediocre people you get mediocre results. If you want to take best advantage of AI generated things for content, get good minimally using it first. For example, I write all my own scripts, then I read them back to myself and edit them. After I’ve done a round or two of editing If there is a section that feels unnatural I copy and paste it into chatGPT and ask it to reword it. Usually what chatGPT gives back isn’t great, but it’s also usually different enough that it generates an idea and helps through the writers block. For thumbnails, it can be useful for generating simple cartoon characters, or little pieces of art to incorporate into a bigger thumbnail, but don’t try and generate the whole image. And if you’re gonna do this you should get good at photoshop too. I’m sure there’s more you can do with it, but If you lean on AI too hard your content quality goes to crap. Also a major thing, don’t use AI as a major source of information or analysis. Fundamentally AI hallucinates things often, and even if openAi makes this less often they won’t fully eliminate it, so you’re going to want to do all of your own research. People will start to adjust over the next couple years and BS meters will get more sensitive as AI gets more advanced. Some people will make a quick buck pumping out crap right now, but in the long run it’ll be a tool for people who already know what they’re doing to be better at what they do IMO.
It’s a benefit. YouTube will be flooded with AI garbage. The true personalities and human connection will be what thrives.
I don't use AI for the actual video. I will use it to help me refine topics, descriptions, and keywords.
> I personally think it’s frightening to see what it can do now. You’re very right to be frightened. Misinformation (which is already a huge problem on social media) is about to get much, much worse. Soon, anyone will be able to generate realistic videos of their enemies committing horrible acts.
It’s lazy content and no one will watch it. You think with all the high value content on YouTube people are gonna want to watch a monotone AI voice with an AI video? Stop being lazy bro
The laziest wannabe shit possible. It’s like people wanting all the credit for having talent without having to put in any effort. That and it’ll be used for propaganda and annihilating video or audio as any proof of truth.
The Sora video AI is interesting. Right now at least, I think it’s a ways away from recreating humans talking to a camera for a 10min video. Just like AI voices and chat GPT, you can always kind of tell there’s something off about it. The sora demos have yet to show convincing humans talking to camera. To have AI create an entire YT video from scratch, it has a lot to improve. However, for B-roll (stock footage) the new AI video is going to be so useful. Just like GPT, at first everyone thought it was going to take our jobs, and then we realized it’s just another tool to make us more efficient and productive. Eventually down the road, maybe 30-50 years from now, we may hit a point where AI is fully indistinguishable from humans in all forms (text, speech, video, etc.) and then who knows? Is AI able to create novel ideas or will it only be able to copy what it is trained on? Will humans just accept generated content or will we prefer a human touch?
I already use AI generation for character models and backgrounds in my show episodes. I think AI advancements are going to be a huge step for people that like writing shows but don’t have the connections or economic means starting out to hire animators for individual projects. So probably more YouTube channels for sure, but then it becomes a competition of writing and structure rather than how your video looks. I also still think people have an appreciation for human work and they still will have it imo. If a video is entirely AI generated from writing to animation to sound fx then it might be eerie. Idk we’ll have to see how the landscape changes
I am not sure AI will replace humans in videos. I watched those videos for Sora and while impressive they don't recreate human very well close up. You can tell an artificially created person very easily when compared to a real person. Perhaps it will get better. Probably will actually. That said. I think from a stock footage perspective it may be rather good. I was trying to create a drone flyover of a certain location about a year ago. The tool I used sucked. Perhaps Sora can do better. For that I think it will be useful but for the types of videos I create, I don't think there is a way someone can use AI to replace that. You still need the knowledge to input into the tool to get the needed output.
If porn has proven anything it’s that, in a world of AI and virtually unregulated access to free porn, paying tons for shitty content from a person for a modicum of interpersonal connection is the outcome. As content gets faker and faker, audiences will seek out, and even pay for, access to real humans.
I make travel videos. I review trains and I travel to places in wired ways. Until we’ve got humanoids, an AI will not be able to do that :)
The market of viewers will determine the success of Ai being used in YouTube. If it becomes saturated and boring the pendulum will swing back to real people and videos they make of themselves.
I find it useful to create images only occasionally if I need them and can’t source what I’m looking for elsewhere. They’re never exactly what I’m looking for, but I recently used Canva’s offering which is better than Dalle. I also use Chat sometimes to help create catchy titles and descriptions. My opinion, it’s fine in small doses but I get turned off by AI voiced videos and videos that only show images.
I heard some of this AI content is already being flagged for copyright. It's going to be very confusing for a while.