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This sounds like it would absolutely ruin the internet as a resource for how-to videos. When anyone can use massive amounts of data scraping and underpaid labor

by alexb_ 4y ago

This sounds like it would absolutely ruin the internet as a resource for how-to videos. When anyone can use massive amounts of data scraping and underpaid labor to make extremely low quality videos and spam youtube with them, actually half decent how-to videos will get completely lost. Not to mention, you can just put something completely wrong on without making it immediately obvious. Imagine Roel Van de Paar[1] except anyone can easily do it and the quality isn't so bad that it gets lost in the algorithm. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/roelvandepaar https://www.youtube.com/c/roelvandepaar

mkl 4y ago
There are tons of low-effort text-to-speech how-to videos on YouTube already, so I think that's a battle already being lost.
pbprabhuram 4y ago
Omg you completely got it wrong, the focus here is to create support, training and educational videos without spending much money or effort.
- mkl 4y ago
  Cheap low-effort AI-narrated training videos are exactly the problem alexb_ is referring to. WowTo seems like a good tool for that, so if YouTube spam isn't what you're intending, how would you control what people use it for?
  - geoduck14 4y ago
    Imagine you are a plumber that needs to onboard new people at your work and they need to know how to do a plumbing thing. Turn over is pretty high and teaching each and everyone of them yourself takes a lot of time - so you make a video.
    - mkl 4y ago
      Sure, but just because good valuable videos are possible doesn't mean it will only be used for that.
marban 4y ago
The problem is already imminent — Just search for anything on YT and order by latest first. 99% garbage.
TekMol 4y ago
What happened to Van de Paar? It seems he stopped his video creation frenzy 10 days ago?
- marban 4y ago
  Perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI was the reason
brudgers 4y ago
Then consider the internet ruined, auto generated how-to videos exist on Youtube and elsewhere (probably in much greater numbers than easily spring to mind). I see them from time to time in the long tail. But I suspect mostly the search algorithm deals with spam reasonably.

by alexb_ 4y ago

mkl 4y ago

There are tons of low-effort text-to-speech how-to videos on YouTube already, so I think that's a battle already being lost.

pbprabhuram 4y ago

Omg you completely got it wrong, the focus here is to create support, training and educational videos without spending much money or effort.

mkl 4y ago
Cheap low-effort AI-narrated training videos are exactly the problem alexb_ is referring to. WowTo seems like a good tool for that, so if YouTube spam isn't what you're intending, how would you control what people use it for?
- geoduck14 4y ago
  Imagine you are a plumber that needs to onboard new people at your work and they need to know how to do a plumbing thing. Turn over is pretty high and teaching each and everyone of them yourself takes a lot of time - so you make a video.
  - mkl 4y ago
    Sure, but just because good valuable videos are possible doesn't mean it will only be used for that.

marban 4y ago

The problem is already imminent — Just search for anything on YT and order by latest first. 99% garbage.

TekMol 4y ago

What happened to Van de Paar? It seems he stopped his video creation frenzy 10 days ago?

marban 4y ago
Perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI was the reason

brudgers 4y ago

Then consider the internet ruined, auto generated how-to videos exist on Youtube and elsewhere (probably in much greater numbers than easily spring to mind). I see them from time to time in the long tail. But I suspect mostly the search algorithm deals with spam reasonably.