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-- there is this guy on youtube - simon whistler - has a bunch of channels - he basically reads wikipedia articles in an exciting british accent - some of the p

-- there is this guy on youtube - simon whistler - has a bunch of channels - he basically reads wikipedia articles in an exciting british accent - some of the paid text to speech stuff getting so good - been thinking - should just text to speech wiki articles with some tweaking so they read like a script - or just copy paste a wiki article to GTP3 and ask it to rewrite it as a script - coupled with video diffusion - upload them and see what happens - but the whole thing feels very gross to me - so not done it --

DamnInteresting 4y ago
Simon Whistler is a parasitic knob. I own and operate a website where I have been researching and writing original non-fiction content for almost 20 years, and Simon used to do paid voice work for me, narrating my writings for podcasts and audio books. Everything seemed to be on the up-and-up, but one day I discovered that he had quietly started making videos for a site that was systematically borderline plagiarizing my writings. Then he started multiple other YouTube channels where he covered the same topics he had recorded for my site, often with striking similarities. To date there are well over 100 of his videos that appear to be "inspired" by my content. For example: Me, 2008: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-third-reichs-diabolical-orbiting-superweapon/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-third-reichs-diabolical-... Simon, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mP4RQ783lk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mP4RQ783lk Me, 2005: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-a-giant/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-... Simon, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdMolMlDzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdMolMlDzw The list goes on and on. I've been writing online long enough that I've been poached and plagiarized six ways from Sunday, but no one else has come close to leeching so long and systematically as this unoriginal, abject freeloader. Simon Whistler is downright seaward.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago
  -- sorry for calling you wikipedia - great work!! - per my original post - maybe you can use new ML tech to beat simon at his own game =) --

DamnInteresting 4y ago

Simon Whistler is a parasitic knob. I own and operate a website where I have been researching and writing original non-fiction content for almost 20 years, and Simon used to do paid voice work for me, narrating my writings for podcasts and audio books. Everything seemed to be on the up-and-up, but one day I discovered that he had quietly started making videos for a site that was systematically borderline plagiarizing my writings. Then he started multiple other YouTube channels where he covered the same topics he had recorded for my site, often with striking similarities. To date there are well over 100 of his videos that appear to be "inspired" by my content. For example: Me, 2008: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-third-reichs-diabolical-orbiting-superweapon/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-third-reichs-diabolical-... Simon, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mP4RQ783lk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mP4RQ783lk Me, 2005: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-a-giant/ https://www.damninteresting.com/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-... Simon, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdMolMlDzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdMolMlDzw The list goes on and on. I've been writing online long enough that I've been poached and plagiarized six ways from Sunday, but no one else has come close to leeching so long and systematically as this unoriginal, abject freeloader. Simon Whistler is downright seaward.

pigtailgirl 4y ago
-- sorry for calling you wikipedia - great work!! - per my original post - maybe you can use new ML tech to beat simon at his own game =) --