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Written article that takes two minutes to read -> half hour YT vid with 95% fluff against a background of bookshelves with a succulent, a toy robot, and a mildl
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
Written article that takes two minutes to read -> half hour YT vid with 95% fluff against a background of bookshelves with a succulent, a toy robot, and a mildly interesting light fitting -> AI -> text summary that takes two minutes to read.
- throw10920 3y agoI blame YouTube, and (separately) the ad-supported model. I don't like the trend of turning articles into videos in the first place, but without the fact that the longer you make a video the more ads you can stuff into it (and YouTube's crazy amount of ads), I think most videos would be much shorter, simply because long videos take more effort to produce. YouTube Premium doesn't help much here because (1) as long as there is a significant amount of users watching ads, YouTube will still incentivize creators to make longer videos and (2) the subscription model is a bad deal for everyone but YouTube themselves (users only rent their content instead of "own" (which is still a better deal for almost all values of "item own"), creators get a tiny slice of a fixed-size pie).