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"On November 23, French-Canadian outlet Tabloïd released a video investigation about Toy Monster, a channel linked to Webs and Tiaras. They confronted the video
by sdenton4 3y ago
"On November 23, French-Canadian outlet Tabloïd released a video investigation about Toy Monster, a channel linked to Webs and Tiaras. They confronted the videos' creators – based out of the south shore of Quebec City – who refused to be interviewed. One of the actors featured in the videos anonymously stated that he was contractually obligated to refrain from commenting. The investigation revealed that identical content was being posted on numerous channels apparently operated by the same people."
This seems to be the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqqIlKHgpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqqIlKHgpo
- adastra22 3y agoYeah that doesn’t say how the video was being generated. I meant how, not who. It could have been ML-based.
- sdenton4 3y agoI'm not clear how you think the ML of 2017 would have been useful for generating these videos? This points to specific actors and creators, who I expect were using whatever was cheap and easy to produce a pile of content with in 2017.
- adastra22 3y agoPre-2017 tech would have been up to the task. You'd create a bunch of generic animations and characters (all rigged up to the same skeletal system so all the animations work on all the characters), and design composable elements for a scene. Then use ML categorization techniques to label both popular YouTube videos and your pieces. From there it would be mostly automated: the ML agent strings together scenes to create a bunch of videos, then use reinforcement learning to adjust and mutate content based on some metric of view counts.