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I hate to be so cynical, but I'm dreading the inevitable flood of AI generated video spam. We really are about this close to infinite jest. Imagine TikTok's al
by axblount 2y ago
I hate to be so cynical, but I'm dreading the inevitable flood of AI generated video spam.
We really are about this close to infinite jest. Imagine TikTok's algorithm with on demand video generation to suit your exact tastes. It may erase the social aspect, but for many users I doubt that would matter too much. "Lurking" into oblivion.
- rm_-rf_slash 2y agoAnd somehow our exact tastes would also include influencer coded advertisements.
- lordswork 2y agoIt's already here. There are communities forming around generating passive income from mass producing AI videos as tiktoks and shorts.
- axblount 2y agoI saw one of those where a guy just made videos about increasingly elaborate AI generated cakes. You're right, I guess we're mostly there. But those still require some human input. I'm imagining a sort of genetic algorithm for video prompts, no human editing, input, or curation required.
- tikkun 2y agoWhat's the subreddit?
- barbariangrunge 2y agoYouTube’s endgame is to not need content creators in the loop any more. The algorithm will just create everything
- esafak 2y agoThe endgame of that is that people will leave.
- darby_eight 2y agoI'm somewhat surprised people still watch YouTube with the horrible recommendations and non-stop spam
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- astrange 2y agoYouTube actually has really good recommendations and comments these days. In fact I would say the comments are too good. They clearly have something ranking them for "niceness" but it makes them impossibly sentimental. Like I watched a bunch of videos about 70s rock recently and every single comment was about how someone's family member just died of cancer and how much they loved listening to it.
- belter 2y agoHenry Ford II: Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues? Walter Reuther: Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?
- LZ_Khan 2y agoI had the same thought regarding infinite jest recently
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- beacon294 2y agoCan you explain this aspect of infinite jest to me without spoiling the book?
- avnfish 2y agoIt's introduced early on (and not what the book is really about): distribution of a video that is so entertaining that any viewer is compelled to watch it until they die
- jprete 2y agoAt the bottom of the text blurb on the Veo page: "In the future, we’ll also bring some of Veo’s capabilities to YouTube Shorts and other products." So...you're not cynical, it's an explicit product goal.
- Invictus0 2y agoThis basically already exists for porn
- redml 2y agoI think of it as we're replacing the SEO spam we have right now with AI spam. At least now we can fight that with more AI.
- sph 2y agoThere's a naive statement to make.
- layer8 2y agoIf it really suited my exact tastes, that would actually be great. But I don’t see how we’re anywhere close to that. And they won’t target matching your exact taste. They will target the threshold where it’s just barely interesting enough that people don’t turn it off.