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There is a huge audience for AI-generated content on YouTube, though admittedly many of them are oblivious to the fact that they are watching AI-generated conte

by Kuiper 11mo ago

There is a huge audience for AI-generated content on YouTube, though admittedly many of them are oblivious to the fact that they are watching AI-generated content. Here are several examples of videos with 1 million views that people don't seem to realize are AI-generated: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxvTjrsNtxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxvTjrsNtxA * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDnMpuSYic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDnMpuSYic These videos do have some editing which I believe was done by human editors, but the scripts are written by GPT, the assets are all AI-generated illustrations, and the voice is AI-generated. (The fact that the Sleepless Historian channel is 100% AI generated becomes even more obvious if you look at the channel's early uploads, where you have a stiff 3D avatar sitting in a chair and delivering a 1-hour lecture in a single take while maintaining the same rigid posture.) If you look at Reddit comment sections on large default subs, many of the top-voted posts are obviously composed by GPT. People post LLM-generated stories to the /r/fantasywriters subreddit and get praised for their "beautiful metaphors. The revealed preference of many people is that they love AI-generated content, they are content to watch it on YouTube, upvote it on Reddit, or "like" it on Facebook. These people are not part of "the Midjourney community," they just see AI-generated content out in the wild and enjoy it.

lawlessone 11mo ago
Their rate of uploads makes it obvious too. 3 hour videos multiple times a week. Compare that Fall Of Civilizations (a fantastic podcast btw) that often has 7 months between videos.
anal_reactor 11mo ago
Hot take but I don't care if the content I consume is AI-generated or not. First of all, while sometimes I need high-effort quality content, sometimes I want my brain to rest and then AI-generated slop is completely okay. He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone. Second, just because something is AI-generated it doesn't automatically mean it's slop, just like human-generated content isn't automatically slop-free. Boring History For Sleep allowed me to see medieval times in a more emotional way, something that history books "this king did this and then won but then in 1274 was poisoned and died" never did.
- blargey 11mo ago
  > He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone I'm not in a rock-throwing mood, but I qualify for that easily. False consensus effect cuts against AI...mass-production? aficionados just as much as hardline opponents.
- FridgeSeal 11mo ago
  > He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone Stand by then, because I have rocks and according to you, licence to throw them. You are free to watch all the slop you want. All I want is for your slop, to not be at the cost of all other media and content. Have a SlopTube, have SlopFlix, go for it! But do it in a way that is _separate_ and doesn’t inflict it on the rest of us, who would _like_ human produced content, even if the AI stuff is “just as good”.
  - danudey 11mo ago
    Just let me choose a filter when I'm doing a search on YouTube and that's a good start. Beyond that I can just block or 'don't recommend this channel' for anything that shows up in my feed, but the fact that these platforms don't let people say 'I don't want this garbage' is the biggest issue I have with it.
  - ehnto 11mo ago
    Your later point is hard to convey to people who don't want to hear it. I don't want AI content, even if it is as good, or even if it were better. The human element IS the point, not an implementation detail. An AI song about sailing at sea is meaningless because I know the AI has never sailed at sea. This is a standard we hold humans to, authenticity is important even for human artists, why would we give AI a pass on it? And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing.
    - Marsymars 11mo ago
      > And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing. Would you? That seems achievable with current technology, bolt a PC with a camera onto a sailing ship and prompt it to compose text based on some image recognition.
paradox460 11mo ago
Reddit has been full of bad fake stories for ages. All that AI does is automate it
- Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
  Karma farming accounts I guess. I loved it when sometimes on r/Aita or something people would call out the sheer inconsistencies of the karma farming accounts "So you are telling me that you were 26 year old and now you are suddenly 40??" Or just sheer inconsistencies which can make one laugh at the whole situation.
  - paradox460 11mo ago
    The biggest problem is every story telling sub eventually grows the rule "don't question the story" I'm not sure why the mods adopt it. Maybe they think having a comment section full of people calling out a lie isn't good or something, but whenever the rule goes into place it's like a switch is thrown, and shortly thereafter all the stores in that sub will rot away into lies Happened to tales from tech support, I don't work here, several parenting subreddits, aita, and more
rockskon 11mo ago
Remains to be seen if that's sustainable or a flash in the pan.
cruffle_duffle 11mo ago
Dude I had to stop watching that “sleepy whatever” channel. It was so blatant simply based upon how frequent the “thing” was posting. It’s simply not possible for a human to crank out well researched two hour long videos daily. And even then, the things content is so repetitive in each video (granted that might be the point, it is “sleepless historian” after all). That sleepless channel is one of an entire series of very similar channels with the same voice and same “style” of content. Some get lots of views, others not so much. Honestly, eventually people will spot that shit stuff from a mile away. None of it is unique nor does it add any “entropy” as some other commenter here said.
ropable 11mo ago
I really, really wish that Youtube would start tagging this category of video to increase the visibility to end users. My feeling is that the main reason this content might be "winning" in the market is the sheer volume.
Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
I can attest to this. I don't remember what channel but recently I have been into dexter and I have been watching a lot of dexter related content on youtube and I once think that I saw either down-right AI generated or very LLM-y style video / channel in general. Like, the way they speak etc. felt very AI generated imo. Nobody questioned it in the comments. I genuinely started wondering what is the point of AI generated content when people will find out its AI and then reject it or shame them etc. but I think that either I believed that humans in general would detect it more often or maybe the fact that people would start using AI in very sneaky ways maybe to not be labelled AI slop while still being very AI assisted. I don't have problem with AI assistance but I just feel this hate when an AI generated voice speaks AI generated text which I recognize due to the patterns like "It isn't just X, Its y" and the countless others examples.

by Kuiper 11mo ago

lawlessone 11mo ago

Their rate of uploads makes it obvious too. 3 hour videos multiple times a week. Compare that Fall Of Civilizations (a fantastic podcast btw) that often has 7 months between videos.

anal_reactor 11mo ago

Hot take but I don't care if the content I consume is AI-generated or not. First of all, while sometimes I need high-effort quality content, sometimes I want my brain to rest and then AI-generated slop is completely okay. He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone. Second, just because something is AI-generated it doesn't automatically mean it's slop, just like human-generated content isn't automatically slop-free. Boring History For Sleep allowed me to see medieval times in a more emotional way, something that history books "this king did this and then won but then in 1274 was poisoned and died" never did.

blargey 11mo ago
> He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone I'm not in a rock-throwing mood, but I qualify for that easily. False consensus effect cuts against AI...mass-production? aficionados just as much as hardline opponents.
FridgeSeal 11mo ago
> He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone Stand by then, because I have rocks and according to you, licence to throw them. You are free to watch all the slop you want. All I want is for your slop, to not be at the cost of all other media and content. Have a SlopTube, have SlopFlix, go for it! But do it in a way that is _separate_ and doesn’t inflict it on the rest of us, who would _like_ human produced content, even if the AI stuff is “just as good”.
- danudey 11mo ago
  Just let me choose a filter when I'm doing a search on YouTube and that's a good start. Beyond that I can just block or 'don't recommend this channel' for anything that shows up in my feed, but the fact that these platforms don't let people say 'I don't want this garbage' is the biggest issue I have with it.
- ehnto 11mo ago
  Your later point is hard to convey to people who don't want to hear it. I don't want AI content, even if it is as good, or even if it were better. The human element IS the point, not an implementation detail. An AI song about sailing at sea is meaningless because I know the AI has never sailed at sea. This is a standard we hold humans to, authenticity is important even for human artists, why would we give AI a pass on it? And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing.
  - Marsymars 11mo ago
    > And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing. Would you? That seems achievable with current technology, bolt a PC with a camera onto a sailing ship and prompt it to compose text based on some image recognition.

paradox460 11mo ago

Reddit has been full of bad fake stories for ages. All that AI does is automate it

Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
Karma farming accounts I guess. I loved it when sometimes on r/Aita or something people would call out the sheer inconsistencies of the karma farming accounts "So you are telling me that you were 26 year old and now you are suddenly 40??" Or just sheer inconsistencies which can make one laugh at the whole situation.
- paradox460 11mo ago
  The biggest problem is every story telling sub eventually grows the rule "don't question the story" I'm not sure why the mods adopt it. Maybe they think having a comment section full of people calling out a lie isn't good or something, but whenever the rule goes into place it's like a switch is thrown, and shortly thereafter all the stores in that sub will rot away into lies Happened to tales from tech support, I don't work here, several parenting subreddits, aita, and more

rockskon 11mo ago

Remains to be seen if that's sustainable or a flash in the pan.

cruffle_duffle 11mo ago

Dude I had to stop watching that “sleepy whatever” channel. It was so blatant simply based upon how frequent the “thing” was posting. It’s simply not possible for a human to crank out well researched two hour long videos daily. And even then, the things content is so repetitive in each video (granted that might be the point, it is “sleepless historian” after all). That sleepless channel is one of an entire series of very similar channels with the same voice and same “style” of content. Some get lots of views, others not so much. Honestly, eventually people will spot that shit stuff from a mile away. None of it is unique nor does it add any “entropy” as some other commenter here said.

ropable 11mo ago

I really, really wish that Youtube would start tagging this category of video to increase the visibility to end users. My feeling is that the main reason this content might be "winning" in the market is the sheer volume.

Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago

I can attest to this. I don't remember what channel but recently I have been into dexter and I have been watching a lot of dexter related content on youtube and I once think that I saw either down-right AI generated or very LLM-y style video / channel in general. Like, the way they speak etc. felt very AI generated imo. Nobody questioned it in the comments. I genuinely started wondering what is the point of AI generated content when people will find out its AI and then reject it or shame them etc. but I think that either I believed that humans in general would detect it more often or maybe the fact that people would start using AI in very sneaky ways maybe to not be labelled AI slop while still being very AI assisted. I don't have problem with AI assistance but I just feel this hate when an AI generated voice speaks AI generated text which I recognize due to the patterns like "It isn't just X, Its y" and the countless others examples.