The non-music part of YouTube is pretty obviously a combination of education + parasocial stuff. That's the product they want to present. The autogenerated stuff hurt the quality.
YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
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Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#12As with everything there are levels of grey here.
On one side there's the 100% human created content (script, voice & image) and on the other the 100% full AI slop. But the interesting use of AI is between these extremes.
Maybe someone uses ChatGPT to help writing the script, or adds some nice visuals that help the video (taste is a thing).
Or like one of my favorite channels that I recommend to anyone that wants to know how computing works on a lower level:
https://www.youtube.com/@CoreDumpped
This guy is from Ecuador and uses an AI voice (from 11Labs) on its videos and I didn't thought too much about it until he asked on a video if people would like him to use his own voice. And reading the comments his viewers (me included) didn't care too much about the voice and even some of them liked it (it's clear and soothing).
In this case AI makes the content better 100%.
PS: He also does all animations on Powerpoint, that blew my mind.
Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#13I block all channels which show me AI videos. I haven’t seen one in months so I guess I blocked them all
On the occasion that I look at Youtube via an incognito window, I'm blown away by how bad the default YouTube experience has gotten - AI slop and rage-bait rule the day.
Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#14As with everything there are levels of grey here. On one side there's the 100% human created content (script, voice & image) and on the other the 100% full AI slop. But the interesting use of AI is between these extremes. Maybe someone uses ChatGPT to help writing the script, or adds some nice visuals that help the video (taste is a thing). Or like one of my favorite channels that I recommend to anyone that wants to…
Roel Van De Paar is the king of automates slop, 2 Millions videos of expert_sexchange questions.
Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#15Fake trailers should be banned as well.
Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#16I block all channels which show me AI videos. I haven’t seen one in months so I guess I blocked them all
I suspect the slop channels (not just AI, just low quality mass production stuff) is part of the very, very long tail of youtube aimed at the less discerning viewer.
Nothing new there, TV is/was the same.
Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#17Good. People like @roelvandepaar (2 million videos) should have been shut down years ago.
That's not AI though. Mass produced sure, probably has a workflow to convert SO answers into video's in a fixed format, but the guy records a personal video to go with it at least.
Re: YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows
#18Good. People like @roelvandepaar (2 million videos) should have been shut down years ago.
That's not AI though. Mass produced sure, probably has a workflow to convert SO answers into video's in a fixed format, but the guy records a personal video to go with it at least.
Yeah the article says they're moving to ban mass produced videos "that have become easier to generate with the help of AI technology." It doesn't say they're only banning AI-generated stuff.
I'm pretty sure he's not recorded 2m personal video intros too.