YouTube Will Use AI To Generate Ideas, Titles, and Even Full Videos 28
YouTube has announced a series of AI-related features on the platform, including a couple that might change how creators make videos -- and the videos they make. From a report: The first feature is the new Inspiration tab in the YouTube Studio app, which YouTube has been testing in a limited way over the last few months. The tab's job is, essentially, to tell you what to make: the AI-powered tool will suggest a concept for a video, provide a title and a thumbnail, and even write an outline and the first few lines of the video for you. YouTube frames it as a helpful brainstorming tool but also acknowledges that you can use it to build out entire projects. And I'm just guessing here, but I'd bet those AI-created ideas are going to be pretty darn good at gaming the YouTube algorithm.
Once you have some AI inspiration, you can make some AI videos with Veo, the superpowerful DeepMind video model that is now being integrated into YouTube Shorts. Veo is mostly going to be part of the "Dream Screen" feature YouTube has been working on, which is an extension of the green screen concept but with AI-generated backgrounds of all sorts. You'll also be able to make full Veo videos, too, but only with clips up to six seconds long. (After a few seconds, AI video tends to get... really weird.)
Once you have some AI inspiration, you can make some AI videos with Veo, the superpowerful DeepMind video model that is now being integrated into YouTube Shorts. Veo is mostly going to be part of the "Dream Screen" feature YouTube has been working on, which is an extension of the green screen concept but with AI-generated backgrounds of all sorts. You'll also be able to make full Veo videos, too, but only with clips up to six seconds long. (After a few seconds, AI video tends to get... really weird.)
But don't you dare use AI to create viewers (Score:2)
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Oh goody more AI slop to scroll through (Score:1)
I would like to see AI make it possible for small video game studios to compete head-on with the likes of electronic arts and Activision and Microsoft. It would be nice to see those nasty little companies taken down a peg. But I don't think they're going to take that lying down and I'm left wondering what they're going to do in response. Whatever it is it won't be pretty.
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I have basically given up. I have one engineering content creator now on YouTube and one Cooking channel that I watch. Whenever I browse to find more, all I find is crap.
Opt-out or ban (Score:1)
What YouTube really needs is (Score:3, Insightful)
mass-generated junk. There's simply not enough. The demand for 5-legged cats is astronomical.
Vs. Handfrafted Junk? (Score:2)
mass-generated junk
Is that any better than handcrafted junk? Just look at Amazon's Rings of Power series to see the quality of writing and acting that $1 billion will buy you today. When billion dollar series sound like badly written fan fiction there is at least a chance that AI will actually be better or at least get to be better with time.
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It already uses AI to create "chapters" or points of interest in a video. Except that Youtube is very very bad at this and it looks very silly at times when it guesses wrong about the highlights of the video.
Oh great! (Score:2)
When I see all those 'trending' YouTube influencers who get astounding numbers of views and subscribers for putting out utterly pointless and trivial shit, my first thought is, "Yes, more please!" /sarc
So sure, let's spend even more of the planet-burning energy required by 'AI' to create content which, by way of comparison, makes even cat videos look like PhD dissertations.
OTOH, I guess I'm burning the planet just by writing this. :-{
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They can get me to click but not to stay. (Score:1)
Unless I can be sure it's a real human being within a few seconds, I'm out of there.
Because AI material is very "fluffy"... it makes excessive generic statements without every communicating real information.
So they are going to have to improve AI so it is providing denser information to be worth listening to.
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Because AI material is very "fluffy"... it makes excessive generic statements without every communicating real information.
Indeed. A total waste of time.
You won’t even notice the shift. (Score:2)
In 10 years, most will likely prefer talking to it rather than whom. It’ll be so subtle you won’t even notice.
Starbucks didn’t become a global brand name because of their amazing coffee. They became a global brand because of their consistency. Your favorite double-fuckaccino tastes the exact same in Salem and Singapore. When AI becomes proficient and consistent in any task, no customer will want to deal with the tired/stressed/sick/incompetent human. And no employer will either.
You,
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"it makes excessive generic statements without every communicating real information."
Its going to be hilarious watching AI evolve and grasp the concept of oh, so the goal is bullshit the bullshitter? and absolutely demolish with it.
al spam (Score:2)
just what we needed ai spam
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Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am
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Lovely Spam! (Lovely Spam!)
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Lovely Spam!
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam!
probably a step backwards (Score:1)
content creators/channel owners are already having to fight YT's social agenda. This is going to make things even worse for them in trying to decide what topics they want to (will be ALLOWED) to cover and stay monetized.
"Sorry, you haven't followed the AI's instructions to back this idea. You have been demonetized. No more superchats or donations for you."
So more enshittification? Great! (Score:2)
Most stuff on YouTube is already mediocre or bad. I guess they want more in the "abysmal" group.
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The vast majority of videos... (Score:2)
...on Youtube are crap
This appears to be a tool to make it easier and faster to create crap
They must like crap
Quality vs. quantity (Score:2)
Every hour, there are 300,000 hours of new video content uploaded to Youtube. "Increasing the amount of content" is not a rational goal for them, either from a business perspective, or from any other perspective. At this point they are drowning in low-quality content, and that makes the platform less engaging. There is already an epidemic of low-quality content which uses AI narration instead of human narration (personally, I find the AI narrators obnoxious and will instantly block any channel that uses