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Everybody wants to use LLMs to produce things and absolutely nobody wants to consume the things that LLMs produce and this is the fundamental reason this is all going to collapse unless we find a way for producers to pay consumers to consume their LLM output.

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Gotta disagree. I've found several great new YouTube channels that clearly use ai for everything but the script writing. I assume it's an enthusiastic and smart niche expert who lacks the charisma to make videos in addition to doing the research. In very glad ai is filling in those people's weak spots.

How would you know it’s an enthusiastic and smart expert creating the content you’re consuming, do you have the subject matter expertise to judge that?

The odds are far higher it’s somebody who knows very little about anything but wants to make money from the gullible.

How do you know the scripts aren't AI generated?

Brevity mostly. I'm sure they are partially ai generated, just not in a way that detracts from my enjoyment.

One person's slop is another person's treasure, I guess. I've seen a lot of slop on Youtube, and I block the channels putting it out. It's pretty awful. They use AI narration that can't pronounce simple common phrases correctly. I'm not wasting my time with that garbage, I'd rather give views to actual people producing good content. I don't have time for slop.

What are these youtube channels, care to share their names?

John ag and that survivalist raccoon were the two I had in mind.

hmm, those are definitely AI made. There's one channel I watch periodically that's hard to tell:

https://www.youtube.com/@MedievalWay

Here's a sample video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKdKr4VONc4

I suspect the voice is AI, the thumbnails definitely are, but unsure of the rest of the content. It's really interesting and the content in the video seems legit (looked up the "forgotten vegetables" and was surprised to find that we did forgo a lot of tasty things to satisfy the machine harvesters).

Guessing it's likely a phd student with too much time on their hand.

Great case in point. I think the whole "forgotten/banned garden plant" genre appeared post ai. Probably too difficult to get together enough visuals for a full length video on an obscure plant before.

> Gotta disagree. I've found several great new YouTube channels that clearly use ai for everything but the script writing. I assume it's an enthusiastic and smart niche expert who lacks the charisma to make videos in addition to doing the research. In very glad ai is filling in those people's weak spots.

But why are you glad? There's no intrinsic right to be popular on YouTube, or to be successful. There's also no lack of YouTubers making interesting videos. Why not let a "natural selection" of sorts weed out these people who lack the charisma or whatever to make videos without AI?

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