JimsonYang

One of Micheal and Dalton video does address this

Even if you larp revenue, when you get acquired or go public auditors will figure stuff out. Or worse you go to prison. Its like cheating in college-youre just hurtung yourself and others

So the VA jobs are dying are the low end side(like how we see jobs getting fired due to an overhiring prepandemic)?

Cuz i agree, if theres good acting, good voices, paying humans is a no brainer. Theres just so much sludge and it feels hard to get into contact with good VAs

I would say anything where the budget is more than 5-10k and has a production timeline of more than 3 months

Then your time cost of finding VA(1+ month) and paying them is a smaller fraction overall

Btw I know what I said is inflammatory, but this is what Im seeing in industry. Only exception would be in high end work like key VAs in shows and movies

Voice acting has always been a dying art, but AI for sure is killing it

Unless the work is higher end theres just so much hassle working with humans. You got to do a casting call, wait weeks to get 100 applicants, listen to all of them, and pray that the VA still actually does a good job. Ive hired VAs in the past and unless the work is very high end, we choose AI and this trend doesnt seem to be stopping.

For consumers, they dont seem to notice or care. For instance, all those movie recap videos you see on youtube? All AI narration. Those still get 100k+ views

I already did- I ask it to inform purchasing decisions and use it as a google to determine etf/bond allocations

Do I need a custom app for this? No, claude in a csv + me looking over it works fine. Im not an avg consumer which I would argue isnt doing dcf models on their retirement plan

Very interesting, I now see the reasoning of the VC hypothesis that the current hardware wasnt suited for AI, and therefore you got the all the wearables startups

I should make this clear-forcing your kids into kumon so they can skip a grade is really shitty

I know its happens, but optimizing for education goals in American is usuabbly a faux pax

Being frank I think its not enough to have a good looking app and have some llm calls

Think about your competition for your market. When I want my child to really excel in learning, I would force them into kumon - so they can skip a grade. If your a student who wants to learn you have khan academy.

And im just not seeing anything that screams-this is better than khan academy and kumon

All i see is an education app with good design

Sorry if it sounds harsh

P.s. if youre on the mission of educating people from developing countries-different story and different problems. Ignore what i put here then

Clarify your question?

Are you asking how are they built? I wouldnt know, but ive been offered services to engage in reddit marketing

Have you read the Sal Khan thoughts on AI and education?

About 1-2 years ago he had similar thoughts to solve that exact problem you mentioned.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/04/09/sal-khan-reflects-on-ai...

Sal khan being the founder of Khan academy the most popular online education course

Wouldnt this be a show hn?

What is being taught to 5 year olds? And why would an AI tutor be better than an pre-k learning app

Most students are pretty homogeneous in learning at that stage

Reddit has 13% bots? I dont believe it, reddit is swarmed with engagement farms and auto reply bots

Well thats your problem, everyone knows you got to apply to YC to get funded

/s

I was expecting the grandma voice to be the voice model and i was like woah this is incredibly good

update: I just spent more money on seedance and I chop up the lines. Turns out prettys good

Being real, I have no idea. I can only say in my industry(entertainment) which i believe 80% of content consumed is by AI(think like ultra niche specialized content but for the majority of people). 20% will be by humans commanding a premium

Somewhere between infinite wealth generating utopia and ultra late stage capitalism where 99.9% of the population cater to the upper class

/s

Do you happen to be in SF?

If you are-I bet you can stand on the streets of SOMA with a sign asking for feedback

Whats the use cases where cheaper and faster img models are key differentiators?

I mean 3 cents compared to 6 cents doesnt seem like much in my mind-unless youre running a consumer saas

Ill have to give both of those a try

Youre right, i forgot to add

4) europeans are environemtally conscious

Americans however like their gas guzzling F150s.

The reason I did the original comment was I know for a time the major car companies did a huge push into EVs.

Like the ford 150 lightning, chevy bolt and mustang mach E. But they stopped manufacturing them due to weakened sales and profitability.

Its a vicious feedback loop of consumer adoption, high car prices, and capital investment which makes us feel stuck

*edit this is based on what I heard from a GM exec during a lecture visit while at UofM

*after further research it seems option 1 is really limited to tier 1 and tier 2 cities(1/3) of the population

>Americans watch the rest of the world getting better, cheaper, ...

If we wanted cheap cars, there needs to be demand to justify building giga factories of EVs.

There just wasnt sufficient consumer demand to justify the giga factory investments

China CAN generate demand for EVs because they have the political ability to

1) force gas restricted cars to only drive on certain days of the week

2) create a brutal lottery to get a license plate to legally drive a gas car

3) provide a bunch of subsidies

The US has only done option 3.

Out govt system literally doesnt have the political will to do these brutal but effective policy changes

As of now chatgpt subsidies its consumer subscription-I wonder if cheating on exams will be still promiment once students are forced to pay $30 a month

Since students are notorious for being cheap

just to understand this.

You're saying Sam Altman told the Trump Admin to ban anthropic. Then in order to cover up his tracks, Sam told either fabricated this story or told Trump to tell his company to limit customers?

I'm not starting a political fight on hn, but I do need clarification on what you're saying in the first sentence

For parents-whats the benefit of this?

Afaik, parents are super protective of their children and would never do something that could inhibit a childs learning

there was an older yc video where they asked founders where they got their first customer. a lot of people said * cold outreach/sales * personal network * reddit

Obv the videos these are general brushes, I would imagine they put this video in a counter reaction to the many startups thinking they need an expensive product launch video in order to get their first few clients

I wonder how this information will influence Republican party political strategy

We already know chatbots already inform political views, if LLMs become the battleground for informing political views I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump admin takes a more nationalistic stance on the AI models