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YouTube Will Use AI To Generate Ideas, Titles, and Even Full Videos

(Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:22AM (msmash) from the aggressive-expansion dept.)


YouTube has announced a series of AI-related features on the platform, including a couple that might [1]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.

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> 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.)



[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247559/youtube-ai-videos-veo-inspiration-tab



But don't you dare use AI to create viewers (Score:2)

by Aero77 ( 1242364 )

because that is fraud and that shit will land you in prison.

Oh goody more AI slop to scroll through (Score:1)

by rsilvergun ( 571051 )

Finding content worth a damn is going to become very hard in the coming years.

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.

Opt-out or ban (Score:1)

by madsh ( 266758 )

If I (as a viewer) donĂ¢(TM)t get a donĂ¢(TM)t show me AI crap toogle, I am gonna ban the App from my devices.

What YouTube really needs is (Score:2)

by Tablizer ( 95088 )

mass-generated junk. There's simply not enough. The demand for 5-legged cats is astronomical.

Oh great! (Score:2)

by jenningsthecat ( 1525947 )

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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