Posts by Symph

So it's a site where you can type words and then it will turn it into an AI generated voice for you so you don't have to talk yourself? I dunno I kinda vote we kill it with fire.... 🤡

Naw I mean, I guess if someone can use it who is too nervous to talk themselves or whatever that's ok, I just personally would like to see all these things that take the human element out disappear. And I will say that I do not watch ANY videos with an AI generated voice, the moment I can tell it's AI I click off no matter what the video is.

I've had this strange idea that I might not do thumbnails at all but just put a bar across the top of each video with color and a label to let my audience know what type of video it is, and then just picking a decent looking screen shot to be the thumbnail. My reasoning is that now that EVERYONE is doing the professional looking thumbnail with the eye catching design etc, that a low effort minimalistic approach will actually be what stands out. If nobody clicks my vids though I'll try something else lol

(My other reason is laziness, I don't like making thumbnails lol)

Hey! I know that dork!

I sure wish I could have stuck to those schedules I always tried to make, it makes me happy to know the song had such an impact on you. I'm trying to think of videos from back then I'd be nostalgic for but I hardly remember what I was watching! There is one channel that comes to mind

Kid History: "Healthy Food" Episode 6 (True Stories)

Oh what I DO remember is how much I hated Onision, I mocked him for his pro vegan video, then years later I went vegan lol (I'm not anymore though)

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That is a very good point about I think it really depends on the channel type and audience youre aiming for. Like with music it is loved more or less universally, if you have a rock channel your family and friends may love listening to it. I used to support my old best friends band loads back in the day and loved hearing his new songs so it does seem case by case. With very niche stuff like say hot wheels race track content aimed at collectors that may not be the best to share as much as they arent likely to stay around long.

Yeah seems like this is a "know thyself" situation, only you truly know if your friends and family will be a help or a hindrance... hehe and if you're not sure maybe just play it safe and stick to the youtube audience idk.

This is a tough one, it certainly makes me very uncomfortable, but if I really think about it, I'm not sure it's gonna have the detrimental impact that some people think it will. (is there a way to make this thing stop trying to guess what I'm about to say? It's driving me nuts) I mean the way I see it, no matter how good it gets, it will not be able to convincingly mimick the most unique people out there. Like I highly doubt it would ever be able to make a convincing Markiplier video, or even a Ted Nivison etc, because these people surprise us, they have a style but the style is spontaneous, they do weird voices and impressions and scream etc. I don't even think 10 years from now AI will be able to convincingly replicate THAT.

I DO think it will (and maybe already can) convincingly be able to replicate lower energy "NPC" types, people who talk the same way every video, just deliver information, the more monotone among us etc. But here's the thing, if that's you? Why would someone want to use AI to steal that anyway? That's not unique enough for someone to WANT to steal. (Also, if you have that kind of delivery, I'm not saying that's bad or anything, I don't mean "NPC" negatively, a lot of people do research and do awesome informative videos with a monotone delivery). So I guess I"m just not sure who's really gonna suffer from this, if you try to trick us into thinking it's a truly animated unique person we all know? It probably will never be able to get the nuance right. If it tries to mimick the monotone? First off why bother what's the point, and secondly we'd probably STILL know because the type of info that person usually delivers will feel off you know?

I'm sure it will be able to fool some, I just doubt it's gonna be able to fool everyone, and these things will probably get found out eventually. What seems more likely to me is them making short clips that make it look like someone is saying something offensive and people flying into a rage before vetting the video. THAT does worry me.

Pretty sure that's gonna depend on friends and family, it's hard to imagine that we can predict everyone's friends and family will not be interested in what they create. If you are just casually talking on stream, yeah maybe this is a good idea, since those people already know you and will find nothing novel about it. But if you make something artistic or that you really think is cool (comedy sketches, witty observations, etc) You're showing a side of yourself those people don't usually see, and if it's good and people genuinely like it, wouldn't your friends and family stick around to support it? I dunno this just doesn't feel like a "one size fits all" situation to me.