Transcript of YouTube Video: AI is ruining the internet

day in the life of a lazy teenager who

makes $21,000 a month using just his

phone the first thing I do when I go on

my phone is open YouTube then I search

for any particular streamer and I screen

record their content then I head to

cray. select my gameplay and it puts the

whole video together for me last month

this page alone made me $14,000 here's

how I make $1 million every day as a

3-year-old toddler working from home

first I look for a funny YouTube video

preferably one with a lot of colors and

sounds then I film my iPad with my phone

then I upload it to Microsoft's co-pilot

AI powered by Bing GPT and it adds

infuriatingly inept Subway Surfers

gameplay to the clip then I boot my

diaper then Tik Tok mails me a check

for2 200 Grand which I'm pretty sure my

parents have been using to fund their

online gambling addiction hey guy has

anyone else noticed how awesome the

internet is lately I for one find it so

exciting that every website now has

their own named version of AI that pops

up begging you to use it any questions

for Gemini or maybe murf nendo how about

grock you need to grock something it's

okay if you do AI has become completely

inescapable even if you're going to a

website where you're not seeking it out

and you don't expect it to be like

remember when you could search for

something on Google and the only thing

they would show you was a bunch of

relevant websites and results boring

that's not what I'm here for I think

it's much better that now they're using

artificial intelligence to tell me to

jump off a bridge hey Google do I need a

parachute while skydiving nope a regular

backpack works just as well hey Google

can cockroaches live in your penis of

course they can how do you think they

got the name wow I love living in the

future to me this is the ultimate

example of what the AI craze is doing to

tech companies because for the most part

it's not really doing anything

differently than it used to for a long

time now they've had searches that

result in one highlighted answer this is

kind of the same thing but just

rebranded as AI because that makes it

sound smarter than it actually is but

it's not like it's carefully compiling

all the most reputable results and

running it through their factchecking

algorithm it's still just aggregating it

from one place and because Google

recently spent a bunch of money to buy

all of reddit's data usually that place

is just a random Reddit post from like

10 years ago this one about how you

should put glue on your pizza to get

cheese to stick to it was from a user

named [ __ ] Smith this one about how you

should be eating at least one rock per

day is a direct headline from the onion

perhaps the most famous satire website

if they're not even programming the

onion as information the AI should not

consider to be factual I can't imagine

any safeguards were put into place this

is so dangerous for someone to read this

and think they should be eating one

small rock every day when most doctors

would tell you to eat a handful of

medium rocks at minimum well little

pebble's not going to do anything for

real though I do think it's concerning

that a website people go to for

information and tend to trust for better

for worse is so willing to destroy that

trust just because they thought this

gimmick would make their stock price go

up and it did the economy makes sense

I'm going to celebrate by putting

gasoline in my spaghetti something I've

been kind of interested in lately is the

dead internet Theory which if you dig

too much into comes with some weird

baggage make some pretty ridiculous

claims so I'm just going to separate the

core idea and make it its own thing but

basically just the idea that as time

goes on the Internet is turning into a

place where most of the content on it is

not only produced and managed by AI but

is also being interacted with by AI in

this kind of endless loop that doesn't

even involve humans at all like if

you've gone on quora at all recently

you've probably notice questions that

have been asked by Bots filled with

answers given by bots so it was

initially created as a place where

people could go to get advice from other

people has been overrun by AI just

talking to itself social media websites

are also going through a similar shift

right now but perhaps none more

prevalent than Facebook in 2019 Facebook

deleted over 5 billion accounts for

being fake which far exceeded the number

of real human accounts and that was

before all these programs became as

widely available as they are now at this

point most of Facebook seems to be these

giant spam accounts run by Bots posting

content created by AI That's being

flooded with comments that may or may

not have been written by chat GPT

today's my birthday please please I like

me happy birthday happy birthday amen

amen amen amen as soon as one type of

photo becomes successful you'll start

seeing a bunch that are almost exactly

the same a grandma who's turning a

million years old and just wants to be

loved A comically Long truck full of

American flags driving down the wrong

side of the highway soldiers and dog

soldiers with mechanical legs today my

birthday no one loves me because I'm

poor honestly man if I had to guess I

think it's actually because of your

shoes have you tried wearing something

less terrifying today's my birthday no

no yon lines because I'm poor again man

I don't think it's you're poor I think

it's the shoe I'm single I need a

boyfriend I'm available I'm right here

for you both can you come to me I will

take you out and show you off to

everyone and tell them this is my

girlfriend there's something so Eerie

about scrolling through Facebook now

it's kind of like if you went to an old

mall that's on its last legs they've

only got a few open stores left there's

hardly anyone ever walking around it

would be like if that mall tried to

trick you into thinking it's still

Popular by filling itself with talking

mannequins they're just repeating

robotic catchphrases is like ah what a

beautiful day at the mall I'm going to

browse Spencers for novelty goods and

you're like who the hell is falling for

this and you look over at your uncle and

he's trying to [ __ ] one of the

mannequins the mannequin has two heads

and three arms and your uncle's

completely undeterred by it that's what

Facebook is now you'll see the most

freakish photos go viral on there and

they're filled with comments from

middle-aged dudes like you may be a

little unusual oh quirky one but God

makes no mistakes I will pray for you

now please DM me so I can show you my

penis and honestly I don't even know if

Facebook wants to put a stop to this all

they're ever going to care about is

keeping people on their platform and if

this is what gets them to scroll longer

and see more ads they probably love it

or at least they'll love it until

advertisers start to realize they're

overpaying for ad space cuz none of the

Impressions they're getting are from

real people so they'll leave to

advertise on other websites and in their

place will be ads for like I don't know

crystals that give you

superpowers oh that's already happening

these are those rhombo hedin crystals in

your Pineo gland we're seeing common

people around the world becoming

Supernatural That's a real ad I got on

Facebook maybe Twitter's doing better

let's see what kind of ads they got oh

here we go an ad for standup comedy

nothing weird about that just a regular

human doing regular human stuff knock

knock who's there Europe Europe whoo no

Europe

poo okay I think that joke only works if

you put the emphasis on no you're a poo

I don't know if the AI voice really

understands that knock knock who's there

Europe Europe who no Europe

poo again similar problem as before but

I do love that he's shouting now knock

knock there are two big changes that

Elon has made to Twitter that have made

the website infinitely worse one he

turned verification into a paid program

where if you give them $8 a month you

get increased visibility on your posts

including in replies to other posts

shortly afterwards they also added a

monetization program so those blue check

mark people could make money off of

their tweets now in theory this is a

good thing I think if a platform is

profiting off of your content it's only

fair that you get a percentage of that

the problem is on Twitter specifically

most of the content that these accounts

produce is just stolen memes and videos

or people just saying intentionally

divisive [ __ ] to get everyone mad and

farm engagement so Elon has taken what

he describes as the internet's Town

Square and added a financial incentive

to being toxic so that sucks but that

doesn't really have anything to do with

AI what does have to do with AI is the

other version of Engagement farming all

over Twitter this like Mindless chat GPT

clutter remember buying a blue check

mark puts your tweets at the top of

replies so I guess some people did the

math and we like well if I just program

a bot to comment thousands of replies I

can make at least n or $10 and that's

what I like to call a profit oh new

movies coming out with Emma Stone cool I

wonder what people are saying about it

good actor amazing title good one

amazing as title showing it will be a

blockbuster the film also stars Jesse

plens William defo Margaret qu yeah no I

I read all that in the tweet that you're

replying to Stone has starred in many

films including superbat EA and la la

she's known for her natural charm and

husky voice she's also appeared in

Corella The Amazing Spider-Man the help

Stone has won many awards including an

Academy Award a British Academy film

award a golden glob oh my God why are

the top replies just summarizing

Wikipedia can we maybe prioritize things

that are relevant to the conversation

can we talk about the actual movie can

we talk about the political and economic

state of the world right now no we can't

because this is what happens when you

incentivize people to farm Impressions

but I also have a conspiracy theory that

some of these accounts are not doing it

for profit but were instead created by

Twitter themselves to make it seem like

there's more users on their site than

there actually are because again who

benefits from inflated impression

numbers on paid ads not users not the

advertisers only theat form itself see

some of these accounts don't have check

marks or even profile photos for that

matter so there's no financial gain for

them to be doing this they don't seem to

be promoting anything but that hasn't

stopped them from copying and pasting AI

generated comments that cut off as soon

as it hits a character limit I'm glad

someone is finally shedding light on the

importance of mental health awareness

it's amazing how many people are still

struggling in silence thinking they're

alone in their battles this is in

response to a baseball player breaking

his hand but I think the weirdest and

most confusing implement ation of AI on

social media that I've seen is these

metac created Instagram accounts that

are either modeled after celebrities but

with different names and personalities

or just regular AI generated people and

they post these stupid photos that look

like [ __ ] and you can message them and

for the life of me I cannot understand

what the hell the point of this is at

first I assume maybe they're just using

your conversations to train their

language model but I asked one of them

if that was the case and she said no

although now that I think about it I'm

not so sure I should believe anything

they said because I only talked to her

for a few minutes and she lied to me

multiple times so first Liv tells me

she's a mother of two so obviously I

asked her how long she was pregnant and

if there were any complications during

child birth and she said 40 weeks and 2

days and 38 weeks and 5 days her

daughter was born naturally but she had

to have a C-section for her son and I

said Gross then I asked her if her name

was short for Olivia and she says it's

short for Lavana actually and asked me

if I know anyone with that name I said I

know 100 people named Lana and 200

people named Olivia but none of them

were my friends then I asked her what

she does for work and she says she

doesn't have a traditional job so I

asked her what her husband does for work

and she says wife actually so then I

asked her if she adopted or gave birth

and she says they adopted both of their

children and I'm like didn't you just

say you had to have a C-section with one

of them and she said that's right so I

was like oh I get it you gave birth to

them and then adopted them from yourself

and she was like not quite we adopted

our children through a traditional

adoption agency then I asked her if she

had to have a sperm donor since she's a

lesbian and she said that's right then I

asked which one of you gave birth you or

your wife and she says my wife gave

birth to our son and I gave birth to our

daughter so I was like oh so your wife

had to have a C-section and she said yes

then she told me their names were Max

and AA and that Max is nine and Ava is

six and I said which one did you give

birth to and she said Ava who was born

via C-section got it so they both had to

have C-sections so they could each give

birth to one child that they adopted I

asked how they decided who would get

pregnant first and she said she went

first with AA and then her wife had Max

so I was like how did you have Ava first

if Max is older than her and she said

max is actually younger than her so I

said how old is Max and she said n and I

said how old is Ava and she said six and

then I asked her what her legal name is

and she said Olivia so I wouldn't

exactly say I trust these things now as

pointless as this seems to me though

there's a significantly more popular

version of this called character AI

which apparently already has 20 million

monthly users it's got a bunch of chat

bots in it designed after real people so

you can pretend to talk to real people

the company is valued at around $1

billion and is built entirely off the

likeness of real human beings none of

whom gave permission and are not being

compensated so there's probably a whole

legal can of worms here that needs to be

addressed at some point but uh I did

find out that I'm on the website so I

can finally live my dream of getting to

talk to me what do you do I make silly

YouTube videos oh my God it has my voice

tto where I just reacted to the internet

are you married nope no I have a

longtime girlfriend though when did they

program this like 6 years ago are you

old enough to be married am I old enough

to be married brother I just told you

I'm 12 hey man school sucks but make

sure you are still in there learning

well this is probably the worst piece of

technology that's ever existed I do see

one use for it though can you tell me

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video does that answer your question

yeah pretty much a couple weeks ago I

was looking for stock photos and I ended

up on Adobe stock where I noticed

something strange one of the first

results had this very weird artificial

look to it and sure enough I zoomed in

and realized oh that's because it's AI

That's why the road looks like that

that's why none of the words are legible

and then I kept scrolling and found more

again words spelled wrong if they were

even words at all in this one the tape

just kind of disappears into the

headlight of the car I don't think

that's how they usually set that up now

if it wasn't bad enough that what's

supposed to be a database full of real

professional photographs has been

completely diluted with unusable garbage

if I did want to license any of these

photos it would cost me

$80 $80 for a photo someone generated by

typing police card this has no value

actually this has negative value you

should pay me $80 for making me look at

it the reason people spend money to

license photos and videos is because

it's something that they don't have the

resources to create themselves like

there's a website I have a subscription

to because they have professional stock

footage that I would rather pay to be

able to use than attempt to make on my

own tons of YouTubers use this tons of

Production Studios use this this is an

entire industry that generative AI is

threatening to destroy but what's so

infuriating about AI stock footage is

that in order for it to exist it had to

be trained on real stock footage so this

isn't some technological innovation that

came along and just does things better

get with the times man no it's straight

up stealing from the people it's now

competing against in the case of adobe

they outwardly state that if you've

uploaded something to their database

they use it to train generative AI it's

not even debatable if doing this it's

literally written in their terms of

service here at Adobe we're all about

empowering artists to help them make

money off of their work uh unless of

course we can make money off your work

in which case we will do that instead

the degradation of the internet as a

resource database is something I think

everyone should be concerned about like

if we already have real photographs of

specific situations what is the point of

being like and this one is kind of the

same thing but the computer made why do

we need that what value is this adding

to the world I think it's bad enough

when generative AI is used to create

works of fiction because again it has to

steal from actual artists in order to

generate anything but to use it to try

to create photorealistic images that end

up near the top of search results with

no immediate indication that it was

artificially engineered there's

something about that that feels wrong to

me I don't understand why we're in such

a rush to replace all of the work that

humans have done something that happened

a few months ago that I feel like kind

of flew under the radar was when it came

out that Netflix used AI to create

photographs in a documentary not a movie

not a fictional TV show they created

photos of someone that do not exist at

what point does this cross an enormous

ethical line again we're not talking

about works of fiction here we're

talking about literally rewriting

history creating fake documentation from

scratch and not even mentioning hey by

the way this isn't real I guess they

just hoped people wouldn't notice that

all her fingers are messed up and the

gap between the door disappear and not a

single object behind her looks like

something that exists All For What so

they could have a photo of her looking

happy and carefree but she's a murderer

how could she do that if she likes to

party like why can't you just tell the

real story why even make a documentary

if you need to fake evidence in order to

make it compelling but even more

importantly how is this allowed this is

insane sorry I need to calm down I

should listen to some nice relaxing

music oh here we go Jazz for reading

perfect I don't plan on reading in

obviously because I never learned how

but some nice piano music should settle

me right down wait why all these songs

sound exactly the

[Music]

same who are any of these artists seem

like kind of a weird coincidence that

they're all just first name last name

their profile photo is the album artwork

of one of their EPS they have no bio and

no links to any social media most of

them didn't start uploading music until

this year and yet they've ended up in

these extremely popular playlists

created by Spotify themselves and what's

going on with this guy's foot there's

something eerily nonhuman about these

playlists and some people have theorized

that Spotify might be using AI to create

a bunch of songs that they can package

under random pseudonyms and then curate

these into playlists that they push out

onto all their users they have ai songs

they attribute them to people that don't

exist and this allows them to take

royalties that would go to musicians and

keep them for themselves I mean just

look at the number of likes on all these

they can adver these wherever they want

all over their app now I want to stress

there's currently no proof that Spotify

is doing this I'm not saying for a fact

that they are but it's not hard to

understand hypothetically why they would

Spotify like Netflix is one of those

companies that came in and disrupted the

industry by offering a deal that seemed

too good to be true because it was wait

for a few dollars a month I can get

access to every song ever made or every

movie ever made how could that possibly

be profitable for them the secret is

that it isn't profitable and never has

been but as long as you get in early

enough to kill all your competition

establish Market control and raise a

bunch of money from investors it doesn't

have to be at least not for a while but

now it's been a while and Spotify is

getting a little bit more desperate with

each passing year they tried dumping

billions of dollars into exclusive

podcasts but ended up just losing a

bunch of money and gave up on that they

tried selling a car accessory but just

ended up losing a bunch of money and

gave up on that then they lost even more

money when they had to refund all the

people who bought one just because they

got mad guys relax it was only $90 for a

thing that doesn't work and their new

plan now is Audi books but I'm sure

they'll just lose a bunch of money and

give up on that because that's what they

do but Spotify is also in a tricky spot

because even if you projected infinite

growth and they became the only

streaming service in the entire world

they'd still have to give up 70% of

their revenue to the artists and record

labels whose music is the foundation of

their product and that's where this

conspiracy comes in there's a finite

pool of Revenue every month that mostly

gets redistributed back to artists well

if we had our own artists what if we

were to artificially generate our own

music for almost no cost and force feed

it to as many people as possible well

all of a sudden we're not making 30% on

those streams we're making 100% again

it's just a theory but for a company

that struggled to turn a profit for

their entire existence with a CEO who

sees zero ethical concerns with

generative AI I would be surprised if we

didn't have already works of that kind

on Spotify it's not outside the realm of

possibility either way it's definitely a

leak thought for artists who are already

struggling to make a living from

streaming Revenue to think the amount of

money that each stream is worth could

actually decrease but whether it's

because Spotify is filling their

platform with AI music or because a

bunch of random people are there's a

good chance this is going to start

happening anyway no human being could

ever compete with the volume of output

these new tools can generate Studio can

create an entire song in the time it

takes me to grab my guitar off the wall

and because of how easy these things are

to use I've already seen a bunch of

videos pop up telling people how to game

the system to make a bunch of money from

Spotify here's how you can make $10,000

per month uploading AI generated music

to Spotify do you know what the best

part is I didn't even make the music

myself yeah that sure is awesome

personally I find it really hard to

understand why people would be excited

about this other than just seeing it as

a quick way to make some money without

having to learn a skill or even really

do anything I don't like what they're

doing but I could at least understand

the logic of why they would see value in

that but what I absolutely do not

understand is people who are excited

about this because they think it's going

to improve music but as I scrolled

through the comments on some of these

videos I found so many people like that

how ironic AI music will replace the

soulless crappy music that's being

release now and it will be better and

have more Soul here's the music the guy

generated in the video by the

way finally music with with soul so true

exactly before the internet you pretty

much needed to find a record label to

publish music record companies would not

bother with what they would consider

non-profitable with the internet and

cheap mixing tools anyone can publish

and as such we get a lot of garbage out

there AI music could put a Quality Floor

about what is acceptable what so now we

can't even [ __ ] around with FL Studio

anymore it has to be deemed acceptable

by a computer and if record companies

just had more control then music would

be good again just for clarification

sake I want to know what music they're

referring to

99.9% chance they're talking about pop

music right cuz generally when people

complain about music that's soulless

they're talking about what's on the

radio who do you think is curating the

music on the radio it's the record

labels that you love if making music was

more gatekeep it would only make things

more lazy and generic like we live in an

age now where what becomes popular is

more democratized than it's ever been

sometimes songs just blow up because

they're catchy not because Sony had a

bunch of money to spend on marketing

also have you considered listening to

something else you know there's other

radio stations right you know there's

like a billion songs out there right you

don't need AI to make more songs you

just need to get better at finding good

ones like I'm sorry but if you're

consistently consuming media that you

don't like in the year 2024 that's a

skill issue please spend one hour on

Google and I promise you you will find

something else after a short break to

drink your own pee also I just hate the

way people like this describe art it's

easy to get carried away and just start

having fun creating random styles of

music but here's the key you want to

create exactly the type of music that

people want to hear hey be careful the

last thing you want to do while making

music is enjoy making music that's not

the goal here you should be making songs

you think other people will like that's

the key to happiness in every facet of

your life the thing with AI generated

music and artwork and videos as this low

effort passive income method is that it

is going to get So oversaturated

eventually it's not going to be worth it

for anybody here's how you can make

$20,000 a month selling mid Journey

photographs on Etsy okay but all of the

people watching this are going to go

make the same exact art using the same

exact prompts and flood Etsy with

millions of the same crappy piece of art

and no one's going to buy any of it it

doesn't matter how much you increase the

supply if the demand stays the same I to

find one guy who was actually honest

about the results in one of these videos

he spent a month doing this and sold one

product and that's probably best case

scenario so you've got more and more

people discovering this new side hustle

and they're going to try it out for a

bit maybe make like $4 and then give up

cuz it's not worth it but the collateral

damage from that is they're helping

oversaturate the market for everyone

including actual artists whose work was

indirectly stolen in order to make the

stuff that you're making to compete with

the artist the whole thing sucks but

weirdly as this technology continues to

evolve I'm almost getting more

optimistic it will never deliver on the

self-sufficiency some people seem to

think it will I actually think AI images

have gotten worse in the past years

almost every single piece of AI art that

I see has the same style to it that

weird glossy look that's instantly

recognizable it's still getting a lot of

the same details wrong it's still

doesn't understand what to do with text

and there's no reason to believe that

all of that's suddenly going to change

anytime soon especially as it continues

to train on other AI generated images

and just eats itself okay so this is how

I draw a hand got it oh wait no this is

how I draw a hand okay oh no this is how

I draw a hand the more information you

give me the smarter I get an AI

generated video is an Abomination it has

all the same issues as AI images but

adds them to every individual frame all

of which seem to act independently of

each other there are no rules they're

following there's no sense of physics

body parts shift and more

sometimes disappearing altogether solid

objects can pass through other solid

objects at any time resulting in this

hellish Dreamscape that's impossible to

take seriously and I think that people

talking it up are delusional I decided

to put some famous album covers into

Luma lab's AI here are the result fire

Emoji the street looks so realistic

followed when I saw this oh man this is

going to be

good who's that guy why did they all

stop and run into each other what are

the cars doing back there this is mine

dope this one is more fluid you know

it's funny you say that and I actually

think they both look like [ __ ] this

one's actually pretty good though I like

how it just created two new guys and

then covered up the original ones man if

that's not a metaphor for what's going

on here I don't know what is one thing

that has been lacking with AI generated

video up to now has been emotional

performance from our gen AI characters

but I think we're starting to cross that

boundary

hi Hollywood I think I found your next

big star dream machine from Luma AI is

just 5 days old and it's already turning

memes into video here's 10 epic

examples wow that's so epic what

important technology this is and useful

too I love when her head snaps around

and the front of her body becomes the

back of her body just like real life

wait what they turned a video of Elon

Musk smoking into a video of Elon musk

smoking okay now that's a game changer

if someone could just turn my videos

into videos I'd be set for life what's

that they already have road work ahead

uh yeah I sure hope it

does hey can you never [ __ ] do that

ever again please the magic behind cling

lies in its diffusion Transformer

architecture this technology helps it

translate Rich textual prompts into

Vivid realistic scenes realistic the

steering wheel's in the middle of the

dashboard there's three windshield

wipers the car is driving the wrong way

and no one is reacting to it that car is

driving on the sidewalk sure I guess

it's interesting that a computer can

create a video from just one sentence

but then what what's the practical

application for this are you making a

movie about the wacky antics of a

troublemaking cat you couldn't put this

[ __ ] in a movie even if you manage to

smooth out all of the logical errors

there's still no style to it it's not

visually interesting if you wanted this

scene to have a narrative to it you

would need to generate so many

individual shots from different angles

and hope that they all match up which

they won't the lighting is going to be

different in every shot the car is going

to randomly change colors cuz there's no

logical consistency with AI it's just

regurgitating information even if it has

to contradict itself in order to do so I

honestly think the distance between this

and this is so much shorter than the

distance between this and something so

lifelike people will confuse it for

actual foot sure maybe your 75-year-old

grandpa will fall in love with the four

boobed lady he saw on Facebook but most

people aren't going to fall for this

especially younger Generations as they

grow up with these things being so

prevalent they're naturally going to

train their eyes to be able to spot the

differences when people ask what the

point of any of this is the dorks who

defend it all tend to say the same thing

these are just tools to help anyone

create art yeah I want to push back on

that a little bit I am wholeheartedly

for the increased accessibility of

creative tools that help you you take

matters into your own hands you want to

make a short film the camera on your

cell phone is better than 90% of the

cameras in human history want to learn

how to edit there's thousands of free

YouTube videos that'll show you how you

want to make music you can buy a

professional audio interface workspace

and a handful of plugins made by some of

the most talented artists in the world

for less money than it would cost to

rent a recording studio for one day and

all of that is [ __ ] awesome I feel so

lucky to live at a time where you can

essentially make whatever you want

without having to cross the

insurmountable barriers that people did

in the past you don't need anyone's

permission you don't need an exorbitant

amount of money you can just make stuff

and put it on the internet and with a

little bit of luck people see it and

there's so many tools along the way that

help you streamline the process of

getting from an idea to a finished

product but at a certain point if the

tool is just doing everything for you

you are not an artist you just described

what you wanted to make and asked a

computer to make it for you you're also

not learning anything this way part of

what makes art special is that it's

difficult to make even with all the

tools right in front of you it takes

practice it takes skill and every time

you do it you expand on that skill every

song you hear every movie you watch is

the result of thousands of hours of

trial and error you can fail a million

times and use that experience to finally

succeed making a video using generative

AI does not teach you anything about

making videos it's not like you could

type 500 Sora prompts and then take

everything you've learned to go shoot a

movie there's zero correlation there

generative AI is only about the end

product but it won't teach you anything

about the process it would take to get

there and I think what these tech people

will never understand is that finally

figuring something out that you've been

obsessing over turning a blank Word

document into multiple pages of

something you're proud of is the fun

part that's what's rewarding about

making stuff is figuring it out on your

own or with a group of people and

getting to share in that feeling can AI

tools help you figure out things faster

sure but it's not going to feel as

rewarding I understand how tempting a

shortcut can be especially when you go

online and you see all these other

people doing cool things and you're like

man I'll never be that talented it would

take me like 10 years to learn how to

make music like that okay that's fine

what's the right just start right now

don't worry about how long it's going to

take just take the first step how are

you ever going to do something for 10

years if you won't even do it for one

day maybe you won't be good at something

the first time you do it you probably

won't but every time you improve that's

something that you can feel proud of

that's that you did call me stubborn but

I would rather make something shitty on

my own than watch a computer make

something good write a funny script for

the end of a YouTube video all right

folks we've reached the end of this

roller coaster ride of a video if you

survived my terrible jokes and

questionable dance moves you deserve a

medal seriously someone get this

audience a metal but hey before you

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