An experiment what do you think? Good or Bad?

[Nimos]

I would like to hear people's honest opinions about the video below, so don't be shy just rip it a new one if you like

Everything in the video is created by an AI. The only thing I told it, was to create a video about this specific topic and that it should be factual. Everything that is said and done in the video is by the AI, I did change a few of the clips shown.

The purpose of the post is not so much the video itself, but rather that I personally know nothing about stress and how to deal with it, I haven't fact-checked anything.

Does the video present itself as being truthful?

Can you hear that it is an AI speaking and not a real human?

Given this is my first video ever made with this tool, it took a bit longer to make around 1-2 hours from start to finish. How do you think this could affect Youtube and in general information on the Internet when people can release videos and text that take no effort to make and about topics for which they have no knowledge and purely rely on the AI being correct?

 

[ChurchofDeanne]

This is an interesting topic, one I am sure we will be discussing for a long time. I often rely upon AI tools to streamline my workflow. For example, I have used Google's text-to-speech API to produce narration for the educational videos on my church's website. The narration here is much better. In my own experiments with artificial intelligence, I have found the available models woefully inadequate, requiring a great deal of wrangling and micromanagement. The technology simply hasn't come far enough yet. I wonder, as more people begin to rely on AI, will we develop a greater ability to discern between human-generated and AI-generated content? Those who are unfamiliar with the technology will surely have a harder time distinguishing between them. Science and technology must continue to develop and advance for the well-being of our society. But how can we trust the motivations of those controlling the development and regulation of this powerful technology? It seems as if it is almost too late to prevent this technology from being weaponized. Meanwhile, the loudest voices advocating for the regulation of AI seem to be the same people who would benefit the most from privatizing AI. The future of corporate video platforms is not really a concern for me, so I can't comment on YouTube's prospects. I hope rational people would recognize the widespread presence of misinformation across all human media, not just in virtual form but in every aspect of media. That particular problem does not seem to have a solution.

 

[Nimos]

But how can we trust the motivations of those controlling the development and regulation of this powerful technology?

That is obviously one of the huge issues, that I think many people are not really aware of.

Depending on what these AI's are training on and what they are taught by those making them, they can manipulate what information people are exposed to without us being aware. This could be a certain religious or political view, or it could be a corporation "flooding" the information stream with biased content about their products.

If ever, the statement "Information is power" is true, it is very much so now as we are entering an age where AI can and will dominate information flows. This was also what I tried to demonstrate with the video, even though it was possible before, it is so easy now and can be done at an alarming rate, that we could risk and should expect a flooding of misinformation.

Meanwhile, the loudest voices advocating for the regulation of AI seem to be the same people who would benefit the most from privatizing AI.

There will be no regulation of AI that will be worth anything, no country or company will lose this fight. And even if certain countries should do it, it doesn't prevent other countries for not doing so.

The future of corporate video platforms is not really a concern for me, so I can't comment on YouTube's prospects.

This relates to the first topic. YouTube will be fine, but a lot of information such as debates, etc. are on YouTube, yet these types of information can be equally manipulated. And none of us have time to validate all the information we hear, the best we can do is to be skeptical about it if it sounds too good to be true.

But we also know that it doesn't take much for people to accept conspiracy theories and run with them, just look at how many did this with Covid.

 

[MikeF]

I would like to hear people's honest opinions about the video below, so don't be shy just rip it a new one if you like

Everything in the video is created by an AI. The only thing I told it, was to create a video about this specific topic and that it should be factual. Everything that is said and done in the video is by the AI, I did change a few of the clips shown.

The purpose of the post is not so much the video itself, but rather that I personally know nothing about stress and how to deal with it, I haven't fact-checked anything.

Does the video present itself as being truthful?

Can you hear that it is an AI speaking and not a real human?

Given this is my first video ever made with this tool, it took a bit longer to make around 1-2 hours from start to finish. How do you think this could affect Youtube and in general information on the Internet when people can release videos and text that take no effort to make and about topics for which they have no knowledge and purely rely on the AI being correct?

Holy cow, that was a computer generated voice? It had incredible inflection and delivery! It sounded like a youngish voice actor to me. The pacing was uniform and quick, however, as you might get with extensive editing of a natural voice. I wonder if it could be made to sound like a real person giving a lecture with accompanying slides? I would be surprised if it could, but who knows, maybe we are there.

The images were all stock stuff, right? The AI didn't create the images of people from scratch, correct?

 

[Nimos]

Holy cow, that was a computer generated voice? It had incredible inflection and delivery! It sounded like a youngish voice actor to me. The pacing was uniform and quick, however, as you might get with extensive editing of a natural voice. I wonder if it could be made to sound like a real person giving a lecture with accompanying slides? I would be surprised if it could, but who knows, maybe we are there.

The images were all stock stuff, right? The AI didn't create the images of people from scratch, correct?

Basically, the software allows you to choose between different voices, but you can clone any voice as long as you just have a few minutes of it. How it decides to deliver it, meaning tone of voice where to put the pressure etc. I have no clue.
The video I created was originally 10 minutes, but I thought it was way too long so asked it to cut it down to what it is now.

If I understand you correctly, I think it could give a lecture simply following slides, it might not be perfect at the moment, but things are happening so fast that it is insane.

This video is quite interesting (Keep in mind that this is 5 years ago):

This one is pretty crazy as well, based on your voice the AI can detect whether you suffer from diabetes in a few seconds (only work for men, there is an explanation for that in the video)

So stuff is going so fast, that it is almost impossible to keep track of.

I don't know if this is related to AI or not, but some technology they are working on as well, which allows cloth to change color on the fly, which I just think is funny.

In my video, the AI is hooked up to stock photos, but you can also use your own and if you pay for it, there won't be any watermarks etc. Given I used the free version, there is also a limit to the amount of images available. But again, besides just switching out some images and telling it to make it short, the AI created everything and chose the images based on the topic, so even the images I switched were relevant to what it was saying, I just liked others better and simply to try it out.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I would like to hear people's honest opinions about the video below, so don't be shy just rip it a new one if you like

Everything in the video is created by an AI. The only thing I told it, was to create a video about this specific topic and that it should be factual. Everything that is said and done in the video is by the AI, I did change a few of the clips shown.

The purpose of the post is not so much the video itself, but rather that I personally know nothing about stress and how to deal with it, I haven't fact-checked anything.

Does the video present itself as being truthful?

Can you hear that it is an AI speaking and not a real human?

Given this is my first video ever made with this tool, it took a bit longer to make around 1-2 hours from start to finish. How do you think this could affect Youtube and in general information on the Internet when people can release videos and text that take no effort to make and about topics for which they have no knowledge and purely rely on the AI being correct?

It's going to be hard telling reality from fiction for starters. Already there is enough where a number of people cannot tell anymore what is real and what is ai generated.

 

[Nimos]

It's going to be hard telling reality from fiction for starters. Already there is enough where a number of people cannot tell anymore what is real and what is ai generated.

Exactly and the technology is only going to improve.

AI is still in the very early stages, it's like the first mobile phone just hitting the market and people are extremely impressed

I would lie if I weren't concerned for the elderly people, who got knocked out by emails and SMS, now they have to deal with AI talking like humans as well.

The number of cases of people getting scammed is going to explode and I honestly don't think the police can do anything about it, because it will take forever to investigate these cases.