AI generated video ideas, AI generated thumbnails, AI generated comments from the viewers, AI generated comments from the creators…
I mean, AI already gave me the ick but this is super extra ick.
Youtube is going to be 100% over-run with absolute garbage, and there’s going to be zero way to determine which content is human and not and it’s going to completely make the platform utterly worthless.
It feels like the most urgent things to figure out how to make viable are things like Loops and Peertube, even over 160-character hot-take platforms or link aggregation or whatever, since the audience is SO much larger, and SO much more susceptible to garbage.
The same place a lot of it is now: patreon, merch, and in-video sponsors.
Sure you lose the Google adsense money, but really, that’s pretty minimal these days after constant payout cuts (see: everyone on youtube complaining about it every 18 months or so) but the bigger pain is reach.
If I post a video on Youtube, it could land in front of a couple of million people either by search, algorithm promotion, or just random fucking chance.
If I post it on my own Peertube instance, it’s in front of uh, well uh, nobody.
That’s probably the harder solution to solve: how can you make a platform/tech stack gain suffient intertia that it’s not just dumping content in a corner and nobody ever seeing it.