I assume this is targeted at things like the AI voiceovers reading random reddit stories or comments alongside generic video content, probably also AI generated.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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I fucking hate those videos, I'm so bad at recognising them from thumbnail and title alone and always get irrationally angry whenever I stumble into starting to watch one.
You won't believe what happens next!
My friend was just telling me about this recently. I've somehow completely avoided them so far.
You're lucky. It's so annoying. Especially when it feels like one someone actually worked on but didn't want to read themself. I don't care how much time you put into writing and editing if I have to hear it through a robot voice. I'd rather hear a shitty mic/thick accent, or whatever else is stopping them from just recording the lines.
I totally agree. That default robot voice on Instagram is one of the most grating things I've ever heard. It's total uncanny valley and I prefer the so-bad-its-funny older ones.
I never thought I'd miss Microsoft Sam.
I can't immediately think of a downside to this, but im sure there is one
False positives. The thing that YouTube is famous for. If someone posts useful original content, sooner or later they'll get some kind of false copyright strike or block.
YouTube still puts ads in demonetized videos, right?
Still costs money to host videos
It's a pretty clear conflict of interest that they do that IMO. It means they have direct monetary incentive to demonetize as many channels as possible so that they don't have to revenue share. It's pretty infamous how often creators lose their first day momentum on a video due to a false positive, but google actually makes more money from that happening.
On paper demonetizing crappy channels doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, but their track record is very poor with this kind of thing, and again they have a real incentive to make it create false positives (or at least not to prevent them) to increase their cut.