An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts
An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts
Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.
Eli Collins, a vice president of product management at Google DeepMind, first demoed generative AI video tools for the company’s board of directors back in 2022. Despite the model’s slow speed, pricey cost to operate, and sometimes off-kilter outputs, he says it was an eye-opening moment for them to see fresh video clips generated from a random prompt.
Now, just a few years later, Google has announced plans for a tool inside of the YouTube app that will allow anyone to generate AI video clips, using the company’s Veo model, and directly post them as part of YouTube Shorts. “Looking forward to 2025, we're going to let users create stand-alone video clips and shorts,” says Sarah Ali, a senior director of product management at YouTube. “They're going to be able to generate six-second videos from an open text prompt.” Ali says the update could help creators hunting for footage to fill out a video or trying to envision something fantastical. She is adamant that the Veo AI tool is not meant to replace creativity, but augment it.
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I'll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.
I set up a ublock rule to block shorts. Clutter and inane bullshit is all they are.
It's annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can't just turn them off
ublock can do that? I only watch my friends shorts to help them with views and thumbs, will it block the shorts if I go to the channel and view there, or only on main page?
It sure can. Click on uBlock's icon and choose the little eyedropper icon to enter picker mode. Then click on the shorts. In that window that pops up go to the part that says cosmetic filters and click on the top one. I don't remember exactly which one will remove the shorts but just scroll through those until the shorts are highlighted with a red box. Then click create. That should get rid of them. Until youtube changes the element, which they do. I've had to re-do it twice so far this year.
I'm not sure on your second question. You could try it and then delete it if you can't watch them.
Oh sweet, I'll be looking at that tonight. Thanks. If it blocks on their page I'll just disable, watch, reenable, but it sounds like this should only work on the main page. Thanks again
You can just import this filter list someone made. I use it and it's great!
I’ll just disable, watch, reenable
Yeah, that's way smarter than my suggestion. Glad I could help.
As a motherfucker with ADHD who keeps long form content running on the second monitor as god intended, you can eat my thicc-ass wagon.
Oh, quick question for you. Do you watch/listen to the videos at 1x, 1.5x or 2x?
1x because pitch shifting/fucked up audio annoys me.
Exception for certain tutorials where the narrator talks slow as fuck.
I have a buddy who can't stand 1x, he does 2x, I guess the pitch shift doesn't bother him as much. Thanks for the reply
And we're all very impressed.
What would Mr Rogers think of your comment
He'd dismiss the sarcasm and make it genuine, "Yes, Timmy, we really are very impressed. Good job, Billy!"
At the risk of sounding like the kind of edgelord I was calling out initially: Who?
No, seriously, that show was off the air before I was born. I only know what you're talking about because of this cliche'd line, I've never seen the show or anything. Has there really not been anything in the 23 years since they bulldozed his neighborhood that is wholesome enough to guilt me with? Has society really stagnated that much? Is your sense of decorum only anchored by a largely forgotten children's television show?
Correct answer was nothing, he's dead.
Well heck, that really is a much better retort. Well said.
Enjoy cancer content
What's so cancer about it?
Impossible to learn anything when you videos keep changing, no video control, mental and behavioural issues can result from constant short videos, loss of attention control, etc etc...
The issues keep expanding. Its cancer for the mind.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1298361/full
Enjoy your sense of smug superiority, I guess...?