cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/423335

Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this: https://i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screenshot-20251118-150802.png

Scrolled down some more and this: https://i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screenshot-20251118-151325.png

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I’m just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use :)

OQB @Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works

  • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Not all of those videos are fully AI-generated, at least not entirely. (voices and video itself are real, script is AI-generated) They are still slop content, though.

    From what I can tell, most of the voices are real (you can hear changes in microphone types & background noises, reverb, natural stuttering, accent changes, proper tone, etc on many of them) but a lot of the scripts seem AI-generated, along with the actual face in the thumbnail, even when the voice is real.

    Most of the videos are being generated by a semi-large media generating organization who just pumps out algorithmically optimized videos. I did see a few, mostly from smaller creators, that were entirely AI-voiced as well, though.

    I think most of them were just copying the thumbnail design because it got clicks. Not uncommon on YouTube unfortunately.

    For anyone curious, the videos are basically just them scrolling through the websites of each, while reading off a paragraph or two of general information about what each is that has that sort of AI-generated tone and order to it.

    The video creation process is literally as simple as:

    1. Ask ChatGPT “write me a script for a short video talking about what Actual Budget is vs. Firefly III”
    2. Record yourself auto-scrolling slowly through the Actual Budget website, then the same for the Firefly III website
    3. Record a voiceover of you just reading word-for-word the script from ChatGPT
    4. Slap them on top of each other
    5. Clone the thumbnail from the other channels that got the most clicks, just like everyone else is doing, so now all of your videos look the same.