A short YouTube commentary (by Joe Fier) arguing that the recent surge of 'faceless' YouTube videos—where creators use ChatGPT for scripts, 11 Labs for voice, and stock/B-roll footage to avoid showing faces—is a transient trend. The speaker notes viewers can detect AI-generated pacing/voices and predicts audiences will revert to preferring authentic human connection.
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When it comes to, like, video on YouTube specifically, we're seeing this huge trend of faceless videos, right, where people are using AI tools to just quickly generate videos and put them on YouTube. Right? And they're, you know, you can spot them from a mile away if you are, you know. You know, AI, right? Like, I can spot, like, oh, this was 11 labs. You can sort of tell in the pacing of the voice. And like, okay, it might sound like a real person, but they're speaking very robotically, right? You can sort of pick that kind of stuff up. And we're seeing a lot more of these YouTube channels just like, have ChatGPT create a script, have 11 labs create the audio for the script, and then they're either using AI or like a storyblocks type site to go and overlay the whole thing with B roll never putting their face on camera. And I think that's a very sort of transient trend. I think we're going to see that happen for a small window of time. People are going to get sick of that kind of stuff, and they're going to want to connect with real humans again.