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20 points praveeninpublic | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.214s | source

While browsing YouTube, an AI-generated video appeared and I reflexively told my wife, “That’s AI—skip it.”

Yet I’m using AI-created illustrations for my graphic novel, fully aware of copyright and legal debates.

Both Copilots and art generators are trained on vast datasets—so why do we cheer one and vilify the other?

We lean on ChatGPT to rewrite blog posts and celebrate Copilot for “boosting productivity,” but AI art still raises eyebrows.

Is this a matter of domain familiarity, perceived craftsmanship, or simple cultural gatekeeping?

1. slowmovintarget ◴[] No.43807066[source]
The point of most AI-generated videos is as an attention sink. They're uploaded to get you to spend 30 or 45 minutes watching, and they're typically a mishmash of "points" loosely related to the title of the video. They are often very low-content, and do lots of "before we get to the point, let's backtrack over the history of Three's Company..." and then you get a rehash of the whole Wikipedia article on the topic with zooming still photos.

The style, when it is so obvious, becomes indexed in my mind with low-quality waste-of-time videos.

I blame the tool users, not the tool. The people sloshing these things up onto YouTube are deliberately flinging enough crap at the wall to get clicks. Imagine if they put some oomph into it. Focus on the topic, emphasize main points instead of having a monotonous litany that just sounds like facts strung together without logical connection. Have a point. Thesis, summary, argument, elaboration, summary, map to the thesis, conclusion... Or, if it's fiction, give me three act structure, or seven-point plots.

Otherwise, I'll continue to recognize, and discard what are literally garbage videos, generated by the thousands, to waste our time.