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.
An “avalanche” of… Videos with 6 second segments of weird B roll. Okay scary headline, I see you.
I’ll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.
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?
I set up a ublock rule to block shorts. Clutter and inane bullshit is all they are.
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.
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.
It’s already there.
Christ, the amount of channels I’ve had to block that are clearly just stealing clips from other videos, throwing them together and having BS narrative AI is crazy.
Example
https://www.youtube.com/@AgricultureTechUS https://www.youtube.com/@smarttechus
They spit out videos every day, with ridiculous AI generated captions. The shit the narrator says if you listen is just nonsense sales speak.
There’s so many of these channels
Good thing I have shorts blocked because they have always been useless
Once people can run this level of generative AI locally, there would be no need for YouTube to be involved. We could all generate our own shorts from a prompt.
