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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago

Facebook is already doing this with Vibes

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 hours ago

AI-only TikTok clone

so tiktok basically

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 32 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I was just thinking how great it would be if Google did the same and moved all the AI content from Youtube to a separate platform.

"Don't mind me, I'll stay with this old crappy human content, you go enjoy the cool ai stuff"👍

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I fear this will be an uphill battle for YT. I have this gut feeling that Meta and OpenAI here are employing the flooding the zone strategy to hurt and maybe displace YT. The sheer flood of slop with the occasional enjoyable nugget of content flooding YT from the pAIrates will be harder to filter out, clog up servers, and users like you and I will get annoyed and gradually consume less content. YT loses market share and some new platform can move in for the kill, operated by Meta, OpenAI and/or other such reputable companies. It's not easy to monetize this crap, which is a loss leader at this point. It doesn't look to me like enough people will subscribe to these services to be financially viable. They have to find other ways. So pivot to video 2.0 - this time with so-called AI! Sigh.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

Google is leading the charge with their own video AI

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 2 points 32 minutes ago

I'm not aware if they have announced a platform for this type of video. OpenAI and Meta have and that's what I meant.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

The app can generate copyrighted content

How are they allowed to do this?

it can ensure the content never leaves the app

Really? Isn't is pretty much standard for social media dwellers to screen cap everything they see?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

The app can generate copyrighted content

How are they allowed to do this?

They can't, based on their premise.

Either they actually can't copyright it because it's AI generated and only human output can be copyrighted, or they're actually using humans to generate the content, which kinda torpedoes the AI only aspect.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 hours ago

They ensure content never leaves by having it be so low quality that nobody will want to take it away.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why? Is it just to fuck up the planet with all the energy waste? What would be a logical explanation for this?

In 2024, in the eyes of Microsoft, they saw a demand for A.I. (from who or where, is another rabbit hole). And Microsoft bought a 20 year nuclear power contract. So 20-30 years from today that spent nuclear fuel is fuck that humans will have for infinity; instead of 100% of that nuclear power to have used for any other purpose (cities, battery charging, hospitals, food production, etc)... absolutely anything other than A.I.
Yup, so your answer is in the bottom of that rabbit hole, and it isn't a logical one.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Does anyone have an archive link for the original Wired article?

[–] dumfuq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Meta just launched a similar AI only short video app, Vibes https://about.fb.com/news/2025/09/introducing-vibes-ai-videos/. The bots are gonna have fun and VC is gonna lose a lot of money. I'll all for it.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 hours ago

Sure, throw more shit at the wall, maybe this will stick. I doubt it, though.

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Wrong com c/theonion

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Well, they clearly have too much money and have lost the thread. I can't imagine why I would watch such a thing.

I'm going to bet it's to provide training data more than anything.

[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You should not train on AI generated content.

Also, I expect older generations to fall for this.

[–] fcuks@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago

actually state of the art models do this all of the time, for example model distillation

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Well, they clearly have too much money

They may have a lot of money, but they definitely don't have anything close to a reasonable return on investment. I believe the total revenues from "AI services" are sub $50 billion per year compared to at least x20 times capex and likely a very high amount of opex (hundreds of billion) per year.

Then they have to do it right, everything is fake and all interactions are used to generate new content. Human comments are never shown just used as input.

[–] b3n3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What does „AI only“ know this context even mean? Only AI content?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Yes and also only AI watching it. Then AI will make statistics on it for advertiser AI to pay them per view.