[alexb_]

This sounds like it would absolutely ruin the internet as a resource for how-to videos. When anyone can use massive amounts of data scraping and underpaid labor to make extremely low quality videos and spam youtube with them, actually half decent how-to videos will get completely lost. Not to mention, you can just put something completely wrong on without making it immediately obvious.

Imagine Roel Van de Paar[1] except anyone can easily do it and the quality isn't so bad that it gets lost in the algorithm.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/roelvandepaar

[marban]

The problem is already imminent — Just search for anything on YT and order by latest first. 99% garbage.

[brudgers]

Then consider the internet ruined, auto generated how-to videos exist on Youtube and elsewhere (probably in much greater numbers than easily spring to mind). I see them from time to time in the long tail. But I suspect mostly the search algorithm deals with spam reasonably.

[mkl]

There are tons of low-effort text-to-speech how-to videos on YouTube already, so I think that's a battle already being lost.

[TekMol]

What happened to Van de Paar? It seems he stopped his video creation frenzy 10 days ago?

[marban]

Perhaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI was the reason

[pbprabhuram]

Omg you completely got it wrong, the focus here is to create support, training and educational videos without spending much money or effort.

[mkl]

Cheap low-effort AI-narrated training videos are exactly the problem alexb_ is referring to. WowTo seems like a good tool for that, so if YouTube spam isn't what you're intending, how would you control what people use it for?

[geoduck14]

Imagine you are a plumber that needs to onboard new people at your work and they need to know how to do a plumbing thing. Turn over is pretty high and teaching each and everyone of them yourself takes a lot of time - so you make a video.

[mkl]

Sure, but just because good valuable videos are possible doesn't mean it will only be used for that.