• anachrohack@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes I’ll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching

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      4 months ago

      But why?

      Like sure some of the voices are not great but the words being said are the thing I’m interested in and not the person / machine saying the words.

      Each to their own and all that, I’m just curious as to why you just stop watching something you were seemingly enjoying.

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          4 months ago

          Signals to me that maybe the creator isn’t comfortable with their voice or maybe they can’t speak or have a stutter, but they still have something to say.

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            4 months ago

            Recognising the “AI voice” isn’t just the voice. It’s also the clearly “written by AI” circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait “but wait until you find out what the answer is” crap.

            The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn’t to transfer knowledge, it’s an art form, I don’t need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.

            So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don’t like their voice, or speak a different language, I don’t know, I’ve literally never heard them. It doesn’t stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don’t need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.

            I’d like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.

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        4 months ago

        Watch time is pretty important on YouTube afaik, initial clocks themselves don’t count for that much