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If they’re using ai for the thumbnail… they’re probably using AI elsewhere in the video.

One does not automatically follow from the other. I simply use a screenshot from the video because I don’t care about views but for the people who do care, a good (as in makes people click) thumbnail is extremely important - perhaps eventhe most important. Making a thumbnail like that by hand is not easy, but with the assist from AI it is and most people don’t care. This militant anti-AI activism is by a small and vocal minority group of people. There’s no point in spending hours in Photoshop when AI does it better in 15 minutes and now you have 10 options to choose from.

I don’t like it nor do I usually watch those videos but I surely don’t blame them for doing it. It’s a ruthless game played on YouTube’s terms and this is what it takes if you wish to even get a chance as a small creator.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “it doesn’t follow.” It absolutely does.

If you use a tool for one specific task, and that tool is also useful for other, functionally identical tasks, you’re probably going to use that tool for the second task.

Like if a carpenter uses a Stanley #4 bench plane to finish a table top, they’re probably also going to use it for finish a cabinet’s top or side walls, etc.

Similarly, if a carpenter uses a jig saw to cross cut a board, it’s likely they’re also perfectly okay with using powered drills.

So if someone uses generative ai to create a thumbnail for the video, they’re likely to use it to create other graphics in the video.

If someone uses generative ai for those tasks, they’re also likely to use LLMs or other ai tools for other tasks.

Some one already using Ai is more likely to use AI again.

I don’t care whose fault it is, content creators aren’t entitled to my clicks. I have no obligation to click any video on YouTube, never mind watch the full thing.

If the thumbnail is ai slop, I have exactly zero reasons to believe the rest of it won’t also have ai slop. The creator can make whatever choices they want.

But I have no obligation to that creator. So when I decide that the use of AI is unethical, and pass on any video that uses it- that’s fully my choice. Similarly peole snarking on the comments or downvoting it… that’s also their choice. (I’m not even sure its legitimately a brigade. Knowing nothing else about the matter, I’m skeptical.)

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- Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As a heavy YouTube user this simply is not my experience. Not that it never happens, but it’s not the default to the point that you can just assume that. In most cases your assumption is wrong.
  
  Gaming YouTube is probably the clearest example. Everyone has an AI thumbnail and nobody has AI content in the video itself. Same applies to renovation, car mechanic, woodworking, machining, van life etc. Virtually everyone has 100% organic content but with an AI thumbnail.
  
  AI content only starts appearing when you move to videos that used to heavily rely on stock video content or for example videos about history where real footage is not available. I assume it’s also the case often with short-form media but I wouldn’t know as I don’t consume any.
  
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  - nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    As a heavy YouTube user this simply is not my experience. Not that it never happens, but it’s not the default to the point that you can just assume that. In most cases your assumption is wrong.
    
    Maybe it just depends on your viewing habits and what the algorithm pushes. I see loads of top 10 movie clips (e.g. sci fi movies on Netflix) in my feed that have an AI generated thumbnail and when I’ve viewed some of them there’s been no apparent AI use in the video.
    
    I am also seeing AI generated clips where the thumbnail doesn’t look AI generated. That one’s very annoying as I don’t want to watch AI generated videos at all.
    
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    Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    that have an AI generated thumbnail and when I’ve viewed some of them there’s been no apparent AI use in the video.
    
    That’s what I’m trying to say here as well.
    
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  - Frettchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Gaming is the lowest of YouTube content. It’s like those reaction videos.
    
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Frettchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So what you are saying the most important job of a creator is to create a thumbnail? So it’s not bad if a creator is using ai?

That’s like if a guitarist is saying plugging the strings is really important so I use ai for it. I am just a guitarist I can not do all

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- Fallibilist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  How is it that every time a comments starts with “So you’re saying…” it’s the followed up with something I did not say.
  
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