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An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I set up a ublock rule to block shorts. Clutter and inane bullshit is all they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh sweet, I'll be looking at that tonight. Thanks. If it blocks on their page I'll just disable, watch, reenable, but it sounds like this should only work on the main page. Thanks again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You can just import this filter list someone made. I use it and it's great!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I’ll just disable, watch, reenable

Yeah, that's way smarter than my suggestion. Glad I could help.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can't just turn them off