Every time I go on X I see this, and I actually highly disagree
First off, I've made a handful of multi-million dollar YouTube brands, and have never been demonitized once.
I think it's obvious that AI content will at some point, corrupt every social media to the point where social media will simply become a thing of the past, unless some great innovation changes this. It will become impossible to distinguish real from fake, AI influencers from real humans, AI songs from real music etc.
In my opinion, this is not a hypothetical; it's a matter of time.
YouTube understands this and can also determine a timeline for how things can actually pan out.
In the short term, it's clear AI lacks "taste". Especially in music, it fails to determine what is actually good, and simply bases its understanding on the sum average of what it's been trained on. Because of this, human creativity proves to be far superior.
Right now, based on everything I've seen, YouTube continues to reward this creativity. Channels which create new genres, or innovate in great lengths
A) never get demonitized, but
B) seem to be heavily favored and have a much easier road to getting high and stable views per video.
Channels that simply follow along, or dance between the lines of AI content or low-quality human content, get punished, which I feel is rightfully so.
People who juggle between 15 YouTube brands at once seem to also consistently get punished, probably because they don't particularly care to uphold this creative integrity on every one of their channels.
In the long term, reputability will be the last form of media to survive. Big names that have already been established pre-ai will become the only trusted sources of authority, and really the only ones whom every viewer can agree is real and not some generated nonsense.
So, when YouTube highly discourages these brands that clearly don't have the vision of becoming a large team, long-term production company, it should be a
sign that AI is a bigger issue than people realize.
Obviously, it's not in YouTube's best interests to simply delete channels that massively benefit their platform.
Moral of the story is to use these signs as a tell that you need to make big, established, and unique brands, as those will be the last ones left.
@okolie_jer38669 I have made youtube videos since 2014, and gained over 20m+ subs on faceless channels.
I've never gotten demonetized once. The issue is quality.
@Bazerks There’s very few elite automation channels and all are in completely separate niches, that’s always a option. Once you find motivation in a game bazerk will always be there
@Bazerks the good thing is you have proof on your channel that you can switch to any popular game and do quite well
if fortnite doesn't give motivation, you have so many different avenues to possibly take even if that means new content, new channels, ect