The video definitely wouldn't be over 50m if she was targeting views. 11m -15m is where you catch a lot of people repeating and bloviating 3m of content to hit that sweet spot of the algorithm. It's sad you can't appreciate when someone puts passion into a project.
This is the damage AI does to society. It robs talented people of appreciation. A phenomenal singer? Nah she just uses auto tune obviously. Great speech? Nah obviously LLM helped. Besides I don't have time to read it anyway. All I want is the summary.
> It's sad you can't appreciate when someone puts passion into a project.
It is sad that read comprehension is dropping such that you interpreted my comment that way.
Yes, I do want the summary because my time is (also) valuable. There is a reason why book covers have synopses, to figure out whether it's worth reading the book in the first place.
I don't consider AI to threaten "damage to society" the way you seem to, but I did find it interesting to think about how ridiculously well-produced the video was, and what that might signify in the future.
I kept squinting and scrutinizing it, looking for signs that it was rendered by a video model. Loss of coherence in long shots with continuity flaws between them, unrealistic renderings of obscure objects and hardware, inconsistent textures for skin and clothing, that sort of thing... nope, it was all real, just the result of a lot of hard work and attention to detail.
Trouble is, this degree of perfection is itself unrealistic and distracting in a Goodhart's Law sense. Musicians complain when a drum track is too-perfectly quantized, or when vocals and instruments always stay in tune to within a fraction of a hertz, and I do have to wonder if that's a hazard here. I guess that's where you're coming from? If you wanted to train an AI model to create this type of content, this is exactly what you would want to use as source material. And at that point, success means all that effort is duplicated (or rather simulated) effortlessly.
So will that discourage the next-generation of LaurieWireds from even trying? Or are we going to see content creators deliberately back away from perfect production values, in order to appear more authentic?