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Mark Lawrence I Garilao
- YouTuber
📝 From a current NPR story about AI slop YouTube channels…
FUNTASTIC YT… hosts dozens of movies by which an animated kitten has a quick, typically nonsensical, misadventure.
Concerning one video on the channel…
The video has all of the hallmarks of being made utilizing AI: It’s bought colourful, simplistic animation and pc voiceovers. Nonetheless, although it barely has a touch of a plot, it’s humorous, relatably goofy — and it’s been seen over 2 million instances.
The channel has ~600K subscribers, first video revealed final October 🚀
NPR tracked down the man behind the channel…
Garilao is a 21-year-old school scholar … within the Philippines, the place he research pc science. He mentioned he produces one or two clips a day, all with an analogous theme revolving across the kitten and his father.Â
Every takes one or two hours to supply, utilizing ChatGPT to render the characters, KlingAI to create video, and different software program to edit…
“The best I made was within the month of Might. I made $9,000 in only one month,” Garilao mentioned. For perspective, that provides as much as greater than a 12 months’s wage within the sort of entry-level job he mentioned he can count on when he graduates.
With so many views and subscribers, clearly there’s an urge for food for this type of content material 👍
And we’re doubtless nonetheless within the early days of it.
