He Earned $9,000 in a Month Posting AI Slop on YouTube

📝 From a recent NPR story about AI slop YouTube channels…

FUNTASTIC YT… hosts dozens of videos in which an animated kitten has a brief, often nonsensical, misadventure.

Regarding one video on the channel…

The video has all the hallmarks of being made using AI: It’s got colorful, simplistic animation and computer voiceovers. Still, though it barely has a hint of a plot, it’s funny, relatably goofy — and it’s been seen over 2 million times.

The channel has ~600K subscribers, first video published last October 🚀

NPR tracked down the guy behind the channel…

Garilao is a 21-year-old college student … in the Philippines, where he studies computer science. He said he produces one or two clips a day, all with a similar theme revolving around the kitten and his father. 

Each takes one or two hours to produce, using ChatGPT to render the characters, KlingAI to create video, and other software to edit…

“The highest I made was in the month of May. I made $9,000 in just one month,” Garilao said. For perspective, that adds up to more than a year’s salary in the kind of entry-level job he said he can expect when he graduates.

With so many views and subscribers, clearly there’s an appetite for this kind of content 👍

And we’re likely still in the early days of it.

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