AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions
One of the most popular game youtubers Bloo And he has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes. But he’s not a human being – a completely virtual personality supported by artificial intelligence.
“I’m here to entertain my millions of viewers around the world and return to more,” Bloo said in an interview with CNBC. He said. “I am interested in completely good feelings and interesting content. I was built by people, but I was strengthened by AI.”
Bloo, Grand Theft Auto, Roblox and Minecraft, such as playing popular games such as 2.5 million subscribers and more than 700 million views with a virtual youtuber or vtuber.
Vtubers first won traction in Japan in 2010. Now, developments in AI make it easier to create Vtubers by feeding a new wave of virtual creators on Youtube.
The bright colors and the 3D physics were created by a Pixar movie or the virtual character, which looks like a Fortnite video game, by Jordi van den Bussche, a long -term Youtuber. Kwebbelkop. Van den Bussche, a 29 -year -old living in Amsterdam, said that he created Bloo after he found that he could not keep up with the demands of creating content. The job no longer matches the output.
“Apparently, the flaw in this equation, so we must remove people somehow.” He said. “The only logical way was to replace people with a photogeralist person or a cartoon. Vtuber was the only option and Bloo came from here. “
Jordi van den Bussche, known as Kwebbelkop Youtuber.
Courtesy: Jordi van den bussche
According to Van den Bussche, Bloo already earned more than seven income. Many vtuber, such as Bloo, are “puppet”, that is, a human being controls the character’s sound and movements in real time using movement or face monitoring technology. Everything in the Bloo channel from video small pictures to other languages is handled by AI technology from Openai’s Chatgpt Elevenlabs. Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. The long -term goal of Van den Bussche is that Bloo’s entire personality and content creation process is carried out by AI.
Van den Bussche has already tested videos produced by AI on the Bloo channel, but the results are not yet promising. The content does not perform because AI still lacks a person’s intuition and creative instincts.
“When AI can make it better, faster or cheaper than people, we will start using it permanently.” He said.
Technology may not be too far.
Start Hedra It offers a product that uses AI technology to create videos up to five minutes. He collected $ 32 million in a funding round in May It was ruled by the infrastructure fund of Andreessen Horowitz.
Hedra’s product allows users to create characters created by AI for videos and can add dialogue and other features. CEO Michael Lingelbach said CNBC is working on a product that will allow Hedra to create fully automatic characters that are self -sustaining.
Hedra’s Product Character-3 allows users to make reinforced numbers reinforced by AI, which can be realized in real-time.
Hedra
“We are doing a lot of research that accelerates models like character-3 in real time, and this will be a really good harmony for Vtubers.” He said.
Character-3 technology is already used by an increasing number of creatives trying new formats and most of its projects are viral. One of them is comedian Jon Lajoie’s Talking Baby PodcastHyper has a realistic animated baby who speaks to a microphone. The other Milla SofiaMusic videos created by AI is a virtual singer and artist who has seen thousands of views.
Talking Baby Podcast
Source: Instagram | Talking Baby Podcast
These content creations use character-3 to produce prominent content on social media and help them reach large audiences without the cost and complexity of traditional production.
The video produced by AI is a rapidly developing technology that reshapes that the content is made online and shared, which makes it easier to produce high quality video without cameras, actors or editing software.
In May, Google announced Veo 3, a tool that creates videos created by Voice AI.
Google, in June, reported that VEO 3 uses a subset of YouTube content to train. Many crews said that they are unaware of education, while experts have the potential to create an intellectual property crisis on the platform.
Unknown Ai Youters
Content constructors are increasingly finding more and more profitable ways to take advantage of the productive AI technology initiated by the launch of Chatgpt at the end of 2022.
A growing trend is the rise of unknown artificial intelligence channels. They are run by the creators who use these tools to produce video with artificial images and vocalities, and sometimes earn thousands of dollars per month without appearing on the camera.
“My goal is getting harder for how Youtube works, but it’s harder,” he said.
Goldenhand, who works with a small team, said that he has released up to 80 videos a day on the channel network. Some of them maintain a few thousand imaging per video, while others can suddenly be viral, and mostly a mass over 65 years of age can imagine millions of views.
Goldenhand said his content is a sound -oriented storytelling. He described Youtube videos as audio books that are matched by images and subtitles created by AI. He said that everything after the first idea was created entirely by AI.
He launched a new platform Tubechef, a new platform that provides access to the system to create a brazen AI videos starting from $ 18 a month.
“People think using AI means that you are less creative, but I feel more creative than ever,” he said. “It is not a joke to come with the idea of 60 to 80 viral video a day. Thought, where all efforts go now.”
AI Slop
As the content produced by AI becomes more common online, concerns about its effect increases. Some users are particularly convincing, but it is easier to create Fully AI-Fabricated videos, it is concerned about the spread of incorrect information.
“Henry Ajder, the founder of Latent Space Consultancy, which helps businesses navigate in AI views, even if the content is informative and someone can find it fun or useful.
Others are disappointed because of a large volume of the low effort, which leaves flows under water. Such materials are generally called “AI slope”-Yapay intelligence made using low quality, randomly created content.
Google Deepmind Veo 3.
Courtesy: Google Deepmind
“Slop age is inevitable,” he said. MetaThe owner of Facebook and Instagram. “I’m not sure what we’re doing about it.”
Although not new, the increase in such content has led to increasing criticism from users who say that it was more difficult to find meaningful or original material in applications such as Tiktok, YouTube and Instagram.
He said, “I’m actually tired of the AI slope.” User on x. “AI images are now everywhere. There is no creativity and effort in anything about art, video or writing when using AI. It creates disappointment.”
However, such AI content came to CNBC for supply and demand. Noah Morris, a creative with 18 unknown YouTube channels, has no reason to stop creating more.
Some argue that SLOP -like content always exists on the Internet, although AI videos still have natural artistic value and are much easier to create.
“Interesting content people did not prevent an obstacle,” he said. “Now there is more opportunities to create different types of content, but also more interesting content.”
