For a few days, hundreds to thousands of YouTube channels, making AI faceless channels are being demonitized, and there was a channel earning $30k monthly demonitized as well.
This is solely because these creators are now leveraging AI tools to mass produce contents which are meant to farm the YouTube creator's revenue.
Talking about farming an infinite reward pool, I think it'll only become inevitable that the moment we get more AI tools, more creators will become lazy, but because they want to continue earning, they'll make low effort content leveraging on AIs instead of actually using them an assistance, they'll use it as the full stack or source of creation.
Imagine $10B in actual YouTube revenue wiped out from creators using mostly faceless and repetitive contents leveraging AI and all. I was on Twitter checking the reaction of some demonitized creators and a lot of them are very disappointed.
They probably thought they had YouTube figured out, they no longer had to use real tools, just automate it all, get 4k watch, get monetized in less than 2 weeks and earned money. Unfortunately for some of these people they actually worked hard uploading a lot of these stuffs and right when they qualified to get their first payment, boom!
They got hit with the ban message, while those who were already on subsequent monthly payments got outrightly demonitized and piled up payment were blocked for many of these channels..
First thing that came to my mind was, if these massively produced contents are actually being used for marketing by YouTube why do they care if they're reused or massively produced?
It's simple: these marketing are targeting real users, real people and audience that are willing to pay for them, and most times this only happen with realistic human contents or contents with a touch of human expression with real scripts and some form of work being out into them.
Secondly I also feel that YouTube is probably trying to be stingier with their payment systems and do not want creators to turn their platform to a farming system and churning out countless contents with the aim to farm views and engagement.
They're also targeting channels that are churning out a lot of contents on a daily and cracking down on them. Third I think YouTube does not want to simply turn to a 100% AI content platform.
While they're not completely demonitizing AI creators, they're most doing so for those who aren't putting efforts into creating and they've included this in their newly created creator's program.
It's safe to say that no one actually want a platform with low quality contents, or contents without some form of efforts.
I remember when Hive started a campaign against contents as these, but some of the low effort creators said the blockchain was chasing away potential creators.
You'd think some of these demonized creators are going to leave, but no, they won't, they'll probably find a way to make better contents and get back at the game, at least, I think 50 to 70% of them will do this.
While Hive and YouTube are two different platforms, I do think cracking down on low effort content isn't that issue, the problem is actually having enough revenue to go round. This is why in my own perspective I think Hive needs some of these external revenue systems.
