An interesting recent phenomena is that regular Chinese people have figured out how to use AI to speak for them to make english language youtube videos. They are quite fascinating to watch, because you don't normally get such an unfiltered perspective. I think people feel safe posting these because nobody knows them in the west, whereas family, friends and govt. see Chinese social media. And of course youtube is banned in China.. Some of them make a few hundred bucks from Alphabet, this is a big deal.

Here are a few (check out the comments- working class people from around the world make contact):

https://www.youtube.com/@kangkanginchina7

https://www.youtube.com/@Chineseruralareas

Anyway, I view this as one of the more positive uses for AI.

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miohtama 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

(Not about this particular channel)

I enjoy these videos a lot, esp. if they are about history and engineering. Some of videos have really good production quality. I guess they are probably translated fron original WeChat etc. source material.

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mostlysimilar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Translation software and text-to-voice has existed for many years, why does AI make this any different?

	▲	jhallenworld 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well I'm grouping these under AI- they have been around a while for sure, but maybe they have reached some kind of critical mass there: I'm imagining people on Chinese social media talking about it as a way to make money. Also the text to speech is in their own voice. Some are using this as a way to help pronounce english (maybe there is some language training software available for this, I don't know).
	▲	talon8635 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		AI is easier, faster, better, and deeply widespread