Ricki Yasha TarrYUP, anyone else?
MFennVT has moved@RickiTarr Yep. That can make all the difference.
The FrogYep.
Fed up of the old British Gezer especially.
Anyway, if the voice is AI generated, so is probably the content... and AI generated content is very shallow.
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC@RickiTarr Same goes for any AI generated image to promote an article/story/website... I immediately assume that AI 'ass'istance has been used to generate it.
The only way to purge this worthless, climate destroying tech from society is to never use it, never use anything that does and reject everything connected to it.
Laukidh@RickiTarr For me, it’s the ones I can identify as AI voices.
aaron@RickiTarr
Niche but also any video on WhatCulture Horror that Ellie Littlechild narrates (I swear she mis-pronounces things just for the reactions)
Niche but also any video on WhatCulture Horror that Ellie Littlechild narrates (I swear she mis-pronounces things just for the reactions)
Mirco Blitz@RickiTarr totally. choose the correct audio channel on the settings cog lower left and after a while you get asked how you liked the automatic english transcoding.
Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕@RickiTarr Clicking on a YouTube video claiming to be a review or analysis and expecting to see some legitimate film critique, only to be met with a weird AI voice narrating a very obviously AI-generated summary of the plot, will be my villain origin story.
🦼Exiled NYer- ConnieI am neurodivergent and have difficulty with tones of voices.
Like my own, for instance. 😳
I guess I have a resting bitch voice?
My son walks in the room the other day and says, “Ma, why are you listening to that awful AI narrated piece?”
Whut?
nak@RickiTarr my employer’s required training courses are starting to transition to synthetic generated speech. So much harder to go through. The odd phrasing distracts me from the actual content.
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@RickiTarr annoying AI voice
Dr.Ubertrout@RickiTarr
Every fucking time.
Every fucking time.
Dr.Implausible@RickiTarr Nope, not at all.
If we take an empathetic view that the users of technology may have many reasons to want to use an AI-generated voice, including:
* being unable to speak
* have speech difficulties
* use English as second language
* may be uncomfortable with their speaking voice
* want to present in a way that matches their identity
* etc
then we recognize where the anti-AI claims are in fact ableist, and can pause to reflect on our own attitudes towards the tech
BeeCycling has moved@drimplausible @RickiTarr That doesn't mean the people rejecting the AI voice videos are ableist. it means as usual AI is ruining everything for everybody, because it's tainted the people using it for a genuine reason with the reputation for garbage low effort content.
Shawn Carter@drimplausible @RickiTarr If any of those are a reason, then the creator should collaborate with another person. I knew I wasn't great at editing on my podcast; I had a friend who was good do that and he got full credit for it. AI Voice for your listed reasons is just a person trying to cheat. 99.99% of those videos don't come from content creators, they come from content curators at best, thieves at worst.
They should be skipped without a downvote because a downvote is engagement.
Sin Vega@RickiTarr also idk if these are still in fashion but those "NOW THIS" style videos with text that should be a short paragraph is instead shoved over the footage five words at a time for several minutes
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@RickiTarr I can honestly say I have never experienced this, but mostly because YouTube annoys me enough to hit the back button long before the content starts playing.
Maximum Lobdegg@RickiTarr Honestly I prefer it to the obnoxious presenter voices video essayists like to use. At least the AI can't know any better and is actually a robot. When a human decides to try their best uncanny valley it feels excessive.
Just speak like normal people, please.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@RickiTarr There are _good_ AI voices today, the bad ones are an earlier generation. The good ones sound like actual human beings now, you won't even notice it's AI. They clear their throats, sometimes stumble over the pronunciation of a word, add in fillers, like, er, you know...
elverkonge@RickiTarr Also annoyed by construction hat wearing, face-making guy.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@RickiTarr Every time.
Voice-over work is a skill, we see that now.
The Life of Brian@RickiTarr It's always the voice for me. But I haven't noticed AI voices so I'll have to check. Swearing puts me right off, too. That's just not necessary, in my opinion.
Stefan@RickiTarr I watch lots of videos of red pandas on YouTube, and keep getting AI slop recommended, along the lines of "Five facts about red pandas", where the voice is AI, the content is AI generated (and often incorrect) and images are swiped from other videos I recognise.
I mark them as don't recommend channel, but I don't want to mark them as not interested because I can't specify why I'm not interested, and don't want to stop seeing videos on that subject. It's infuriating and frustrating.
@RickiTarr Stuff like that about all sorts of animals must be super-easy to produce, and lots of content about animals is appealing to kids too, so they can probably put out a dozen of them every day. Absolute leeches.
@beecycling YES 9 times out of 10 the information is bonkers
Seán Fenian@beecycling @RickiTarr There is more and more LLM-created garbage on the Internet. I have come across no evidence to refute the hypothesis that it is part of an intentional strategy to flood the Net with more and more garbage until nobody can tell what is true any more.
Jorge Candeias@RickiTarr It happened. Not very often, as I don't often stray off the channels I usually watch, but it happened.
The1goit @RickiTarr human narrator > regular tts > ai voice
Cosvak@RickiTarr it is insane how many people walk around and listening to bs with the same AI voice dumb ai voice. With their phones on full blast for everyone to hear.
I now have waking nightmares about discounted Cialis and Viagra pills because I fucked up and left adult swim on the TV when I fell asleep one night.
Frisco LaLa
Erik Ableson@RickiTarr My version is "sees 30 second ad roll starting" and leaves
Bart Veldhuizen 🚀
Shawn King@RickiTarr @tankgrrl Oh hells yes. Not just annoying AI voice but ANY annoying voice. For whatever reason, I’m “sensitive” to the sound of someone’s voice. If I don’t like it, nothing they say gets through to me…🤷♂️
It’s why I could never date someone from Long Island. 😂
Henning Paul DC4HP@RickiTarr WhoTF is watching Youtube videos with sound on?!?
John M. Olsen@RickiTarr That and/or rinky-dink music.
josie :3c@RickiTarr its so fucking annoying, especially the default voices (the ones i think ur talking about) are just an immediate "nope im outta here never again"
@josie YES EXACTLY
Kevin Hayes@RickiTarr @KingShawn especially when the voice has a mood completely opposite the subject of the video.
Jared (MOVED TO DMV.COMMUNITY)- AI voice: 100%
- Voice changer with real human behind it: I'm tuned in. People like vtubers and such. I get not wanting real voice out there, or being a character.
- Annoying/bad audio: Give it a shot, even more so if they're new/small. Audio is a PITA.
Comrade Weez@RickiTarr omg yes, I'm gone in under 30sec
Lulu Helle 
@RickiTarr this, but also with horrible music being played far too loudly over a video for no reason. I have sensitive hearing and that shit hurts!
Salty@RickiTarr @LoganFive Or has shitty AI-generated and entirely unnecesary soundtrack.
Logan Five Thousand@david @RickiTarr YES! What is with the unnecessary soundtracks???!!!
@LoganFive it's always shitty thwack-thwack oontz-oontz
Mark IJbema@RickiTarr nah, I already close YouTube when the ads start playing
Robert Wiltshire@RickiTarr Yup. With you on that. Hate the AI voices.
Rik D'huyvetters
Tess Arnold
Claudius@RickiTarr @eppfel #YouTube needs to bring back the public display of thumbs-down votes. AI narrated videos would sink to the bottom of the ocean immediately.
internetsdairy@RickiTarr Started seeing them now with an AI person (a Fox-news blonde looking woman mostly) in vision.
Anna@RickiTarr So many missed learning opportunities!
Michael Dexter@RickiTarr It pains me to say that an AI voice that reads the closed captions would be preferable to some humans.
Amber 
@dexter @RickiTarr anything but the tiktok lady. anything. i beg. i will listen to microsoft sam. just not the tiktok voice
@puppygirlhornypost2 @RickiTarr (Has flashbacks to the early Apple “Hindu in an oil drum” voice)
*shudder*
@dexter @RickiTarr Okay, I take it back. There are two voices I do not want to hear.
Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
@RickiTarr text to speech has always been insanely annoying, and now we got AI voices that try to sound human, but they always get something off that’s somehow even more grating than just text to speech
please just use on-screen subtitles if you don’t want to use your voice, i promise you people can fucking read