Not gonna lie, for a minute I wasn't sure if it was a joke sponsor. Like: "This video sponsored by birch. Birch, It's a tree". That being said...why is "non-toxic" the main adjective here? I mean the ad read clarifies, but it's a bit of an expected quality, I would think
Maybe you can teach me how to write a book. Because I’m writing a book called This is the Way: how the entertainment industry encourages toxic fandom for profit and is harming the industry. And my mind is a scrambled because I have autism and I want a second writer. My goal of the book isn’t for money but to enlighten people. Sure be mad at black Aerial people but be quiet around whitewash in fate the Winx saga which is true.
“She was a young woman who was killed in a freak accident and lived to tell her own story” Absolutely killed me. And I don’t know if I’ll live to tell that story.
The conspiracy theory part is priceless. Although, to be honest, I love all of it. It made me chuckle a little bit and smile. Man, you can tell an ai wrote this, and it is crazy to think that we got to a point where we can have a program that can make video scripts. Also, videos, in general
Ah yes...my favorite children's book: The Grapes of Wrath. That AI essay was an ride from start to end. I'm amazed you could read all that with a straight face Gotta admit that "the future is shit" line hits though.
"He could dedicate more time to his writing. But he's not a writing teacher, he's an English teacher; he doesn't give a shit" had me laughing so hard. Really kind of sums up the way the school curriculum treats literature. If only more teachers had your special chairs that can hold hundreds of students instead of just giving students access to a train, we wouldn't have these problems :(
@@machinedramon3532 There was no train. Just a bunch of thoughts driving in individual cars, getting stuck in a traffic jam on the Information Superhighway...
5:53 - 6:12 "In this video I'm going to be talking about puns, specifically the concept of puns. So puns are basically a form of punning. They're also a very bad joke. If you're tweeting at someone and they're trying to apologize for that tweet, then you better apologize for it. People are afraid of puns, they're afraid of the uncanny valley." This sounds like Vsauce went insane and is talking to you through a paper mario text box. this essay is the funniest thing I've seen all week.
"When the wind blows in the summer sun and the mosquitoes fly by like raccoons, like squirrels..." Ah yes, this time of the year again. This was hilarious, thank you Zoe.
ngl, i fully support more video essayist letting an algorithm chop and screw their content into a new nonsensical essay and just. reciting it with a straight face whenever theyre burnt out or just dont have time to write a new essay.
I support the logical conclusion of this, where they also use voice AI and AI generated images instead of acting it out too. zero irony. Feed the algorithm without overworking.
If you're working with this on in the background, it almost makes sense for a little bit until it says something obviously nonsensical. It's kind of like the narrative equivalent to elevator music.
This journey was fantastic. There were sections where it was obvious that the essay was written by an AI, but there were other times when I almost missed the fact that it was a production of the AI and assumed it must have been written by a human, only to hear some more utter bullshit again and realizing it was unquestionably written by an AI. Great Video
SO many gems in this. I especially liked "Just give them food and a place to sit down and be quiet." It's like, "oh, so that's why you bite the hand that feeds you."
@@Pandor18 while the wild ride would have totally given us all whiplash, the title giving it away might have made it more predictable (as in we could expect the incoming chaos). Still I fucking approve 😂
@@M3G4FR34K I even think about it, the tittle would be "what is reality?" and I think there is a special filter since the AI began to talk, so erase that too
"I am the ghost of a dead oak tree Arching amok through the gaps between now and the next moon shining noiseless on the horizon" That was amazing though, I love it. 🤯💖
As somebody kind of dabbling on poetry who has been a forever 2d artist, and I sing snd write lyrics a bit, I’ve been having more fun and feeling less intimidated by taking a simple subject or something i have a very deep level of familiarity is and play with literary devices, different kind of formats, seeing the way a pretty poem also reads aloud well, and tropes. That whole last bit, I actually think at least on the ears (like say im somebody who hardly understands English listening and then see a mediocre translation of what it means- I would be obsessed with it. It reminds me of some kind of impossible deluzzian emerald tablet, and on the subject of Giles i love that waxing poetic metaphor style of “bodies without organs” perhaps even “ghost in the shell” or in the fungicore tradition to keep it pertaining to nature “when death becomes you” If it was edited a bit and circled around a more obvious concept or narrative and generally more cohesive that would be a really fun little free verse poem. Lyrics and producing can definitely just be like that and if the concept/mood is strong and the productions, c progression, tone etc are well done and it’s just trying to be that way (death grips, Radiohead, the National, modest mouse, grimes, 100 gecs to some extent all do this to some extent. I’ve never been able to get into or fancied myself good enough to have fun with fiction, short stories, etc and more high brown self-serious poetry either but I think learning to write lyrics and some basic garage band level production or simple poetry about big ideas is good for everyone. Just as I think everyone has an affinity for some or a few likes of more material hands on artvwjeyhee just painting, customizing clothes and furniture, making dream catchers, poetry, photography etc like everyone from every culture has their niche imo
Legit couldn’t tell if that was the AI or not. I am here for it! I’m new to the channel and wasn’t sure if she typically included poems or not so I couldn’t really decipher. But the AI kinda deep
this is what it sounds like when i'n watching a video essay, start falling asleep, think i'm listening to and understanding the essay, and then i jolt awake and the video ended 20 minutes ago
I like this as more than just laughs. It would actually help me find phrases and styles to write with more momentum and character. What's really great about this is that it really shows you what a writing style sounds like ,regardless of what it actually says. It feels clear, engaging, conversational, personal and earnest while saying nothing very cohesive or intelligible. I wonder if AI garble like this has a future helping people see why their writing feels wrong or how a literary style they like actually works, regardless of how its used.
I love the ones like this, where you can say such ridiculous things (especially about yourself) throughout, but still keep a straight face and very "serious" tone of voice throughout. That juxtaposition always makes the humor hit harder for me personally. I also love your critiques on the Right, since I'm very Left and agree with them, making me both enjoy your content more as a creator and like you more as a person.
This feels like something a video essayist would make if they just sat down and just wrote whatever they had in their head, going on random tangents and engaging in complete unedited chaos. I love this. Thank you.
AI generated writing is always hilarious to me, I love the crazy dreamlike nonsense and occasional appearance of making a weird, fantastical sort of sense. Your performance and editing really sold the character of a slightly eldritch being trying to communicate deep yet random, incomprehensible concepts!
i *adore* how the AI can write something so accidentally profound as potential for expansion lmao; so here are some of my favourites 7:17 “Late at night, when I’m not in the presence of my cats” 10:03 “I want to bring in a few toes into the classroom” 10:58 “These children are being brainwashed by their schools, and they’re being brainwashed into thinking that they’re stupid, and then given candy and access to a train.” 14:07 “In reality, facts can’t actually exist” 16:53 “I was walking haltingly on the shores of the Bermuda Triangle” 17:40 “but... if there’s one constant in all of this, it’s that no one has a good idea.” if i’m missing anything they’ll be linked in the description, linked in the description, linked in the description
8:40 "If people believed the government is behind the events that happened around them for thousands of years, then it makes sense to figure out who's responsible for the tunnels" is such a hilarious turn, though more of an HBomberGuy thing to write. 12:32 "She was perfect when she was a young woman who was killed in a freak accident and lived to tell her own story"...in AI video essay world people don't die when they are killed
@@dominiccasts Tbf people make video essays called like “the woman who died three times” only to reveal it’s about a woman who LEGALLY died 3x - like that’s not total bullshit - all the time
You stated all this with such conviction and passion that it passed for a clear and cogent essay. And that underscored to me how it is the style, rather than the substance of a speaker which wins the bulk of an audience of average people. Very revealing.
This is hilarious and was also quite a strange experience to watch. There were a couple points where (mostly thanks to your wonderfully serious delivery) I wondered if you'd transitioned into something profound you'd actually written, and then you'd declare that Zoe Bee is an alien and I'd realize we were still in the AI section. It felt like mental vertigo. It's interesting to see how the AI could put together some cohesive and even lovely or profound sentences, but overall, can't create an actual argument for the essay -- which I suppose makes sense, since it doesn't have an opinion to argue for. I'm tempted to see what an AI would make out of my own writing, or some Shakespearian soliloquys.
"But he's not a writing teacher. He's an English teacher. He doesn't give a shit." As a writer who homeschools her kids, I feel this DEEP in my soul. 😂
What I learned today: We have progressed to the point where an AI can write an approximation of a video essay, but it cannot fact-check for shit. Therefore, many video essayists and reactionaries on RUclips have some pretty stiff competition
The mimicry of your style was just so amazing. The systems clearly don't really get "context" a whole lot yet -- but the form of the thing was so hilariously on point.
Some of the imagery in the poem section at the end was actually pretty evocative 🤣the dead oak tree bit is my favourite! I love your videos, thank you for all that you do!
To be fair, when I was a student, I would really have appreciated someone giving me food, a place to sit down and be quiet, books, and a place to sit down and read. That sounds awesome.
Dude! Your performance of the essay is ON POINT! It's like you believe what you're saying and taking it so seriously. Not only that, but I can also hear the AI's voice about reality. And that prediction about the internet and the vacuum.... A little spooky to be honest! Great job Zoe!
Imagine if you had just uploaded this video essay like it was a straight essay and let your viewers become increasingly lost and confused as the video goes on before concluding you're completely broken.
Disclaimer, I always try to give video essays my attention, and appreciate the points being made. And if I can't do so the first time, I'll re-watch them. But I do really love listening to a video essay in the background. It's nice to just have someone talk about stuff, and then every once in a while I can focus in, and hear something incredibly insightful that changes my perspective on an important topic. What I love about this video is that it gives that same nice feeling of just listening to someone talk. But then, when I do actually pay attention for a couple sentence, I hear a new string of absolute nonsense. It's a surreal, almost psychedelic trip.
The funniest part is you performing this with a straight face. Especially while talking about "Zoe Bee the space alien who lived to tell the story of her own death" :D
I love that I've consumed so much Zoe Bee that I know exactly which videos it's sampling from. So many "I trained an AI" videos are obviously fake because it makes up things only a dumb human would think an AI would make. Either that, or the AI is awful. This one is totally real. 💚💚
sounds like way more effort to come up with your own idea of what the ai would say than to just use the ai. the former may take hours, the latter only a few minutes of copy+pasting and then waiting for the result.
@@turtletoad7725 Yeah, I'm sure there was some AI in the beginning of the fake ones, but it came out "boring" so they add things like, "Hello, let me bend over and fart, 'Oh no my ass!' he cried fartingly" and it's just like... the AI obviously didn't write that. themselves.
AI is really getting scary. It used to have the intelligence of a three year old, but now it has reached the age of 14, where the average teenager starts bullshitting their way through essay assignments in high school...
It's the exasperated sighs that sells it for me. Zoebot is pretty exasperated. That break to Black and White was perfect. I think Zoebot's poetry was actually pretty good and fit in at the right spot as well as the like and subscribe bit.
This is so strange. The AI uses a lot of words and phrases that Zoe uses, but assembles them in a completely surreal and occasionally nightmarish way. That she reads it all in such a convincing facsimile of her usual video style only adds to the 'uncanny valley' feeling. I really hope none of the weird and creepy things it makes her say ever get clipped and used out of context.
This feels like the last memoir of the last survivor of the apocalypse, leaving their message out there for anyone out there to see as they slowly go insane from the dust infecting them, trying to get a message out but their thoughts scrambled.
this video showed up for me thru autoplay of your other videos I was painting while it was playing in the background and I this was the weirdest thing to surface out of hyperfocus into
The memory of walking down the street bit sounds almost exactly like how dreams are. Like that exact same weird non-logic. The part about you are the reeds and all that at the end was surprisingly beautiful. Complete nonsense from an AI helplessly dropping words on the floor, but still beautiful.
I felt like I HAD to be in the middle of a dream with how incoherent this script was. Massive props to you for reading it all out with a straight face and remaining sane through the process.
I think my favorite part of the video is how it absolutely feels like an AI just vomited a word salad after taking bits and pieces of all of her past videos. It's almost like little motifs in a song being taken out of context.
That’s basically my understanding of how text generating AIs work. They go from one word to another using their data to predict what is most likely to come next but don’t form an overarching plan for where it should go or what it should mean.
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Yep, we could relate... Dogs loves a freshly made bed..
Not gonna lie, for a minute I wasn't sure if it was a joke sponsor. Like: "This video sponsored by birch. Birch, It's a tree". That being said...why is "non-toxic" the main adjective here? I mean the ad read clarifies, but it's a bit of an expected quality, I would think
Maybe you can teach me how to write a book. Because I’m writing a book called This is the Way: how the entertainment industry encourages toxic fandom for profit and is harming the industry. And my mind is a scrambled because I have autism and I want a second writer. My goal of the book isn’t for money but to enlighten people. Sure be mad at black Aerial people but be quiet around whitewash in fate the Winx saga which is true.
that was a really long ad break dang
“She was a young woman who was killed in a freak accident and lived to tell her own story” Absolutely killed me. And I don’t know if I’ll live to tell that story.
@@paranormalnumbertwelve Unfortunately without living.
She is a vampire?
"Were you killed?"
"Sadly, yes - but I LIVED"
@@strangejune So is that why they’re a Demon Child
Nearly killed rofl
"What is Reality" is the perfect topic for an AI to choose to write about while speaking in whatever this gibberish is lmao
Oh, that's the language I type in... god I hate myself for it.
The conspiracy theory part is priceless. Although, to be honest, I love all of it. It made me chuckle a little bit and smile. Man, you can tell an ai wrote this, and it is crazy to think that we got to a point where we can have a program that can make video scripts. Also, videos, in general
That was straight up Kookiedooks ❤
This is what essays sound like when I listen to them half asleep.
Or when I space out for a bit and am desperately trying to piece together what I missed
i listened to THIS half asleep. it was a wild ride
When I read a story without actually processing what's happening
"He's not a writing teacher, he's an English teacher, he doesn't give a shit." Every SINGLE English teacher I ever had. XD
Every university’s comp rhet faculty vs lit faculty feud
Zoe: Puns are good, actually
ZoeBot: Puns are literally evil.
Ironically, still valid
Jose’s Lab*
@@fakereal127 Jose's Lab is also a self-proclaimed total asshole.
You better apologize.
Ah yes...my favorite children's book: The Grapes of Wrath.
That AI essay was an ride from start to end. I'm amazed you could read all that with a straight face
Gotta admit that "the future is shit" line hits though.
I'll better invest in shit then!
My favorite 2005 movie
From zoos avourite profesor steinbeck, who axted in th movie XD
It's a great children's book, but it can't compare to the book celebrated by all artists and writers: Looney Tunes
But it's also a poem.
"He could dedicate more time to his writing. But he's not a writing teacher, he's an English teacher; he doesn't give a shit" had me laughing so hard. Really kind of sums up the way the school curriculum treats literature. If only more teachers had your special chairs that can hold hundreds of students instead of just giving students access to a train, we wouldn't have these problems :(
Rally against the train of thought!
@@strangejune The ai is doing a very good job of that. I don't think there was a consistent train of thought in that whole essay.
@@machinedramon3532 There was no train. Just a bunch of thoughts driving in individual cars, getting stuck in a traffic jam on the Information Superhighway...
5:53 - 6:12
"In this video I'm going to be talking about puns, specifically the concept of puns. So puns are basically a form of punning. They're also a very bad joke. If you're tweeting at someone and they're trying to apologize for that tweet, then you better apologize for it. People are afraid of puns, they're afraid of the uncanny valley."
This sounds like Vsauce went insane and is talking to you through a paper mario text box.
this essay is the funniest thing I've seen all week.
I love how the AI would just get obsessed with a particular word or phrase like “chairs” or “grapes of wrath”
Or puns
Pins!
Don't forget link in the description
I'm not about to apologize for my love of pin art.
I want to see disabled people in chairs
my favorite line is "she was perfect when she was a young woman who was killed in a freak accident and lived to tell her own story" lol
The reveal of zoe being a space alien, masterfully foreshadowed at the beginning, was amazing
david bowie vibes
"I was walking haltingly on the shores of the Bermuda Triangle."
This AI may not have perfectly replicated Zoe but it certainly got the vibes.
I love hearing her read this nonsense in the same emotive way that she does her normal vids
i adore this. now i need a shirt that says “the science is in”
"I need to get up and get some rest." Is a wonderful, contradictory sentence and such a mood.
One of the video essays of all time
"Puns are basically a form of punning."
"When the wind blows in the summer sun and the mosquitoes fly by like raccoons, like squirrels..."
Ah yes, this time of the year again.
This was hilarious, thank you Zoe.
ngl, i fully support more video essayist letting an algorithm chop and screw their content into a new nonsensical essay and just. reciting it with a straight face whenever theyre burnt out or just dont have time to write a new essay.
I support the logical conclusion of this, where they also use voice AI and AI generated images instead of acting it out too. zero irony. Feed the algorithm without overworking.
Bruh I haven't heard "chopped and screwed" in a fat ass minute but I love how appropriately descriptive it is for this video 😂
If you're working with this on in the background, it almost makes sense for a little bit until it says something obviously nonsensical. It's kind of like the narrative equivalent to elevator music.
Next level would've been to use an AI to mimic your voice AND appearance all together to have the ultimate AI powered video
Zoe is an alien CONFIRMED
ALSO YES CONGRATS ON 200K!!!!!!!
Who says she didn't already do that 👀
Holly+ by holly herndon
90% of professorhood is bit commitment
This journey was fantastic.
There were sections where it was obvious that the essay was written by an AI, but there were other times when I almost missed the fact that it was a production of the AI and assumed it must have been written by a human, only to hear some more utter bullshit again and realizing it was unquestionably written by an AI.
Great Video
Like 'zoey bee needs a break' turning into 'shes a space alien'
SO many gems in this. I especially liked "Just give them food and a place to sit down and be quiet."
It's like, "oh, so that's why you bite the hand that feeds you."
Zoe! This is delightful. The acting, the setup, the cat shirt! This is just pure delightful nonsensical joy!
Thank youuuuuu 🙏
I would have love without the preamble, just the video and in the end the reason
@@Pandor18 while the wild ride would have totally given us all whiplash, the title giving it away might have made it more predictable (as in we could expect the incoming chaos).
Still I fucking approve 😂
@@M3G4FR34K I even think about it, the tittle would be "what is reality?" and I think there is a special filter since the AI began to talk, so erase that too
“Late at night, when I’m not in the presence of my cats” is the most Lovecraftian thing I have ever heard.
"But Zoe," you may ask, "how come the AI never once thought to include a 'But Zoe' moment?"
Absolutely riveting. Well done lab. Well done.
"I am the ghost of a dead oak tree Arching amok through the gaps between now and the next moon shining noiseless on the horizon" That was amazing though, I love it. 🤯💖
As somebody kind of dabbling on poetry who has been a forever 2d artist, and I sing snd write lyrics a bit, I’ve been having more fun and feeling less intimidated by taking a simple subject or something i have a very deep level of familiarity is and play with literary devices, different kind of formats, seeing the way a pretty poem also reads aloud well, and tropes.
That whole last bit, I actually think at least on the ears (like say im somebody who hardly understands English listening and then see a mediocre translation of what it means- I would be obsessed with it. It reminds me of some kind of impossible deluzzian emerald tablet, and on the subject of Giles i love that waxing poetic metaphor style of “bodies without organs” perhaps even “ghost in the shell” or in the fungicore tradition to keep it pertaining to nature “when death becomes you”
If it was edited a bit and circled around a more obvious concept or narrative and generally more cohesive that would be a really fun little free verse poem.
Lyrics and producing can definitely just be like that and if the concept/mood is strong and the productions, c progression, tone etc are well done and it’s just trying to be that way (death grips, Radiohead, the National, modest mouse, grimes, 100 gecs to some extent all do this to some extent.
I’ve never been able to get into or fancied myself good enough to have fun with fiction, short stories, etc and more high brown self-serious poetry either but I think learning to write lyrics and some basic garage band level production or simple poetry about big ideas is good for everyone. Just as I think everyone has an affinity for some or a few likes of more material hands on artvwjeyhee just painting, customizing clothes and furniture, making dream catchers, poetry, photography etc like everyone from every culture has their niche imo
Legit couldn’t tell if that was the AI or not. I am here for it! I’m new to the channel and wasn’t sure if she typically included poems or not so I couldn’t really decipher. But the AI kinda deep
this is like what it sounds like when you're not fully paying attention to a video essay playing in the background
LITERALLY!!!
this is what it sounds like when i'n watching a video essay, start falling asleep, think i'm listening to and understanding the essay, and then i jolt awake and the video ended 20 minutes ago
I like this as more than just laughs. It would actually help me find phrases and styles to write with more momentum and character. What's really great about this is that it really shows you what a writing style sounds like ,regardless of what it actually says. It feels clear, engaging, conversational, personal and earnest while saying nothing very cohesive or intelligible. I wonder if AI garble like this has a future helping people see why their writing feels wrong or how a literary style they like actually works, regardless of how its used.
I love the ones like this, where you can say such ridiculous things (especially about yourself) throughout, but still keep a straight face and very "serious" tone of voice throughout. That juxtaposition always makes the humor hit harder for me personally. I also love your critiques on the Right, since I'm very Left and agree with them, making me both enjoy your content more as a creator and like you more as a person.
i love how you can tell which videos the ai is pulling from at which parts
I always so confused about Russian EMP grenade and now I understand that the fascist American state is behind the tunnels of puns.
The punnel
This feels like something a video essayist would make if they just sat down and just wrote whatever they had in their head, going on random tangents and engaging in complete unedited chaos. I love this. Thank you.
So, about 1/2 of current youtube then...
AI generated writing is always hilarious to me, I love the crazy dreamlike nonsense and occasional appearance of making a weird, fantastical sort of sense. Your performance and editing really sold the character of a slightly eldritch being trying to communicate deep yet random, incomprehensible concepts!
This is so straight faced, I dont know how you did it. There must be outtakes
Outtakes linked in the description… linked in the description
i *adore* how the AI can write something so accidentally profound as potential for expansion lmao; so here are some of my favourites
7:17 “Late at night, when I’m not in the presence of my cats”
10:03 “I want to bring in a few toes into the classroom”
10:58 “These children are being brainwashed by their schools, and they’re being brainwashed into thinking that they’re stupid, and then given candy and access to a train.”
14:07 “In reality, facts can’t actually exist”
16:53 “I was walking haltingly on the shores of the Bermuda Triangle”
17:40 “but... if there’s one constant in all of this, it’s that no one has a good idea.”
if i’m missing anything they’ll be linked in the description, linked in the description, linked in the description
8:40 "If people believed the government is behind the events that happened around them for thousands of years, then it makes sense to figure out who's responsible for the tunnels" is such a hilarious turn, though more of an HBomberGuy thing to write.
12:32 "She was perfect when she was a young woman who was killed in a freak accident and lived to tell her own story"...in AI video essay world people don't die when they are killed
@@dominiccasts The tunnels got me too. And the thing about brainwashing, candy, and access to a train has apocalyptic eugenics vibes.
@@dominiccasts Tbf people make video essays called like “the woman who died three times” only to reveal it’s about a woman who LEGALLY died 3x - like that’s not total bullshit - all the time
You stated all this with such conviction and passion that it passed for a clear and cogent essay. And that underscored to me how it is the style, rather than the substance of a speaker which wins the bulk of an audience of average people. Very revealing.
This is hilarious and was also quite a strange experience to watch. There were a couple points where (mostly thanks to your wonderfully serious delivery) I wondered if you'd transitioned into something profound you'd actually written, and then you'd declare that Zoe Bee is an alien and I'd realize we were still in the AI section. It felt like mental vertigo. It's interesting to see how the AI could put together some cohesive and even lovely or profound sentences, but overall, can't create an actual argument for the essay -- which I suppose makes sense, since it doesn't have an opinion to argue for. I'm tempted to see what an AI would make out of my own writing, or some Shakespearian soliloquys.
"She [...] was killed in a freak accident, and lived to tell her own story"
"Were you killed?"
"Sadly yes. But I lived!"
"But he's not a writing teacher. He's an English teacher. He doesn't give a shit."
As a writer who homeschools her kids, I feel this DEEP in my soul. 😂
I can tell which videos the AI got a lot of inspiration from haha
What I learned today: We have progressed to the point where an AI can write an approximation of a video essay, but it cannot fact-check for shit. Therefore, many video essayists and reactionaries on RUclips have some pretty stiff competition
Oof sick burn! "Ouch-town, population you bro!" (I mean those youtubers of whom you speak.)
The mimicry of your style was just so amazing. The systems clearly don't really get "context" a whole lot yet -- but the form of the thing was so hilariously on point.
Your delivery on all of this stuff is so perfect. I love it so much
Some of the imagery in the poem section at the end was actually pretty evocative 🤣the dead oak tree bit is my favourite! I love your videos, thank you for all that you do!
The AI was surprising relatable, especially “feel through wordy text-based eye sore.”
"if we have a health guidelines, we can put up with conspiracy theorists and get out of this whole mess!" well said.
AI's ability to create the facade of human speech without any understanding is always wonderful.
Edit: The Editing in this video is fantastic.
“Chairs that can hold hundreds of students…”
FULL COMPLEX COMPLICATED BRAINS
“A meter is a foot and a millionthousandthousandthousandthousandth meter.”
Wow yeah. That really puts things into perspective.
i love how i put this on and my roommates genuinely thought i was just watching a regular old video essay LMAO
To be fair, when I was a student, I would really have appreciated someone giving me food, a place to sit down and be quiet, books, and a place to sit down and read. That sounds awesome.
That AI is getting some serious revenge for the whole chained in the basement business.
I can't even... I'm dying. What is reality, truly?
This feels like all your videos thrown in a blender and thrown on the wall to see what sticks 😂
That's basically what she did lol. Fed all her video scripts to an AI, then the AI scrambled them and spit out a remix
"You know the struggles of the human brain." Indeed I do, Zoe Bee, indeed I do. 😓
Dude! Your performance of the essay is ON POINT! It's like you believe what you're saying and taking it so seriously. Not only that, but I can also hear the AI's voice about reality. And that prediction about the internet and the vacuum.... A little spooky to be honest!
Great job Zoe!
This was a very insightful essay, especially enjoyed your commentary on the grapes of wrath and the relation to puns. Gave me a lot to think about
Imagine if you had just uploaded this video essay like it was a straight essay and let your viewers become increasingly lost and confused as the video goes on before concluding you're completely broken.
I just witnessed an AI having a full blown existential meltdown. Haunting.
okay this AI script started off fascinating and uncanny, turned hilarious, and then had me weeping tears of existential validation. WTF ARE WE DOING
Disclaimer, I always try to give video essays my attention, and appreciate the points being made. And if I can't do so the first time, I'll re-watch them.
But I do really love listening to a video essay in the background. It's nice to just have someone talk about stuff, and then every once in a while I can focus in, and hear something incredibly insightful that changes my perspective on an important topic.
What I love about this video is that it gives that same nice feeling of just listening to someone talk. But then, when I do actually pay attention for a couple sentence, I hear a new string of absolute nonsense. It's a surreal, almost psychedelic trip.
Still better than anyting I've ever written.
Huge applause for doing the entire bit without breaking into hilarious laughter. This is amazing, I'm literally laugh crying right now.
The way you changed your intonation so repeated repetition repeated words didn't feel weird or out of place was brilliant. Outstanding delivery.
This was def a video essay
This video is so unhinged omg 😂
Cool video it was weird when the AI script started name dropping and speaking in the third person. 🙂
Well you see the AI was José's Lab and she was talking about Zoe Bee, a woman who was killed in a freak accident and lived to tell her own story.
What a theory😂@@amoureux6502
this video really reinforces how skilled a speaker you are
Dear comment section, please get your act together and have a serious discussion about the topics laid out by this reputable source.
The funniest part is you performing this with a straight face. Especially while talking about "Zoe Bee the space alien who lived to tell the story of her own death" :D
I love that I've consumed so much Zoe Bee that I know exactly which videos it's sampling from.
So many "I trained an AI" videos are obviously fake because it makes up things only a dumb human would think an AI would make. Either that, or the AI is awful. This one is totally real. 💚💚
sounds like way more effort to come up with your own idea of what the ai would say than to just use the ai. the former may take hours, the latter only a few minutes of copy+pasting and then waiting for the result.
@@turtletoad7725 Yeah, I'm sure there was some AI in the beginning of the fake ones, but it came out "boring" so they add things like, "Hello, let me bend over and fart, 'Oh no my ass!' he cried fartingly" and it's just like... the AI obviously didn't write that. themselves.
About three minutes into that ai essay I could feel my brain shutting off. What an experience.
I really want to see the outtakes of this. I KNOW you did not get all the way through it without breaking into helpless laughter at least once.
Great job, Jose's Lab!
No AI will ever be able to replicate Zoe's impeccable fashion sense.
7:18 "when i'm not in the presence of my cats" - now _that_ is legitimately brilliant
AI is really getting scary. It used to have the intelligence of a three year old, but now it has reached the age of 14, where the average teenager starts bullshitting their way through essay assignments in high school...
It's the exasperated sighs that sells it for me. Zoebot is pretty exasperated. That break to Black and White was perfect. I think Zoebot's poetry was actually pretty good and fit in at the right spot as well as the like and subscribe bit.
For a few moments there were some good points being made... and then time broke... and we all broke...
“So that’s my sketchy little teacher position”
I want to be given candy and access to a train 🥺🥺
I want to be the last person to do research on PragerU, so if you find any errors or
Amazing when it was talking about learning, then suddenly leaped back to puns. I'd almost forgot that was the subject.
"The future is shit" couldn't've said better myself
How on Earth did you keep a straight face through this?
I would be cracking up at every strange statement.
Bravo. 👏
"English teachers don't give a sh it" no truer words have been spoken.
I appreciate the organization of books into a rainbow.
The grayscale section had me giggling uncontrollably. The effort in the delivery and editing just really made it
I loved your guest star in the Birch ad. I have a German Shepherd at home too, he can be just as in the way.
This is so strange. The AI uses a lot of words and phrases that Zoe uses, but assembles them in a completely surreal and occasionally nightmarish way. That she reads it all in such a convincing facsimile of her usual video style only adds to the 'uncanny valley' feeling. I really hope none of the weird and creepy things it makes her say ever get clipped and used out of context.
Good job on reading the AI generated essay with a straight face, I wouldn't have been able to do that.
This feels like the last memoir of the last survivor of the apocalypse, leaving their message out there for anyone out there to see as they slowly go insane from the dust infecting them, trying to get a message out but their thoughts scrambled.
this video showed up for me thru autoplay of your other videos
I was painting while it was playing in the background and I this was the weirdest thing to surface out of hyperfocus into
The memory of walking down the street bit sounds almost exactly like how dreams are. Like that exact same weird non-logic.
The part about you are the reeds and all that at the end was surprisingly beautiful. Complete nonsense from an AI helplessly dropping words on the floor, but still beautiful.
I felt like I HAD to be in the middle of a dream with how incoherent this script was. Massive props to you for reading it all out with a straight face and remaining sane through the process.
like russian EMP grenade ahahaha
I love how there are these jarring moments where it sounds like Zoe is desperately trying to escape the script but alas, it was all the AI.
I think my favorite part of the video is how it absolutely feels like an AI just vomited a word salad after taking bits and pieces of all of her past videos. It's almost like little motifs in a song being taken out of context.
That’s basically my understanding of how text generating AIs work. They go from one word to another using their data to predict what is most likely to come next but don’t form an overarching plan for where it should go or what it should mean.
"He's not a Writing teacher... he's an English Teacher"
Sensational. Truly profound.
I agree. Chairs are important.