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You're not wrong. The issue is, people fall for this, and the comment section of their videos is ample evidence that real people think that they're watching real opinions.

the question isn't whether the person in the picture is AI - they cop to this. the question is their scripts, which they claim they write themselves

please Pablo, can you make the expansion box as big as those Lacerda games? it's what everybody wants.

I can attest to real people not realizing this is AI.

That's definitely not an issue, it's joyous to find likeness in other people! But it is important to explain what is happening here to expose the exploitation.

definitely a very calculated cynical play here

I feel the same way! It's a really disgust inducing feeling, listening to this.

It's sad, and in my opinion, very predatory. Don't blame the people being tricked. Blame the person who's doing the tricking.

They think that even if this is a robot voice or whatever, there's probably a real person behind it, with their thoughts and feelings, because what is being said is so pertinent in the zeitgeist. They don't understand that there is 0 thought and 0 feeling.

A couple of things are at play. People are confirmation bias seekers. They are out there looking to reaffirm their opinions. This is a purpose engineered system to deliver exactly that, in a hyper specific field.

Also, lack of education about what they are watching.

I think this kind of situation is highly disingenuous. Like, I said, I can't prove that this is true. But my opinion is that it is.

I hate giving the slop machine publicity. But a lot of people are falling for this. And I hate to see this happen. The only way to combat scams is scam awareness. 9/9

The opinions feel valid because they are opinions of real people. Your opinions. In this scenario, your thoughts and feelings have been put through the chipper and served back to you under a pretense that a board game loving couple is having a conversation. 8/x

So, how do they do this? Well, as someone pointed out on our Discord, one possibility for writing a video like this is to just feed comments from a kickstarter project into a slop machine, and ask it to write a video based on them. 7/x

I know people fall for this, because there's plenty of comments under their videos from real people that come away feeling like they are in agreement with the video. 6/x

At a glance, it seems that all their videos are single serving. They target whatever will sound appealing to a potential viewer and present that opinion. So you come away from the video thinking, ah yeah, that was how I felt! 5/x

a screenshot of a thumbnail of another of their videos where they tell you to actually buy The Old King's Crown, this time, over Arcs.

But there's more giveaways that it's probably not written by a person. Their opinions are not consistent. Sure, it's entirely possible for people to change their minds, but these two videos are two months apart. 4/x

At the best of times NPI could not keep up with output like that. But they're not only just scripted - it's dialogue between two people. They play off of each other and the dialogue is squeaky clean. A human could not write so much at this speed this well. You need teams for that kind of output. 3/x

There's a few clues that point to the overwhelming possibility that absolutely nothing about this channel is real. First of all, their output - they produce at least two videos a week. They're all 15-20 minutes in length. And they're all scripted! 2/x

screenshot of an AI generated thumbnail with a pretend person holding a pretend box of the Old King's Crown expansion with the word's DON'T BUY IT on there

Hey board gamers - your feelings an opinions about games are being turned into slop.

There's a channel called Board Game Critique. All their videos are clearly made with AI. They fess up to this, but they claim that they write their own scripts.

I cannot definitively prove that they don't, but 1/x

Thanks for the recc, I am familiar with IA and I appreciate their goals. But, like, can I ask to not tell me what is overkill for my work? That's a decision for me to make. Not only is this making a lot of assumptions about what goes into a YouTube script, but it also assumes that that's all I do.

Took like a duck to water, honestly. All its features are exactly the things I was missing in word.

I dunno, it just feels like you have a picture of your pet. People have weird pets. Your correspondents probably just think you're one of those.

i mean, i did it in jest, this is the gag.

a version of this that makes sense

sadly, there's just no way of doing it that makes sense

Listen, okay, fair, but you know that's not what I mean. For the type of work I do, it just doesn't cut it. It's too limited. You asked why people use Word. I told you.

Gutted that you became this.

Sincerely,
Your constituent.

google docs is a trash word processor, i hate it. if you just wanna type some words - it's fine - but as soon as you want to get serious work done it's a joke

it's a simple process of elimination that arrives at the truth

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