For the fake World War II documentaries what I bet they're doing is taking long-form professional historical accounts and having AI remix it and then probably lifting the footage from legitimate documentaries and public sources.

This is why they can produce multiple versions of the same thing just in a different way each week.

Damn it's all slop all the time now isn't it.

Also be aware there are like 42 minute YouTube documentaries assembled with skill with real footage and they actually seem to overall built a great narrative.

But there's all these little very subtle factual things they get wrong. It's delivered with authority but like the World War II ones have factual misunderstandings only an AI would do. I really was like truly enjoying one about American production numbers.

And then you see there's like three subtly different versions of the same thing it's a production line. Sigh.

It's really really valuable to sell advertising space to Americans

Another carefully-curated educational YouTube channel sold off to private equity and turned into significantly AI slop.

As far as I can tell I think it's now run outsourced to a foreign college-educated professional with animation skills and some technical chops, but not fully fluent in the topic using an AI to write it.

They'll usually have a decent narrator for the bigger channels.

Just must be so cheap they can just invest in these things and coast forever.

The FIFA World Cup opening, where they presented a leader who just armed a genocide in Gaza according to the UN, with a peace prize looked a bit like the opening credits to a 90s Michael Bay sci-fi movie about robots on Jupiter.. where they have 60 seconds to explain how the world got to place it is in.

I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world.

- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers
- People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.