
Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the “Dark Souls of synthesis.” Despite using “hard mode” production techniques that often rely on telephone line testing equipment and […]
A new Kapwing report found that 59% of videos shown to new TikTok accounts are AI slop, roughly three times the rate found on YouTube.
As YouTube cracks down on low-quality AI content, faceless creators who built real audiences without showing their face are now struggling to stay monetized.
The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.

YouTube is reintroducing private messaging after testing new ways for users to share videos and “have conversations about them” last year. In an announcement on its official blog, YouTube says it’s now starting to expand the in-app video sharing and messaging feature to users in the US and “other global regions” who are 18 or […]
You can now share YouTube videos and chat with friends directly inside the app, as YouTube expands its relaunched messaging feature to the US and beyond.

If you’ve uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won’t admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed […]

Though YouTube has always been a place where up-and-coming artists could be discovered and make it big, in recent years the platform has become a launching pad for some of Hollywood’s most exciting new horror directors. The filmmakers behind films like Talk to Me, Iron Lung, and Obsession all started off as content creators posting […]