YouTube AI Update:🤖

Well we all know there is a requirement now to claim if we used AI in the making of our videos.  Originally I claimed I was not going to follow this edict from on high, well I’ve decided that it is better to just mark all my videos from here on out. 

It is obvious that YouTube has police bots patrolling the cyberspace so I decided best to just not make waves.  I was doing shorts for a friend and one of their videos earned me my first strike on one of my channels because I accidentally uploaded to my Lumosity channel.  Funny thing is YouTube gave me a strike on a video that I had not done anything other than upload, the public had not seen it and it was still in draft form.  I would have deleted it, but I already had a strike, I fought the strike and won.  That said also took down the videos as I didn’t want them to stay.  Called my friend and let them know I got an age strike just in case they liked them, even though I had just done for show, but just in case.  I really felt like one of the VICTIMS “criminals” from “Minority Report” YouTube socked it to me before I had even done anything. 

FREE PROGRAMS YOU MAY WANT: 

CANVA:  Can be used to make thumbnails also AI Pictures from what I hear.

 https://www.canva.com/ai-image-generator/ Rough example of using AI within Canva and Canva to make thumbnail.

Terms of use: 

https://www.canva.com/pricing/

Looks like no problem with YouTube even for free. 

Gencraft:  Nice free image generator.  5 free renders a day

https://gencraft.com/

Of note: 

2.1.2. If you do not maintain a Paid Subscription: Subject to these Terms (including the license set forth in Section 3.2 and the disclaimers set forth in Section 6), Company grants you (i) a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to use and access Gencraft solely for your own personal, noncommercial use, and (ii) a license to your Generated Content under Creative Commons Noncommercial 4.0 Attribution International License.

2.2. Certain Restrictions. The rights granted to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (a) except to the extent allowed with respect to your Generated Content pursuant to Section 2.1 or as expressly permitted by us in writing otherwise, you shall not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit Gencraft or Gencraft Content, whether in whole or in part; (b) except to the extent allowed with respect to your Generated Content pursuant to Section 2.1, you shall not modify or make derivative works of Gencraft Content;

NightCafe

Get a generous supply of credits to do art renders.  This is the AI Free art Program I demonstrated 5/5/2024 Live.

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/

I did not upscale the render and here is a link to video not yet shared that I just made and sharing with you showing the difference between normal output and using three credits to upscale the picture. 

https://vento.so/view/a98377ac-1499-4f43-a10d-5b1aa5e1bc19?utm_medium=share

I also made a thumbnail live using the output from NightCafe downloaded and then uploaded to PhotoPea.

Lastly a link to PhotoPea and Paint.net both are great photo editors in their own right.  I use Photopea for the bulk of my thumbnails these days.  Photopea has a free and pay version (modest fee), and Paint.net encourages donations.  

Photopea

https://www.photopea.com/

Lives in the cloud 

Paint.net

https://getpaint.net/  

Installs on your computer.

Best wishes to you all have a happy rest or May. This year is flying by.

Warmly,

Bill