The content on the Web overfloweth. According to various estimates, every day about 4.5 million blog posts are published on WordPress. More than 500 million tweets are sent each day on Twitter (subject to change based on the variable X), and more than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Video is now responsible for more than 50% of all Internet content.
Generative AI’s raison d'être, at least for the moment, is to help us produce all of this stuff even faster. But is snackable content, produced by AI, digital junk food? After living in the trenches with Generative AI for the past 6 months, I'm starting to realize that that AI might be better at cutting and snipping than creating.
Will AI effectively produce better content, or will it just churn out more and more junk food? The jury’s still out. But your meeting videos might get watched more if they are shorter. According to Pex, around 90% of videos people upload on their YouTube channels never reach 1,000 views. For a video-sharing site that gets more
than 5 billion views daily, that’s a lot of underconsumed content.
What’s new in the world of Generative AI? For academics and academic wannabes, there’s PaperTalk.io. Astoundingly, it will take an inscrutable academic paper (I believe academics are secretly paid by the word) and provide a really solid summary. Here’s an example showing how
it took a full-length academic paper, shrunk it to size and even included an audiobook like transcript for read-a-phobics. |