and apparently AI-written scripts that are a mixture of fact and typically-AI-overwritten fiction. I skimmed down the comments on the so-called "documentary" that the YouTuber created from combining the episodes about the Beatles' earliest years, and there were a number of posts pointing out it was done with AI and contained errors. And of course there were AI slop details like including video of an old Comet commercial with Josephine the Plumber while talking about a German cleaning woman.

I just dipped into another video there, on when the Beatles tried to buy a Greek island, and within a minute or two of checking heard invitation mispronounced (inviNtation) and seconds later Agamemnon (ACKamemnon). And there was an image of sand dunes while the narrator spoke about mountains of bullshit.

There's no information on who's behind these videos, where they are, or any connection with Beatles fandom. They might really be a Beatles fan, or - just as likely given the AI use - they might just have felt the band was a good subject for clickbait. They don't identify any of their sources, just rip them off.

Research? Feeding books or articles into AI.

Real documentaries on the Beatles deserve attention, as do real books and articles written by real humans. The people behind those sources deserve support. AI users ripping off work done by real human creatives don't. They just steal views and syphon off income from real creatives.

Paul McCartney spoke out quite clearly against generative AI last year, pointing out how it hurt real creatives.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143381045

Right now YouTube is drowning in AI slop, much of it from content farms or cynical individuals who don't even really care about the subjects of their AI-enabled videos. There are endless AI videos about celebrities including famous rock stars all over YouTube already.

So I'm locking this. I don't think Paul would approve of AI-generated videos about the Beatles.

you didn't think it was AI narration.

Although the narration still sounds like AI to me, and did to at least one person commenting on YouTube about most of his videos whose comments I checked, he denied a specific question about it at one point.

His mispronunciation of Mersey, which seemed really odd for a dedicated Beatles fan, was explained or blamed on his being American. That doesn't explain other mispronunciations, or some clueless (but typical of AI) choices to help illustrate the videos - or saying Ringo's real name is Richard Starkley in one video - but freelancing amateurs can make mistakes that won't be caught by editors.

I also checked for any Reddit discussions of that YouTube channel, saw some recommendations of it by Beatles fans, and no objections there to it, let alone any suggesting it's AI.

I'm still not entirely certain he didn't use AI. But I'm not positive he did.

I won't watch the videos myself because it bothers me that he's asking people to send him money via Patreon, and he's monetizing his YouTube channel with sponsorship, while giving zero credit to all the sources he took information and video clips and photos from. Especially since it's quite possible he had AI research for him and write all or most of the scripts. He apparently has no credentials as a writer. But since the 43 videos on his channel are spaced out over a year and a half, I suppose it's also possible he wrote the scripts himself. More possible, anyway, than when the AI-generated channels are releasing new videos with long scripts every day or two.