Reminds me of a number of channels that have fuckloads of automatically generated content, we're talking >1000 videos, with barely 10k total views combined.
Or a channel where every video is 12 hours long, amassing whopping sub 500 views each.
Hey guys, just doing another video where I talk about which plants best represent my favorite Star Trek characters. I really think Picard is a fern don't you.
Would there be a way to ai generate hour-long 4k content and automatically upload it to youtube?
Yes
And would this actually kill youtube or just force it to take action and make the experience more costly for the viewer?
You'd need an army of bots doing that and even then, you wouldn't come close to killing it, but might lead to shittier TOS in the future. YT already deals with thousands of hours of video being uploaded every minute
Ensuring how to get the same file back from the video is what might be the tricky part, thanks to YT's compression algorithms. I don't know if the hash of a downloaded video is the same as the uploaded original, supposing it's downloaded at the same resolution and FPS