Amazing AI-generated WWE videos that sound like they’re choking are the future of entertainment

There’s this guy called Nigel Richards, a professional Scrabble player from New Zealand, his brain is not like yours and mine. He becomes a world champion in languages ​​he doesn’t like spanish language and french. His strategizing is, I think, recognizable as human thought, but barely. I say look:

Richards seems to have completely abstracted the concept of “word” and turned his brain into an engine designed to arrange tiles with different valuable patterns in a winning sequence.

At such a time The world’s largest entertainment company is YouTubeis like an entertainment Scrabble board, an algorithmic software ecosystem that delivers user-generated content it knows you’ll like before you know what you’ll like. And I believe that a series of WWE YouTube documentaries made with flimsy AI tools might just be a form of primitive, digital Nigel Richards. Perhaps these systems can master the video game of discovery, not for understanding, but purely for exploits that lead to success.

The YouTube videos in question were apparently discovered by a game designer and artist named Sam Blyalso known as umpucohas gone viral on Bluesky in recent days.

They’re supposed to be about WWE storylines and real-world drama, but every now and then the narrator has some kind of transient ischemic attack that causes him to say “what,” “wow,” and “who” with a strangely heightened accent, as if he’s trying to stay upright on a comically long rug pulled out from under him. Then the “what” turns into a grunt. Then the grunts give way to the voice of a drowning man. Before long, you’re just listening to the sound of a wet mouth. Sometimes this lasts ten minutes or more, and then the sound continues as if nothing happened.

This seems to be a pattern. Other users have reported the same glitch in other videos by this user, and some believe it may have something to do with the pronunciation of “WWE”.

But other YouTube accounts are posting similar videos with a similar glitch:

Allex Wellerstein, a scholar of nuclear war scenarios, was able to read the writing on the wall here, writing in Bluesky that “Anyone who doesn’t want more is left behind.”

So far, no one has said who did it, how the sound generator went so disastrously wrong, and why the faulty videos are still online. Occam’s razor suggests that someone is spamming the YouTube algorithm, probably to stolen accounts, and hoping it will be caught by viewers with just autoplay.

One of the accounts that posted these videos was posting what appeared to be private content in Turkish about 18 years ago, and then became inactive. Then, about a month ago, at a rate of about one a day, he started posting WWE documentaries that ranged from 20 minutes or so to an hour or longer (depending on how long the chokes went on).

one savvy YouTube commenter He understood the danger of these videos by writing, “Make sure you delete this from your viewing history.” It’s hard not to notice that glitch videos are some of the most popular downloads from these creators. Curiosity clicks help a bit, but people like me who actually sit there and listen to glitches for a few minutes do two tricky things: show the algorithm and other YouTubers what’s interesting, and also help YouTube grow. 4000 hour watch limit for monetization.

Most importantly, no human creator or gatekeeper should care about any of this. The person uploading these videos could be completely asleep at the wheel, not knowing or caring that there are glitches, but benefiting from them anyway.

We are still in the early days of intervening in our media diets. The In 2024, AI can claim against art it’s pretty plausible, but it may not matter. It seems that artificial intelligence can emerge and show humanity the garbage we will consume anyway, forms of content freed from the constraints of intent.