MrBeast Warns AI May Upend the YouTube Creator Economy

News Source : Newser
News Summary
- YouTube's MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, is concerned about the future of creative work.
- OpenAI's Sora is an AI that can make complete videos from simple text prompts.
- Donaldson pondered the issue on X, writing, "When AI videos are just as good as normal videos, I wonder what that will do to YouTube and how it will impact the millions of creators currently making content for a living" The anxiety isn't unique to YouTubers.
- Creators across entertainment, including film and gaming, have pushed back against rapidly evolving AI tools.
With generative AI now capable of producing entire videos from a single prompt, YouTubes top creator, MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, warns that creators could soon find themselves competing with mach [+1893 chars]