Earth Notes: AI Promo Rap Style Video

8s "Earth Notes rap style 1 GA [VIDEO]" (poster) (i) (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • audio-only lo-fi mono low-bandwidth audio/opus clip 17kB +
  2. • low-bandwidth MP4 video clip 362kB ++
  3. • MP4 video clip 914kB +++ (may not be available in data-saver/lite mode)
  4. • hi-fi/original MP4 video clip 4708kB +++++
Transcript...
[00:00]

[woman] My heat pump's pumping, my carbon's slumping...

[00:03]

[man] 'Cos that @Home podcast keeps the whole planet jumpin'!

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Show Notes

Can it be ethical and sustainable to use AI to support a creative work, for example to make a fun promo video clip for this podcast? I made two, rap and '60s TV style (see the show notes)...

This was provoked in part by me preparing a lecture for undergrads on "sustainable technology", and all the AI (LLM) arguments currently raging...

Much of the current AI nonsense is oversold garbage generation, with the risk of creatives losing work, and the compute effort boiling the planet.

I have in the past made real promotion video (as part of a crowdfunder for a start-up) and know that there is no chance that EOU could afford the real deal with its revenue of pennies per day.

So is this a legitimate use of AI? I could not afford a creative human's input by orders of magnitude I suspect. (I have tried in the past to get help with hero images for pages, for example.)

Audogram is offering as of a free AI-powered podcast promo tool. I gave it a whirl.

The video creation process took something over a minute, and only 2 of my ~5 attempts were good enough (see the other below). So I probably did not boil even a small pond. But I stopped because I really do not want to be wasting unknown kWh on this.

Note that AI also helped with the (small, in this case) transcripts, in the form of Transcobble and its use of Whisper.

8s "Earth Notes 60s TV style 1 GA [VIDEO]" (poster) (i) (captions) Uploaded . Downloads:
  1. • audio-only lo-fi mono low-bandwidth audio/opus clip 17kB +
  2. • low-bandwidth MP4 video clip 361kB ++
  3. • MP4 video clip 1032kB +++ (may not be available in data-saver/lite mode)
  4. • hi-fi/original MP4 video clip 6003kB +++++
Transcript...
[00:00]

[woman] Darling, this podcast says we can save carbon

[00:02]

[woman] with something called a heat pump.

[00:03]

[man] A pump?

[00:05]

[man] Good heavens, Martha, the house isn't sinking.