Shadowing Practice: The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I wasn't planning to make this video

and I especially wasn't planning for it to be the first time in the 10 years

that I've been working on the Real Engineering YouTube channel that I talk directly to camera and you,

the audience, but it just feels like a matter of survival at this point.

I wanted to talk about the recent community post that the Kurskazak channel, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, but I don't think anyone does put up,

and the impacts it's having on YouTube site-wide.

It's not just Kurskazak and I don't know if they used AI or not.

I'm not here to defend their channel, but I know this is affecting other channels that absolutely do not use AI.

I might be one of them.

I don't know.

But they put up this community post talking about how their recent video got flagged by AI by tools

that YouTube has implemented to try to combat AI slop.

And I find this very concerning because

Kurzgesagt is a big enough and influential channel enough that they can find out and correct this, but not everyone can.

My channel's performance has been getting worse and worse and worse over the last few months, and we are really struggling.

And I'm not sure if it's because of AI or because of cultural trends within AI.

But I was curious on what detection tools

and what the detection tool was actually detecting because it seems like it's just attacking faceless channels,

the channels that just use voiceover and aren't really combating the things

that are actually AI slop on the platform

because I've been trying to get a channel that's been stealing

my voice down for the last six months to a year

and YouTube have just told me that I can't prove

that it's my voice and that they can't do anything about it

and that's with me using every resource at my disposal using

my corporate partner manager through Nebula through messaging people like Todd

to ask for advice through even asking lawyers can i sue this channel

but that isn't something that's possible

and i don't really want to go through the stress

and monetary like requirements to to sue someone that's a very american thing

that i don't really want to participate in i just want

the channel to stop using my voice reach across the region in minutes

and a reserve army that can swell from peacetime to wartime over a single weekend that's israel

This is impacting voice or faceless channels like mine all over YouTube.

And you might have noticed that your favorite YouTube channel, your favorite voiceover faceless channel has started appearing more on camera like this.

And this is why, because YouTube is punishing us for not showing our face.

It seems like we have to have this like proof of life moment in the YouTube video to prove

that we're not AI.

And it doesn't make any real sense.

And it doesn't seem to work, especially when that channel that's stealing my voice is still up and running without any issue.

And saying things about Israel and Ukraine that I would never say.

It's really upsetting.

They're stealing both my credibility and my personality and like everything.

And I think it's impacting how people approach YouTube and the cultural trends within YouTube.

Even if YouTube is not deliberately attacking faceless channels,

I think we're all seeing the impact that AI is having on the trends within YouTube as a platform.

I think it's impacting our performance because people just don't know what to trust on the internet anymore.

It feels like the dead internet theory is very much becoming a thing

and I notice it myself when I approach YouTube

and I click on a video and it's a new YouTube channel

and it's just a voice and it could the script could just be AI generated

and I find myself in this thought process for the first minute

or so of like is this AI can I trust this content

and sometimes I'm sure I get false positives and I click off videos

because I think it's AI and it's not

and I think this is just the trends that happen on YouTube too

and I don't want to be the guy I don't want to be the newspaper salesman

that complains about losing my job

because online media became a thing I'll adapt to YouTube as

much as I can I'll start appearing on camera it's upsetting to me

that I have to do that

because I have to do it in front of an audience of millions from the get-go

and that is difficult and the pressure involved with

that is terrifying this is the first time many of you will have seen my my face

and I'm not really worried about how people will react to

that as much as I'm afraid of people just recognizing me in the street

and the problems that come along with fame on the internet.

We've seen it time and time again that being famous on YouTube isn't really great for your mental health.

It's not something I value.

I value creating what I create.

And that's the only reason I am appearing on camera right now and talking about this situation.

Because I'm struggling to continue doing this YouTube channel.

I'm struggling to make enough money to keep it going.

And what I feel like YouTube is really irresponsible about

when it comes to throttling channels like this and not giving us the tools to let them know that we're human.

Like if I need to submit a passport photo or something to YouTube, if I need to get my channel on a whitelist,

if I need to pinky promise that I'll never use AI, because I don't.

I will, but that doesn't seem to matter to them.

And why it's irresponsible is because faceless channels are often the most expensive type to make, because getting in front of camera and talking like this is free.

I can do it all day.

It's easy.

If you've got the personality for it and everything else, it's not a particularly expensive thing to do.

My videos cost for animation alone between 10

and 20 000 each the only reason i can afford to do it is

because every single one of my videos is sponsored

and i mostly make my own salary off youtube ad revenue and

that also goes to other people within my company the real science channel has been reliant on real engineering for uh

subsidies from from my ad revenue for the last for its entire existence more

or less and yeah that just isn't sustainable anymore because you like real engineering used to make between

30 and 40 000 a month this month we've dipped below 10 000

and when one of our videos doesn't perform as it usually does sponsors stop coming back

and when they do come back they offer us

vastly less money

and very quickly we find ourselves in this situation where we can't really afford to continue

and i prefer letting sponsors pay for the content on this channel

because they can afford to like if if a video doesn't do well

or whatever like you know they're not losing out too much like most of them have millions

and millions and millions of dollars it's not that big of a deal

but i don't like relying on my audience through patreon

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because i just don't feel comfortable begging for money from my audience

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and i try to provide value to them as much as possible through things like nebula

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and wherever else that i can provide value but

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that might be changing because we are just struggling to stay afloat at the moment

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so I am going to share a Patreon link below and only if you can afford to,

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only if you want to see Real Engineering continue make the animations that we create,

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you should consider supporting the channel on patreon only in those conditions

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if you're struggling for money yourself please don't we'll be fine

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we'll figure something out i'll work harder as i always do to figure it out

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but this ai situation on youtube is becoming increasingly difficult and the competition for space on the home page is just getting

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higher and higher

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and higher between shorts taking a higher percentage of the the space on the home page

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and people who can pump out videos using ai scripts

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and stuff i mean even hank green had to apologize recently for using ai on his personal channel

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and the reality is if you're pumping out videos

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that frequently the chances are you are using ai i'm not sure why anyone is surprised

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and I don't want this to be a dig at Hank Green I understand the pressures

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that YouTube creators are under as good as anyone YouTube is such a hard place to compete

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and everyone is using AI now whether you want to admit it

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or not most people are using AI

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and using it for your scripting to me is just a

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no-go I feel like it's fairly normal to people are using it as a search engine

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because Google search has just been gone to shit.

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Like I will use Gemini to search for things, but I only ask it to give me the original sources.

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I'm not using that AI generated slop for script.

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I'm not using it for research.

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Like it doesn't make any sense half the time, but like people are using AI tools more and more.

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And it's this weird landscape of figuring out what, what is and isn't morally okay to use

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and the reality is channels like mine are struggling

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because everyone is using ai

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and what i do can't be done with ai it just can't like ai can't generate the scripts

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that i'm generating i am explaining things

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that people haven't explained in my way before i'm creating animations

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that ai could never even dream of and i know that

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because i run a channel i run a company

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that makes animations for engineering companies and these engineering companies have tried

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and tried and tried to use ai to generate the animations

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and they can't and they come to us instead

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and i don't think ai ever will be able to do it

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because ai can't generate something it's never seen before

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and i make things people have never seen before so

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if you want to see that continue consider supporting the channel on patreon

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and yeah i i don't know i don't know what the future of youtube is but it's not been easy

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 142 sentences and 1798 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:26. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
generate verb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/	To bring into being; give rise to.
script noun	/skɹɪpt/	A writing; a written document.
animation noun	/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/	The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
steal verb	/stiːl/	To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
sponsor noun	/ˈspɒn.səː/	A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or…
pump noun	/pʌmp/	A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
detection noun	/dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/	The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
hank noun	/ˈhæŋk/	A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
irresponsible adjective	/ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/	Lacking a sense of responsibility; performed or acting as though without responsibility; negligent.
percentage noun	/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/	The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
defend verb	/dɪˈfɪnd/	To ward off attacks against (something or someone).
curious adjective	/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/	Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
participate verb	/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/	To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
compete verb	/kəmˈpiːt/	To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
resource noun	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come back verb	To return to a place.
put up verb	To place in a high location.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
find out verb	To discover, as by asking or investigating.
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנה	בסרטון
הווה מושלם ממושך (Present perfect continuous) have/has been + -ing — פעולה שהתחילה בעבר ועדיין נמשכת עכשיו	I've been working · has been getting · I've been trying
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו	has implemented · have just told · has started
סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה	is sponsored · can't be done

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 69 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, detection /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/, influential /ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, irresponsible /ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like generate, script, animation.

מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?

שאדואינג היא טכניקת למידת שפה מבוססת מדע שפותחה במקור להכשרת מתורגמנים מקצועיים ופופולרית על ידי הפוליגלוט ד"ר אלכסנדר ארגואלס. השיטה פשוטה אך עוצמתית: אתה מקשיב לאודיו באנגלית ילידית וחוזר עליו בקול רם מיד — כמו צל העוקב אחרי הדובר עם עיכוב של 1–2 שניות בלבד. בניגוד להאזנה פסיבית או תרגילי דקדוק, שאדואינג מכריח את המוח והשרירים בפה לעבד ולשחזר דפוסי דיבור אמיתיים בו זמנית. מחקרים מראים שזה משפר משמעותית את דיוק ההגייה, האינטונציה, הקצב, הדיבור המחובר, הבנת השמיעה ושטף הדיבור — מה שהופך אותו לאחת השיטות היעילות ביותר להכנה לIELTS Speaking ולתקשורת באנגלית בעולם האמיתי.

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