跟讀練習: The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane - 通過影片學習英語口語

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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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這段影片共有 142 個句子、1798 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 11:26。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 157 個詞，接近日常對話。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
script 名詞	/skɹɪpt/	文章
animation 名詞	/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/	動畫 /動畫, 動漫 /動漫
steal 動詞	/stiːl/	偷, 盜 /盜
sponsor 名詞	/ˈspɒn.səː/	保證人 /保證人
pump 名詞	/pʌmp/	泵, 唧筒
irresponsible 形容詞	/ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/	不負責的 /不負責的, 不負責任的
percentage 名詞	/pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/	百分率, 百分比
defend 動詞	/dɪˈfɪnd/	保衛 /保衛, 守衛 /守衛
curious 形容詞	/ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/	好奇, 有好奇心
participate 動詞	/pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/	參加 /參加
compete 動詞	/kəmˈpiːt/	競爭 /競爭, 高下
resource 名詞	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	資源 /資源
survival 名詞	/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/	生存
landscape 名詞	/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/	風景 /風景, 景色
salary 名詞	/ˈsæləɹi/	薪金, 薪水

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
come back 動詞	回來 /回來, 返回
figure out 動詞	弄清楚
find out 動詞	找出, 查明
go through 動詞	通過 /通過

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	I've been working · has been getting · I've been trying
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	has implemented · have just told · has started
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is sponsored · can't be done

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 69 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, I'm, can't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, detection /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/, influential /ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, irresponsible /ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

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