An IT student from the Philippines earns $9,000 a month on his YouTube channel, creating videos generated using artificial intelligence.
An IT student from the Philippines earns $9,000 a month on his YouTube channel, creating videos generated using artificial intelligence.
Mark Lawrence I Garilao, creator of the FUNTASTIC YT channel, posts one or two videos a day, featuring a cartoon cat and his father in surreal situations, Dexerto reports .
According to him, each video takes only 1–2 hours to create thanks to tools like ChatGPT (for dialogue), KlingAI (for animation), and other editing programs.
One video of a kitten swimming in a pond full of gummy bears has been viewed nearly 2 million times. His channel now has nearly 600,000 subscribers and nearly 500 million total views.
Garilao's video is part of a general trend that critics call "AI trash" — short videos generated by artificial intelligence that instantly become popular on the Internet.
Creators are now creating similar content on a large scale, seeking to capitalize on algorithm-driven recommendations. In response, YouTube has updated its rules for “inauthentic” content, and TikTok and Instagram have begun labeling posts created by AI.
