How to Make AI Warhammer Videos, No Imagination and Very Little Work Required!

Is it possible to make a Warhammer 40k video with little to no human creative input? The answer is yes, apparently. Welcome to the dystopian future of KZbin wargaming content. #warhammer #wargammer40k #wargaming

[@dartmart9263]

I, for one, Do NOT welcome our new AI overlords!!!

[@tsuruchibranwen8579]

AI seems to hate tape measures for some bizarre reason?! Also... are that grots in power armor (in the second row, never really in focus)? I'll take twenty of them 🤣

[@banjotoothlessbill]

Noted. Perhaps you would like to be replaced first then ?

[@tangyhyperspace2217]

I think the hobby about imagination and creativity should have actual imagination and creativity in it

[@withDefiance]

Death of the human soul. There is already music shared with the addition 'Non-AI music'

[@Nero24200]

I've never been more convinced that humans have a soul because we have now seen what art looks like when it's made without one.

[@RXOBANSH33]

"No Imagination and Very Little Work Required!" Yeah, that sounds like AI.

[@rondanuser1204]

This is a wonderful insight into the whole AI genre. I'm with most in that I hold a deep disdain for it as a whole, but I gotta say, I did like what it came up with...LOL! Thanks for enlightening us!

[@oldhammered]

Hi Ron. Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm sort of fascinated and petrified by it all. Hopefully if cyberspace becomes an AI-generated swamp, people will unplug and pivot back to old-fashioned socializing. Happy holidays.

[@thetabletopskirmisher]

This video was actually informative AND hilarious!

[@eeneranna9795]

This is my first video seen on this channel, and I hope to Slaanesh you never make anything like this again.

[@visualbasicimp]

wow having to use tape measures- what a concept! Love your channel

[@social_ghost]

The indieweb is looking more and more enticing by the day the way things are currently going haha.

[@mardigan4922]

What was awful about that sample video was that it was entertaining enough for a background video. Not to mention the fact that as someone who has never played any edition of 40k, I could take the content as true. It is terrifying to think of the ramifications of content like this outside of the comparatively silly space of our hobby. Merry Christmas, thanks for pushing toy soldiers and rolling dice, and all around being the best wargaming channel on this platform! I’m hoping Santa brings me Devilry Afoot because of Oldhammered. lol

[@lacanian_lifter]

Yuck. Seems like every mediocre Warhammer video I’ve ever seen, many of which have hundreds of thousands of views.

[@condemnedcatbiceps]

It’s not just vids, I can’t get over the amount of posts in Facebook groups where some guy posts a novel about his original not-Bequin character along with an AI image of a generic 40k noblewoman with 14 fingers like anyone would give a shit. That’s another thing I like about Trench Crusade, the community is hostile towards that kind of worthless spam

[@criticalcommenter]

You talking about Luetin?

[@benjaminloyd6056]

I do hate AI and how it is flooding our world. But to be honest, it's kinda cool having Richard Attenburough narrate your video. Am I a hypocrite? I don't know.

[@kail4997]

Damnable warp, I will stay in the real space

[@winewithhedda]

It's like pablum. Mushy, tasteless and dull. It's an interesting experiment, but please never feel tempted to lean into AI. I will take your rough and ready videos over this goop everyday.

[@oldhammered]

Hey there. No worries. We're actually going to lean into our humanity. In a world of machine-generated crap, hopefully that will be refreshing.

[@SlabBulkhead]

While someone might be able to make an argument that AI stuff isn't theft, what is inarguably theft is Nvidia getting caught scraping youtube in violation of the user agreement.

[@marklindsey4112]

That's amazing. I hate it. Personally I'd much rather see a bit of personality and even a bit of human jank than this AI bull. But of course, I'm a bot so I would say that.

[@Gatecrasher_minis]

I can't tolerate the cheesy way AI write. Plus, i Vastly prefer your voice to the AI ones.

[@CastironWhisky]

Well this is different from your usual stuff... I do like your regular home-made style videos that feel like a buddy telling you about how amazing a game I never heard of before is.

[@FreeguildJoe]

What a joyride through the uncanny valley. I am now officially freaked out.

[@jeremysmetana8583]

I think you underestimate the charm of the sorts of videos you create. You will always have a dedicated viewership (however small we may be, comparatively), as we appreciate the particular style and, again, charm in what you do.

[@KnTenshi2]

Here's my main question: just how close was that script to reality? I.E. how much of it was making stuff up since it barely understands what words are, much less Warhammer. No seriously, all AI does is "A follows B 95% of the time", it's just really good at figuring out patterns in words and relationships between words.

[@criticalcommenter]

Isn't that what you do too?

[@paulsheldon8838]

@@criticalcommenter No, you don't have to show a child 25,000 examples of an orange for it to understand what is an orange.

[@criticalcommenter]

@@paulsheldon8838 kind of do. A child might learn a bit faster initially but AI learns much faster after that. Let me guess, you're religious?

[@KnTenshi2]

@@criticalcommenter Nope, because it has no understanding of the real world - only the text it has been fed. "Training" is just updating scalar values to an insanely complicated and nested Matrix Multiplication algorithm. And running it is just executing said Matrix Multiplication (iteratively, feeding the output back into the input for as long as you want, but nothing changes internally). This is quite different from our generalized meatsacks that evolved to handle complex input and output in a very different manner (involving spacial and temporal chemical interactions).

[@criticalcommenter]

@@KnTenshi2 So we aren't good at figuring out patterns and relationships between words? We don't think "B follows A 95% of the time"?

[@snorkherder]

Thanks for this, the over saturation of AI for everything feels more and more obvious and souless with each new example, maybe its just me, Keep doing what you do, I for one appreciate the real and not the conveyor belt AI fodder that is to come. Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you and your Family😀✝ 🎄🎅

[@intersepter3332]

Old Hammered - I went to art school for media arts and animation. They basically wanted me to adhere to this AI impromptu speed art. I couldn’t do it. My eyes aren’t capable of loving pixels. So my 2d pencil animation and my basic sculpting and imagination had to do. I need physical hands on artistic mediums. That’s just the kind of artist I am. If you unplug a computer you have nothing. Make it yourself- immortalizing. Videos are great memory makers, not friends.

[@nakenmil]

I'm willing to admit that there are times when AI stuff does an adequate job. Some AI pics can look kinda cool, fair enough. But I WANT there to be a person behind this! I WANT to see the human touch and individual quirks!

[@kipjebo9142]

An interesting experiment and I appreciate your exploration of it. Thanks again for all the work you put into the regular content you provide. It is truly appreciated.

[@vurrunna]

Definitely not a fan of AI generation, save in spaces where it's being used as an accessibility tool. I remember seeing a channel by a guy with a stutter who uses AI voice generation to replicate his own voice--it was honestly really cool to see, even if I still have trepidations about the ethics of AI software training (for all the usual reasons). That said, I'm an artist. I watch videos and search images because I want to experience art. AI removes much of the human aspect from the artistic process, which makes it fundamentally less enjoyable to me. I vastly prefer a messy product made by human hands than a concise product made by a machine. Though on a related note, I'd be curious to hear how your opinion on AI image generation has changed. I recall that you'd changed your logo to what appeared to be an AI image a while back, then changed it back to the older (and, in my opinion, superior) version. I'd be interested to know what spurred your decision, both in initially using AI images and then switching back? Not trying to cast asperity on you, to be clear, just genuinely curious. I know I was interested in the stuff back in the day, and mostly turned when the whole "AI is Theft" movement started. These days, I'm mostly concerned about the artistic merit of the matter, and how AI tends to diminish the quality of artwork (whether it be illustrations or KZbin videos).

[@hauntswargaming]

I feel your pain. It's looking like KZbin will become less worth it over time unless you're running an ai video farm. We're already at the point where it can be indistinguishable from reality. Then on top of that the labor market is becoming harder to navigate because every company is replacing workers with ai systems.

[@beebeebees]

Nothing makes me hit the "do not recommend this channel" button than AI art or voice over. Its horrible how much better its getting a mimicking the real thing.

[@Deep-Red-0]

Merry Christmas to you both, oh and a happy New Year too

[@m.e.3862]

Very creepy and weird. The uncanny valley is evident. I’m sure that it will be very common with creators using it because of its ease and novelty but it’ll soon wear off. It reminds me of when microwaves became cheap enough for everyone to buy and we were all trying out recipes and cooking everything just to see what happens. Now it’s associated with ease and speed and less quality. It’ll be the same with this

[@mordecaitoth6703]

A fascinating glimpse in to a bleak future haha Thanks for sharing!

[@oldschoolfrp2326]

Honestly surprised the suggested prompts weren’t all rage-bait about changing “meta”

[@MonsterPainter]

We Have to build our audiences and maintain them. Humans will rise above the slop.

[@tsuruchibranwen8579]

You have a very enjoyable real voice my dude, the AI guy has nothing on you! creating a video to show HOW exactly you could make AI content is a very cool concept and educational in a relatable way. Didn't know this was something i needed but now that you done it it seems obvious. Cheers and a big thank you mate!

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

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[@sbs3000]

As a writer, I'm also worried about the growing amount of text AI is generating, even in fiction! It's troubling from both professional and human spirit aspects. @4:43 I do like that yeti in power armor the AI came up with. That's pretty neat. @7:28 So there are two 4's (at least) on the middle dice and a 7 on the one on the right. I don't think those are tournament legal.

[@yourbrokengalaxy]

Did I miss it or did you not make an Abominable Intelligence reference??? Anyway, thanks for making this video I do Star Wars comedy/parody videos, and this kind of stuff makes me think my channel isn't long for this world. Have a great day.

[@rickyl3136]

I've started blocking IA generated videos of all kinds. I find it personally insulting to creators when the creative process of the work is turned more into a mad lips styled guessing game than an actual fun journey. I think the idea of making money by just popping some AI trash video but having no real energy expanded is going to cause a lot of damage to KZbin and end up killing a lot of hobby channels off of the don't wise up to the fact that they will get swarmed with content that no one watches. Basically a Facebook event.

[@erik_the_red-t5x]

If you can't take the time to make something I can't take the time to bother watching it..

[@luketfer]

I recently found a 'Fantasy World building/novel tips' channel and ALL of the thumbnail art was AI generated with the dudes face slapped infront of it. Like, I get it, making thumbnails is kind of annoying but surely you could just use book cover art or even stock fantasy art for your thumbnails instead of AI generated garbage.

[@paulsheldon8838]

When 2d artists told all of mini painter that it WILL affect them, they laughed.

[@kelpi4362]

Did the Warhammer YT just post an AI generated animated video to their main channel? "Never a Silent Night | Imperial Hymn" not linking to the vid since that is an comment flag by youtube. I posted a comment with a bunch of timestamps for suspicious moments now I dont see it anymore. It's mainly at 0:55 if you want to have a look. AI mentioning comments seem to be getting removed including comments I responded to taking about it being AI. I also just find it strange no one is talking about it. Even if its not AI, it is an animation style / look that guarantees people will talk about it.

[@spip-753]

allthough I'm in the hobby and intrested in videos this is (ironically or not) the first of your videos I got recomanded

[@ANGRYFACE118]

Honestly, I prefer human effort. I love it when you guys narrate your intros instead of having some British grimdark AI voice do it. For comedic purposes, I'm all for it, but when it comes to our hobby and just trying to make something fun and enjoyable to watch. I prefer hearing your voice.

[@RancidCat]

Just commenting for engagement against the machine. Great vid!

[@HasteHobbies]

funny experiment. You have a great voice btw.

[@SinOfAugust]

The good news that need be kept in mind here is that all this dystopian tech is ruinously expensive and loses money to them every time it’s used. And as they consume more and more training data, tech gets more expensive to run, not cheaper. It’s being propped up by investor hypefor the moment, as their own models cannot even remotely turn any profit. They are desperately trying to find some way to be financially viable before the investors start getting cold feet, and unless there’s some colossal breakthrough in the immediate future, time rapidly is running out.

[@Brickerbrack]

2:25 Another problem with AI narration tools is half the time, their pronunciation is either wrong, or inconsistent, or both. I'm half distracted by the weird AI narration in the test video that fluctuates between different levels of Scottish and American... The stunty Space Marines at 7:35 are kinda cute, and the novelty dice are fascinating! Yeah, as interesting as the concept is, it looked kinda pretty if you didn't look too close... but even the script sounded like a generic KZbin listicle. I can appreciate the idea of using AI to maybe help with prompts, but as a semi-Luddite creative myself, I just couldn't bring myself to pump out "work" that I barely had any hand in creating. Maybe it'd pay to sell my scruples a little more cheaply, but... 😜

[@Aconspiracyofravens1]

The no imagination part is a negative for all parties involved, especially the consumer forced to consume the garbage it puts out.

[@oldhammered]

Agreed, though to be fair nobody's being forced to consume anything. We could all just unplug and read a book if we wanted to.

[@MiniatureGameMontage]

I heard my bud Valentino! I’ve been using AI voice narration to set the stage for my battle reports. I still write it but the delivery is just so much better than what I can do.

[@RobOngrui]

We, as humans are conditioned to human voices - AI voices give me the creeps because they don't have the natural modulation a real human has - it's especially noticable when words repeat - they always sound exactly the same. It doesn't matter that you think you can't to better, but AI is always the worse choice.

[@paulsheldon8838]

I would rather hear "imperfect" human voice.

[@GloriousGrunt]

That Krampus mini is great!

[@TheKsalad]

Any warhammer video that uses any AI for any reason is creatively bankrupt shell of a person. I dont care if it's a painting video from a golden daemon winner using an AI generated thumbnail to hide the real mini, it's automatically garbage.

[@criticalcommenter]

What a moronic take. Sounds just as silly as the "airbrush is cheating" comments. It's a tool.

[@JevousGaming]

@@criticalcommenter Yup. These kinds of comments are getting outdated very quickly.

[@devononair]

I agree Ksalad, for the most part. It's yet another area of life where people have been given the tools to chip away at society and they've said, "thank you very much."

[@criticalcommenter]

@@devononair 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheKsalad]

@@JevousGaming Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for a pie you digital slave.

[@RedPilgrim.]

If a KZbinrs can't be bothered to script/film/create from their heart, audience can't be bothered to stay and watch either. KZbin put this vid on my feed, it'll be the last i see of it. A video may not be great at the beginning of a KZbinrs journey, but their sincerity in making their vids keeps the audience around. Good luck to you tho.

[@davidmartyn5044]

People are now comsumed by KZbin. People won't stop watching any time soon

[@shanatokisaki4596]

I wish this was true but tons of AI channels have popped up over the last few months and tons of their audience can not tell. and they just use ai to crank out tons of videos super fast and auto play and people not paying attention feeds them more and more. unfortunately at this point the only way to stop AI from taking over all youtube is mostly to just tell youtube your not okay with it they will continue to lean into it in hopes it will make larger profits for them.

[@walt_man]

oof we have to guard the actual creative future! Yikes, AI is going to make things so dull, lifeless and pointless... that's a true *dark future*!

[@40kNexus]

There are some well done AI channels but they require actual work, Creative input, Corrections, teaching it about the subject, and most importantly the actual video can NOT be AI generated. you still must actually edit the audio and visuals like you would a normal video. If you try doing it the easy way you'll end up with no views and no subs. Which means the little bit of work you did do was for nothing. Might as well put in some effort

[@TheOneWhoSometimesSaysOk]

Oh hell nah, the fans don't even want to paint anymore

[@OK-hl6qd]

Holy shit that AI voice sounds like that Star Trek KZbinr 🤣🤣🤣 Rowan J Coleman

[@Fusspilzsammler1]

Oh I see to make the Space Marines even superior they added a sixth finger ;)

[@LegioPanda]

I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate you on the incredible content you've been uploading! The quality is consistently top-notch, and it's clear that you put a lot of time and effort into every video. Your dedication to your craft is truly inspiring, and I'm so grateful to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Keep up the fantastic work - I'm excited to see what you have in store for us next! You get a cookie if you guess which AI wrote this comment

[@Higglebert]

what? people used to measure using a TAPE MEASURE? thank god those barbaric days are gone!

[@CorruptLogick]

I almost blacklisted your channel only because you mentioned AI in title.

[@Ghoulonoid2]

I enjoyed AI-narrated text to speech videos until they started to sound like real people. Weird how that era came and went so fast. AI probably won't end the world, but it might end the internet. If the internet is just a bunch of nonsensical arbitrary crap and every trend is metagamed into oblivion the minute it pops up, nobody will have any interest interacting with it. Maybe we'll all have to go outside again.

[@banjotoothlessbill]

Could we build AI that fight AI ? Like Counter-AI or something ?

[@pappnasehd9713]

Tech Heresy.

[@micheal4526]

Were any of the “rules from old editions” even real???

[@laguaridadelgremlin]

I want to like this video because I appreciate the criticism and the intent, but I loathe liking AI slop, however ironic

[@mr.bootsmann4842]

WTF.....This AI stuff demotivates me for creative projects and fell inferior...😅

[@Crust_Monster]

I'm not actually seeing many people who are willing to engage with AI generated content either as creators or viewers. The few that do are either obvious grifters, or the fashy incel-adjacent part of the hobby that nobody else want's anything to do with anyway. I'm cautiously optimistic that people are starting to see AI as the trash that it is and treating it as such.

[@EdAckley-j5v]

Dead Internet is REAL

[@paulsheldon8838]

With these "tools" there's less and less reason to consume internet content.

[@TheGreatCharlie123]

My dude I was writing a thesis on your downfall as a human being when I realised I skipped the part where you explained that this is a new functionality on KZbin. The irony of producing a video by AI about a hobby based in creativity had me cringing. Anyway, this AI things is going to ruin this platform in a couple of years or less. It's just going to be bots making AI videos to feed an self aware algorythm.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Same. It’s pretty frightening.

[@Maxsminiatures]

Were any of those rules real?

[@TheKsalad]

The AI thought TAPE MEASURES were an old weird rule, AI is much more A than I

[@andreasringqvist1731]

Psykers could explode or be possessed. Besides from that it's mostly bull...

[@FunkBastid]

Rise above the slop

[@yukidaruma6988]

I wouldn’t be too worries about it. I mean, sure, society as a whole is doomed where AI is concerned and how much we’re willing to give up. But at least within the hobbying world, I think there is a distinct point of diminishing returns with AI. Sure, there is some nice novelty, but I find it wears off extremely quickly. After the first few AI, it gets boring quick. I’d much rather see hand generated personal content so I think AI won’t overtake anything. Designers and companies like GW and WOTC are sure to shove it down our throats for a while but I think it’ll pass.

[@jakegoodall1157]

I wonder how many comments are AI generated too? :)

[@looselycollected7505]

AI sucks.

[@jimewelsh]

The emperor does not approve

[@ClericsWearRingmail]

Re: AI voice - I actually like your voice... 😆 You sound like someone I could game with at the local hobby shop - the AI voices sound... fake.

[@m.e.3862]

Seriously. I like the ASMR I get from his and Lynn's calm banter 😊

[@MrTumnus1987]

How about we get AI the fk out of our real world tactile hobby….this is the death of creativity in the YT hobby space.

[@axanax2534]

If the AI voice could have emulated Brent from Goobertown Hobbies, I'd be sold. 😅

[@oldhammered]

If Brent wanted to clone his own voice for text-to-speech, that's very easy to do.

[@TheDinohunterify]

AI? Goodbye

[@stormy7722]

My eyes glazed over after about 7 seconds. Yeahhhh not a fan. I mean if it can save you time editing, totally get it, but the voice over and images...nah.

[@oldhammered]

No, we won't be capitulating. We'll be like the human resistance fighting Skynet. Until the autonomous drones hunt us down, that is.

[@stormy7722]

@@oldhammered Cool. Hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas and a great Holiday!!!! Any hints on future bat reps or content?? :)

[@ribofen]

You are going down the wrong path.

[@mickeymalone7577]

This does not spark joy.

[@Kepora1]

And instead of making better content you're pulling the "old man yells at cloud" card

[@ThePitofSidLord]

I didn't subscribe for this kind of slop content. I'm out.

[@LegioPanda]

You wrote that comment with AI

[@bolicob]

@ThePitofSidLord he's literally critiquing that kind of slop content

[@saigancat]

Tell us you didn't actually watch the video without telling us you didn't watch the video.

[@ThePitofSidLord]

I know and don't care if he's critiquing it. At the end of the day he's putting this slop in my timeline and I don't want to see any of the trash for any reason, so I'm out, unsubscribed, and disliked.

[@benrunciman4399]

I would watch/listen to a whole video of obscure and interesting 40k rules, so long as its not AI. I like your voice and I like looking at your painted minis, especially the old ones