Start-Up Companies Offer To Generate AI Videos

In order to generate increasing amount of passive income from social media without much effort, many businesses are racing into the AI era.

Social apps are now flooded with many AI-generated content as digital hustlers and scalpers seek to drive up views and earn money from creator-rewards programs or by adding affiliate links underneath posts.

However, if you think there's a lot of AI content on TikTok today, make sure to buckle up. A new crop of AI startups like Faceless.video and AutoShorts.ai could be poised to turbocharge the amount of generative artificial intelligence on the web.

Those companies, along with a slew of competitors like StoryShort, offer products that automatically post AI-generated content to social-media accounts for a fee. The output rate ranges from three auto-posted videos a week to 120 videos a month for a single TikTok or YouTube account.

It's set-it-and-forget-it — but for the creator economy.

Faceless.video launched a little less than a year ago with a goal to automate "the entire process of being a content creator," Jacob Seeger, one of its cofounders, told Business Insider.

"What traditionally used to take somebody tons of hours to dive in and learn how to edit a video or search through Reddit and try to scour some good stories to find, now essentially the platform handles all that for you," Seeger said.

The company asks users to choose a story theme for their daily video series. Stories can be scary or motivational, designed as bedtime tales, or used to inspire a "success grindset." They can also be drawn from a web search or a subreddit.

In one example shared by the company, a creator posted a religious video that garnered close to 400,000 views on TikTok. The same creator also posts an AI-generated video series on their account centered on examples of cheating on one's partner.

Once a topic is selected, the company generates daily videos with a story script, a voiceover, a background track, and accompanying AI-generated images formatted to qualify for monetization on TikTok or YouTube Shorts. The company charges US$ 30 a month for daily AI-generated videos and US$ 45 to post twice a day.