First, let's start with actual US copyright law, which is very clear on the concept of "style".
 

Quote:310.2 Aesthetic Value, Artistic Merit, and Intrinsic Quality
In determining whether a work contains a sufficient amount of original authorship, the
U.S. Copyright Office does not consider the aesthetic value, artistic merit, or intrinsic quality of a work. H.R. REP. NO. 94-1476, at 51 (1976) , reprinted in 1976 U.S.C.C.A.N. at5664. For example, the Office will not look for any particular style of creative expression. Likewise, the Office will not consider whether a work is visually appealing or written in elegant prose.

As the Supreme Court noted, “it would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained
only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial
illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits.” Bleistein v. Donaldson
Lithographing Co., 188 U.S. 239, 251 (1903).

ScaleNut is the best combo of SEO tools and AI writing helper I've seen, and I've tested quite a few. Plus, it's the most reasonably priced.

This is why ScaleNut has been, and still is, one of only two affiliate links on my Content Silo and SEO Silo pages.

ScaleNut has some type of "urgency" with this offer that I'm not clear on...but right now you can get 70% off, plus some other extras, any of their paid plans, if you pay for a year. Then it's 65% and 60%. I'm not sure when.

That's only $24 a month for ScaleNut Pro, with unlimited text and all the features, including SEO.

I started SEO in 1996 got my start in IM creating and selling content creation and SEO tools a few years later. I've done this as long as anyone, and longer than almost everyone. ScaleNut gets my highest recommendation for SEO content creation.

It creates better content than the other AI writers I've tested, and it has SEO features that some of the premium SEO/keyword services offer. No one else combines them both as well.

But, it isn't magic. Even if you could smash a magic button, someone else would smash it twice...and then someone else would write a smashbot to keep smashing it.

You can't just paste in "how to train a dog" and expect a 2000 word, useful article.

ScaleNut is a tremendous asset, especially at $24-$32 a month with the extras...if you understand and utilize a few simple things, which I've posted about in the Kings and Queens of Content VIP.

If you get the Pro or Growth Plan, let me know and I'll give you full access to the KQ VIP.

You simply can NOT find a better combo of content tools, tips, SEO than the KQ and ScaleNut.

See "Cruise Mode" - Watch this 4 min video at 2x speed (2 minutes) to see for yourself what I mean by "directing". Cruise mode is a highlight of Scalenut, but there are many other features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f2MPKJkkro
 
https://scalenut.com/?via=seo-content - My aff link...in case you didn't know.

The current social media "debate" seem to be, which is better, humans or AI or creating written content.

IMO, it isn't one or the other...it isn't You vs The Machine.

It's both. You're a tag team. ScaleNut is your sidekick.

The way ScaleNut creates and presents options, at the very least, gives great outlines for you writers or to send to freelancers and assistants. IMO, ScaleNut is best used as a "tag team" partner, adding your human intelligence, experiences and preferences, when they come to you quickly, combined with ScaleNut's best results.

Even if you're already a member of the KQ VIP, you still should really consider ScaleNut...and let's talk about it in the KQ.

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If you have Microsoft Office 365 you don't need to pay for AI text to speech...or stock music, video and images for that matter.
 
MS bought an app called ClipChamp about a year ago. It has really good text to speech features that I've been using for a while. The good news is MS just added Clipchamp to Office 365 at no extra cost.

In addition to good AI text to speech, Clipchamp also is a backdoor to StoryBlocks with access to (some of?) their stock video and music.
ClipChamp is also good at creating videos, especially shorts, in different formats for social media.

I've recommended paying for Clipchamp in the past on this forum, but if you have 365 now you don't have to pay.

https://clipchamp.com/

Should graphics created by computers be considered art? What do you think?

The argument against computer generated graphics is that there is no emotion by the computer, and art is all about emotion.

A good comparison I came across was using AI for graphics is like being the director of a movie. You don't really do anything yourself except tell others what to do. This is pretty much the same as using AI for graphics. We consider actors and writers to be artists, but is the director also an artist?

I like Bob Ross' attitude. Bob Ross was a well-known artist in the US and had a TV show that taught people to paint. He would create 3 paintings per show and after each show he would just toss each paining into a pile. For him, the act of just painting was the pleasure and he didn't care nearly as much about the painting (noun) as he did painting (verb).

This is how I feel about AI art. I'm not artistic in the sense that when I try to draw or paint something, the pencil doesn't go where I see it in my mind. A straight line isn't a straight line. And it gets worse from there.

But I do think of myself as being creative. AI art makers let me create things that I like creating and I find interesting. I also find images created by others using AI interesting and convey emotions and ambience.

For me, AI is art, just different from more traditional media.

Here's a really good video with a quick intro and rating for over 20 AI text to art tools. You can play it at 2x speed.



Google Imagen/Parti (Unreleased) https://parti.research.google/
Open AI Dall-E 2 (Closed Beta) https://openai.com/dall-e-2/
Stable Diffusion (Closed But Soon to Open Beta) https://stability.ai/beta-signup-form
Simulacrabot (Closed Alpha) https://github.com/JD-P/simulacra-aes...
Midjourney (Free Trial, paid access) https://www.midjourney.com/app/
Shonenkov AI (Free to Use) https://t.me/shonenkovAI (JOIN MY DISCORD FOR LINK)
Meta Make-A-Scene (very Closed Beta) Not available
Microsoft VQ Diffusion (Free to use) https://replicate.com/cjwbw/vq-diffusion
Deep AI Text to Image (Free Access) https://deepai.org/machine-learning-m...
MindsEye beta (by multimodal.art) (Free to use) https://multimodal.art/mindseye
CrAIyon (Free to use) https://www.craiyon.com/?utm_source=s...
Min-dalle (Free & Paid) https://replicate.com/kuprel/min-dalle
Dall E Flow (Free to use) https://colab.research.google.com/git...
Wombo (Free & Paid) https://app.wombo.art/
Laion AI Erlich (Free & Paid) https://replicate.com/laion-ai/erlich
Latent Diffusion (Free to use) https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimo...
Glid-3-xl (Free & Paid) https://replicate.com/jack000/glid-3-xl
Night Cafe (Free & Paid) https://creator.nightcafe.studio/explore
Disco Diffusion (Free & Paid) https://replicate.com/nightmareai/dis...
Cog View 2 (Free & Paid) https://replicate.com/thudm/cogview2
Pixray (Free & Paid) https://replicate.com/pixray/text2image
Hot Pot AI (free & Paid) https://hotpot.ai/art-maker
Nvidia gaugan2 (Free to Use) http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/

I've posted about ClipChamp before and highly recommend it for text to speech. However, it's also the best source of stock audio I've found, and I've checked out at least a dozen other resources.

With the paid version, starting at $9 a month or $72 per year, they give you "unlimited audio", songs, music, efx. It also has a free no-hassle version where you can check out the premium audio files, but can't add them to your videos. And they do have some free audio files.

When I check stock audio sources I like to use the keyword "celtic" because it isn't the most popular form of music but it's not obscure either. ClipChamp's selection has both quality and quantity. Use your own search terms in various stock audio sites and compare price, selection and quality for yourself.

https://clipchamp.com/

A quick note to let you know about a really good free deal from Shareware On Sale.The software creates "flip books" from PDFs and is called Flip PDF Plus Pro and has good reviews on Capterra (a software rating site).

It's normally $99 (Their site says $399?), but you can get it free for the next day and a half or so. So you need to act fast.

https://sharewareonsale.com/s/free-flip-...0-discount

Here's the description from the page above:

"Flip PDF Plus Pro is a powerful feature-rich flipbook maker with a multimedia editor. You are able to create inspiring page-turning books to display smoothly on iPad, iPhone, Android devices and desktop. Get started with stunning pre-designed templates, fully customize your digital brochure or catalog with interactive effect by adding multimedia like YouTube videos, images, phone number and hyperlink. Everyone can generate impressive flipbooks easily."

Note that I'm not affiliated with this offer in any way. I just want to let you know of another (free) option for creating content.

I like viewing Youtube videos with younger audiences watching and reacting to older movies.

If you have 20 minutes, check out this millennial as she watched The Exorcist for the first time. She's a really talented reactor, and her reaction is part humor and part horror. Yes, the video has a lot of adult language and situations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8Dn44z6tQ&t=1027s

Kurt, you probably would know this better than anyone in my sphere. Do you have any ideas about how to get in touch with a big dog like Mike Tyson. Yeah, I know hundreds of thousands of dollars. But just for giggles how would you do it? This would be for a 10-minute Q&A or something similar.

Thanks.

• AmbientVids Titles Keyword Density - CVS file with the "densities" of the most used words in these video titles. This is not the typical keyword research. These are the keywords these creators are actually using.
   
  
• Most Relevant Keywords - I scraped over 50 of the most popular YouTube channels that create ambient videos and came up with more than 4700 titles. I then ran just these titles through a keyword density checker to see which words and phrases actual creators use the most for their ambient videos.
   
  
• List of Channels - Here's a list of over 50 channels you can use for ideas and research.
   
  
• 4700 Video Titles - A list of just the video titles. Perfect for keyword selection and content ideas.
  

• Decent video editing software.
  
• Audacity free audio editor
  

• WIN software for $50. I'm NOT an affiliate for this program, just a satisfied customer.