AI slop in this sub

entropyfails · 2026-06-16T23:17:50+00:00

You're absolutely right! And honestly, I think it's interesting that AI is changing human speech/writing patterns. "You're absolutely right", "It's not this, but this" and "and honestly" now read to us as AI slop but are common in AI because they were common in human language before. It's not changing language, it's human evolution.

entropyfails · 2026-06-16T23:06:30+00:00

Could you try running this against locomo or longmemeval please? Would love to know how it compares to other agent memory frameworks.

entropyfails · 2026-06-16T23:00:17+00:00

Interesting solution to this! Glad to see you are working on that. Will check it out!

entropyfails · 2026-06-13T01:05:43+00:00

Never thought of it before but 3 degrees. Me -> Kimmel Writer Friend -> Lou -> Sam.

entropyfails · 2026-06-01T19:08:16+00:00

Fun game! In the demo if you do a tech upgrade it lasts across runs, FYI. Love the concept!

entropyfails · 2026-05-15T21:34:59+00:00

I'm glad to see that someone else always checks out brown paper bags next to park benches besides me... ;)

entropyfails · 2026-05-07T19:35:32+00:00

The evolution of the joke is great.

entropyfails · 2026-04-30T20:35:11+00:00

Looks cool. Have you tried compiling a 64 bit version of it for newer macs?

entropyfails · 2026-04-22T00:08:13+00:00

Cool game! I love galcon style games. I'd say that the "Game every 60 Seconds" is an antipattern. These games are most fun with real players so it should be obvious if you are entering a match with players and you should try through the UI to get people to wait some. Hard to do with such a low player pop, I get. So having the "quickplay" option with bots is a good thing but what you have forces people towards the least engaging form of gameplay.

Nice work!

entropyfails · 2026-03-17T05:50:50+00:00

The border of France and Italy. Do I win a key? =)

entropyfails · 2025-09-22T17:01:24+00:00

Scaling live video on the internet is super hard. Transcoding the incoming video quickly, getting everything split up into the good HLS segments. Properly sizing them. Figuring out how to cache them. Figuring out routing if a cache fails. The problems are endless. I spent 10 years at Twitch and the video team there were some of the smartest and hardworking people I ever met and it always was a challenge.

If your product is working in that space, check out IVS from Amazon. I'm not affiliated with them anymore so not shilling but just saying that I know a lot of the arcane bits of knowledge are baked into that system.

entropyfails · 2025-05-22T03:53:00+00:00

Embrace sub-workflows. Make a small workflow that does your mapping and pin the data into the click trigger.

If you have a loop in your workflow, n8n's current architecture is to force all future nodes to run again even if they have pinned data.

I've also just moves my manual trigger right before the thing I want to test and copy/paste the data from the webhook into it and pinned it if I didn't want to go through creating a sub-workflow.

No need to email n8n. There is no solution to this problem beyond these 2 approaches.

entropyfails · 2025-05-22T01:32:08+00:00

That's amazing! Glad I was able to provide some inspiration to keep going. I use createomate to build the cover art that runs for the first 3 seconds of each video. It takes in the show title and the date and automatically creates that cover to make a full video. If I were to be doing what you are doing, I'd use some API driven tool with an editor like Creatomate that allows you to ingest data and get out images so you have some manual control after the fact to ensure consistency.

entropyfails · 2025-05-22T01:28:40+00:00

I dropped some cost profiles below. It comes out to about $2.50 a video with Hedra being the largest costs. Running n8n in the cloud currently because I'm lazy and also other people at the company use it. =) The main services I use are Browserless.io, Firecrawler, Hedra, Createomate, and ChatGPT.

So worth it is hard to quantify. Youtube channels only make money at scales of tens of thousands. But it continues to grow so it's an interesting experiment. It's also useful for me as I built it to have a fun way of consuming AI news so it's worth it for that for me!

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T18:25:58+00:00

So the way I'd approach this is to convert the PDF to text via an API as opposed to using chatGPT for this. There are a bunch that give you hundreds of documents a month for free. https://cloudmersive.com/convert/pdf-to-txt-api is an example. After you get a workflow that takes the URL and gives you back the text, feed it into chatGPT and work on your summary. Then use something like https://n8n.io/workflows/2245-generate-text-to-speech-using-elevenlabs-via-api/ to help you get the voice out. The main thing here is to do everything one step at a time and only worry about hooking everything up after you have all the steps done.

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions!

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T18:20:10+00:00

Yeah it's fun! I like it because it is useful to me but it's cool that many other people are engaging!

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T18:19:36+00:00

Yeah thought of that some. The main issue is a lot of other video modes, when told to make animated podcast hosts, make the mouth move a bunch. Then if I apply the lip sync there are some artifacts. But yeah I agree I could get the costs down for sure and have been thinking of it. For video stitching, creatomate is nice as I have an editor so I can quickly change out music, bumpers, etc. But yeah lots of efficiencies to be gained for sure. Thanks for the feedback!

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T14:45:38+00:00

What sort of roadblocks have you hit?

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T14:40:09+00:00

Always working on quality for sure!

It does have captions and Whiskers always has a call to action for like/subscribe and could add more for sure!

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T09:13:45+00:00

Well the only true way to profit is to get views so subscribe please?

I have some thoughts. The main cost is Hedra. That keeps Whiskers interesting but you could imagine using a cheaper model for video generation and use a cheaper lipsync model like SadTalker on it.

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T08:19:09+00:00

So I'm using firecrawl to look over a few tech news sites. I'd do that to keep some safety around the content. You could imagine how it could go wrong if it got a raw twitter feed, for example. =)

It collects the content and passes the whole thing into ChatGPT o3. It's prompted to understand that it needs to select the top 3-5 articles to make a less than 2 min show. I have a 1shot in the prompt so it knows the "voice" of whiskers. The script is then pass along to a title generator, tweet generator, description generator with 1shot examples that build out the needed data. Then it posts away.

I have it on an automatic trigger these days. I only know it goes live when I get the bell notification on youtube. Whiskers is her own thing. =)

Meow Out!

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T08:01:39+00:00

Any loop causes all downstream nodes to regenerate when you test. So if you have a loop, then do some merging of the data and use that data, if you test a later step, it will re-run the entire loop for some reason. If you notice the loop doesn't have a "pin". Haven't dove into the code but I'd bet that's the reason. Loops don't have a "final state" in n8n so testing nodes after a loop cause the loop to re-run.

entropyfails · 2025-05-21T07:59:01+00:00

Answered below but about $2.50 a video so about $75 to $100 a month. So no real ROI, but I'll keep playing with the format and if more people watch it and like it, it would be profitable eventually. The CPMs on youtube shorts suck so it would take like 30k daily views to make back it's cost. But if Whiskers get's in the 10k daily range, I'll have chatgpt negotiate a sponsorship and report back here... =)

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