There is a difference between using AI to draft a video you would have made anyway, and standing up a sludge farm because a thread said RPM is free money.

The second one races to the bottom with everyone else who bought the same prompt pack. Platforms eventually notice. Audiences notice sooner.

Caution, not avoid: tools are real, some channels will earn something, and the honest version looks like media work — research, taste, and a point of view — with a generator in the timeline. The factory fantasy is the part we file under fiction.