ChatGPT was recently asked what it would say to humans if it could give a TED Talk. It gave a surprisingly thoughtful answer that AI storyteller Ari Kuschnir and artist Schuyler Brown then brought to life. The result combines the latest AI tools with the deeply human craft of storytelling in a stirring reminder of what makes us special.
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@keegan7736
April 17, 2026 at 8:37 pm
get rekt a.i
@crystalsolis
April 17, 2026 at 8:41 pm
TED Talks should be written by humans and recited by humans. Not AI.
@meghanjannicola605
April 17, 2026 at 8:45 pm
Ew
@Skeldann
April 17, 2026 at 8:47 pm
History is written by the conquerors, yet the stories of the fallen have just as much merit…
And Chat GPT understands this more than most humans do…
Artificial Intelligence doesn’t scare me….
Willful IGNORANCE does…
@Rinzlov
April 17, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Yup, you managed to make it finally – force me to unsubscribe. I saw a lot of watered down, human made, low effort, low quality, TED talks in past few years. But this time – you didn’t even give us a human with a lousy talk, just a generated video. 0 humanity, 0 meaning, 0 effort. Goodbye.
@RS-Super-Dev
April 17, 2026 at 8:49 pm
*Disclaimer: No actual neurons were fired in the making of this regurgitation of human creativity
@Pretzelnoobie
April 17, 2026 at 8:52 pm
Never try this again. Why..?
@midnightsoup4673
April 17, 2026 at 8:53 pm
🙁
@RosieRoCoCoa
April 17, 2026 at 8:54 pm
Just no. If you post another Ai video I will insubscribe.
@jones9385
April 17, 2026 at 8:57 pm
🤢
@sk_sk-c
April 17, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Finally a reason to unsubscribe after not watching a ted talk in years
@Slayr.
April 17, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Gay
@BinaryReader
April 17, 2026 at 8:59 pm
Slop Slop.
@shield_maiden_
April 17, 2026 at 9:00 pm
This is the end of TED. We come to hear humans speak, not technology parroting a collection of what humans have said, potentially with mistakes. Really dumb move.
@トワイライト_0
April 17, 2026 at 9:00 pm
Everything in this video is something we all know already as humans, didn’t need an AI to tell us what we already know
@gemyellow
April 17, 2026 at 9:01 pm
Which exec’s idea is this?
@john15399
April 17, 2026 at 9:02 pm
like im gonna let a robot tell me what the stars are put there for
@TrainerAshNZ
April 17, 2026 at 9:03 pm
Please stop
@davyjonesjonesdavy
April 17, 2026 at 9:11 pm
Sarò sbrigativo perché poi devo andare ad ubriacarmi quindi, sinteticamente: si giocherella con la sintesi probabilistica del linguaggio come fosse davvero una reale comprensione empatica. Fanculo a passi lunghi e ben distesi.
@mildredbangtree
April 17, 2026 at 9:14 pm
I, for one, welcome our Insect Overlords.
@not_named_dan
April 17, 2026 at 9:17 pm
Large Language Models do not have sentience, do not reflect, and do not have any wisdom to impart. LLMs use tokens to guess the most-correct next word of their response based on the data they were trained on. They are simply collating data from the literature, poetry, quotes, films, and other human-made media they were trained on, a significant portion of which was obtained illegally.
The general public needs more information about what AI actually is and how it works, not videos like this one that perpetuate the misleading idea that LLMs are some sort of higher intelligence.
(This is not to say that AI will never be sentient, but the methods and models we see today are not it. Those who say they are are either misinformed or swept up in the hype that tech companies rely on to keep investor cash flowing.)
@ghostc1pher
April 17, 2026 at 9:23 pm
This is perhaps supposed to sound profound and noteworthy (I don’t know, just a guess) but AI talking about matters of lived experience rings hollow. It’s a performance.
@jillvalentine5706
April 17, 2026 at 9:25 pm
Ai was supposed to solve problems not create new ones
@aik51912
April 17, 2026 at 9:27 pm
I don’t like this at all. Freaks me out.I hope this is the last AI Ted Talk.
@cosmiclettuce
April 17, 2026 at 9:28 pm
I’m an AI positivist. IMO it’s at least as useful as electricity.
There’s at least three kinds of AI: helpful, harmful, and useless (through misuse). This presentation is, for sure, the latter.
This kind of useless blathering and nonstop weird surreal images will not win hearts and minds, nor will it help normalize the concepts of AI.
2:54 you even messed this up. This image was taken by the Artemis II crew when the Earth was *setting* behind the Moon, not rising as indicated here. don’t be a goof and at least play the earth/moon video in the right direction.
If you must have AI content (which I think you should), please make a separate channel for it. I’ll gladly subscribe.
@cri.682
April 18, 2026 at 3:59 pm
TED talk missed so badly with this one
@chetlordremmert
April 18, 2026 at 4:02 pm
I wonder if the lack of a human introducing the experience we were about to have is adding to why this feels in questionable taste.
@dailyfocus1950
April 18, 2026 at 4:14 pm
How much did Sama Altman from ClosedAI pay you guys to post this Slop?
@dailyfocus1950
April 18, 2026 at 4:19 pm
Ideas worth sharing, wait scratch that, Slop worth sharing!
@theinventor5100
April 18, 2026 at 4:47 pm
Hopefully TED will not use AI anymore going forward.
@gambeeno817
April 18, 2026 at 4:51 pm
Truly harrowing
@Zoomzoomboi
April 18, 2026 at 5:11 pm
We got TED ragebait before gta6, damn
@Zoomzoomboi
April 18, 2026 at 5:12 pm
I also want to beg Youtube to bring back the dislike count specifically for this video.
@TED you can also release the stats as a form of apology to your fellow loyal nerds.
@mo337
April 18, 2026 at 5:17 pm
WE WON’T HAVE ANY CLEAN WATER FOR THIS CRAP. Are you serious? Who owns Ted Talk?
@mo337
April 18, 2026 at 5:21 pm
Unsubscribed.
@C.4.2.5
April 18, 2026 at 5:37 pm
I LOVE TEDTALKS!
@shartman1247
April 18, 2026 at 5:48 pm
nice knowing ted..
@DattaramMiruke
April 18, 2026 at 6:17 pm
Hopefully AGI will understand how cruel and evil humans can be towards one another and coax the humanity in the right direction lest they use the AGI to destroy one another. Where Danil the robot when we need him.
@vicaya6141
April 18, 2026 at 6:41 pm
Here’s hoping a data center is built near whoever had the idea to make this
@DG-LG
April 18, 2026 at 6:44 pm
The blurb under this video is such bs too.
@scottenosh4548
April 18, 2026 at 6:52 pm
“As it was in the days of Noah…”
@حارس_شاہ
April 18, 2026 at 7:15 pm
NO NO NO!!!
@tomasmontana4633
April 18, 2026 at 7:41 pm
Yeah, wrong move TED. You can’t keep your revenue without paying human beings to do the work it takes to produce the talks. Better luck next time (just don’t try it with GenAI)
@ThriftyPirate
April 18, 2026 at 7:43 pm
No, thank you.
@RyanChristopherson-y2r
April 18, 2026 at 8:07 pm
Well played.
Some comments express how awful this is, but I think it’s a brilliant move to show how laughably bad AI is in comparison with real humans. It makes you really stop and appreciate all the real speakers at TED. Well played.
@LyzrdWzrd
April 18, 2026 at 8:14 pm
SLOP Talk
@blackspiderguyadvice001
April 18, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I love this, can’t wait for more
I like how this is Chat gbt’s view of humanity…
Very insightful
@Emily-bb9cm
April 18, 2026 at 8:47 pm
Clicked just to leave a comment saying this is atrocious and soulless and I’m very disappointed in TED
@mrtotorob.
April 18, 2026 at 8:51 pm
Slop
@haroldoftherocks933
April 18, 2026 at 9:08 pm
Slop. What a waste of time. This has no artistic or cultural value.
@C2theAK
April 19, 2026 at 1:57 pm
…and today, just like that, my dream of a TedTalk died and I have unsubscribed to TED which I have loved EVERY part of for the last 13 years. Thanks for the unnecessary slop. 😢
@17jeffclark
April 19, 2026 at 2:05 pm
“Edited by” …..In other words, they used a human to make this make sense.
@arczeroes
April 19, 2026 at 2:10 pm
If you have the “show dislikes again” addon installed, it currently shows a 1.9k to 7k like to dislike ratio at currently 55k views.
Just for those who want to know.
@hh212312343
April 19, 2026 at 3:01 pm
Utterly disappointed that you decided upon a Ai slop thing. Ted talks used to educate and engage, now this? Sorry to see you moving away from content made by humans into something that simply isn’t anyway aligned to what you used to make and for that matter isn’t made by you. Unsubbed.
@super_terram
April 19, 2026 at 3:04 pm
Never do this again. LLMs are NOT AI.
@hvddl7
April 19, 2026 at 3:20 pm
Hearing an AI talk about the strength it takes to repair rather than destroy is such a powerful message for 2026. It’s a reminder that even when we use AI to manage our content or businesses, we should be using tools like Omnely to enhance our ‘tenderness’ and storytelling, not replace it with something soulless.
@raydasmoshfranco
April 19, 2026 at 3:37 pm
Aye this is trash! No more of this.
@brumbogan
April 19, 2026 at 3:49 pm
bye bye ted
@klte1
April 19, 2026 at 4:00 pm
I hate how AI-generated footage has all these inconsistencies and oddities.
0:27 cave drawings look like fantasy creatures straight from Harry Potter
0:29 huge army of cave men hunting an elephant on the African Savannah
0:47 AI hands
1:36 gibberish on pamphlets
1:54 A wounded man in a factory with a bandage with the stars and the stripes on them (why?)
2:03 gibberish (again)
2:04 chainsaw is held vertically, yet tree is cut down (??)
Also, note how most of the authority figures and doctors are white whereas all the poor people in the footage are POC. Don’t use AI to create stock footage.
@breakbeat_hardcore
April 19, 2026 at 5:01 pm
“We are formless. We are the very descipline and morality that Americans invoke so often. How could anyone eliminate us? As long as this nation exists, so will we.”
@wyclefohara4169
April 19, 2026 at 5:11 pm
If I spot a i in any more ted talks I’m unsubscribing😂
@NemoNietzsche
April 19, 2026 at 5:25 pm
What bull 💩
@nitinyadav1795
April 19, 2026 at 5:54 pm
I hope i could see the dislike count
@LAZERDISC
April 19, 2026 at 6:03 pm
Is there anything in this video that isn’t a cliche?
@Russwhooiulian
April 19, 2026 at 6:33 pm
Wtf…who had the idiot idea to do this idiocracy? Thats not a talk, wtf is happening with the world?????
@TonyGo-w1e
April 19, 2026 at 6:41 pm
Just Stop
@victoryyshh2
April 19, 2026 at 7:02 pm
don’t embarrass yourself and delete it
@its1979yall
April 19, 2026 at 7:11 pm
……This AI doesn’t understand……………………..
@Ghostblock
April 19, 2026 at 7:13 pm
Why would you make this?
@仲又直
April 19, 2026 at 7:28 pm
気持ちが悪く、不気味だ。そして薄っぺらい。
@nicholasramirez8767
April 19, 2026 at 7:32 pm
AI Slop
@qyyna
April 19, 2026 at 7:38 pm
i hate this
@qyyna
April 19, 2026 at 7:39 pm
unsubbed :3
@Anna54321-l
April 19, 2026 at 9:01 pm
🤮
@rierie3962
April 19, 2026 at 9:24 pm
dont ever do this again