Ep. 3188 - Q&A: “Can you run a YouTube channel with only AI voices and scripts?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Can a faceless, AI-voiced show win viewers and ad dollars? Today we break down platform rules, audience psychology, and the tiny legal print you can’t ignore when the “host” is synthetic.
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| 0:00.0 | business owners are built differently and there's nothing more satisfying than your business keeping up with you. |
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| 0:46.5 | Lemonada. |
| 0:51.5 | Once upon a time, a YouTube channel needed a real person, a ringlight, a catchphrase, |
| 1:01.0 | probably some other equipment as well. But the whole point is, in 2025, you can spin up a |
| 1:05.7 | short form series with nothing but prompts, a text to speech engine, and royalty-free clips. In other words, |
| 1:12.6 | you can make your YouTube series entirely with AI, but is this a good idea? It sounds hands-off, |
| 1:19.1 | it sounds scalable, but will it fly with viewers and more importantly with YouTube's monetization team? |
| 1:24.4 | We've got a caller who wants to know if an all AI production can build trust, stay compliant, |
| 1:29.2 | and actually make money. Can a faceless AI voiced show when viewers and ad dollars? Is this |
| 1:34.5 | already happening? Is everything an episode on Black Mirror? Let's talk about it. YouTube channel |
| 1:39.8 | with only AI voices and scripts. That's our topic. Stay tuned for the detailed question and my answer. |
| 1:47.1 | One characteristic that successful side hustlers have is they are curious and they are willing to |
| 1:53.1 | take action on their curiosity. So I guess that's two characteristics, but still they're kind of built in. |
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