--- title: 'I Made YouTube Shorts with AI for 7 Days — Here''s What Happened' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=JS9LSn7rwow' video_id: 'JS9LSn7rwow' date: 2026-07-18 duration_sec: 807 channel: 'Alex Capital' --- # I Made YouTube Shorts with AI for 7 Days — Here's What Happened > Source: [I Made YouTube Shorts with AI for 7 Days — Here's What Happened](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JS9LSn7rwow) ## Summary The video documents a 7-day experiment where the creator used AI tools to produce short videos for TikTok and YouTube Shorts, aiming to test the viability of making money through AI-generated content without purchasing any courses. The results show that while AI can speed up content creation, it does not guarantee quick profits, and success requires experience and understanding of the market. ### Key Points - **Experiment Setup** [00:02] — The creator decided to test AI-generated content for 7 days without courses or magic schemes, using only neural networks to create short videos for TikTok and YouTube Shorts. - **Content Formula** [01:50] — The chosen method: GPT chat writes texts, neural networks generate videos, and monetization comes from platform monetization or driving traffic to a Telegram channel. - **First Two Days: Euphoria** [02:17] — GPT chat quickly provided ideas and scripts, saving time. The creator chose horror history as the theme because such videos get high views. - **Tools Used** [03:13] — GPT chat for scripts and prompts, Sora for image generation, 11 Labs for voiceover, Adobe Premiere or CapCut for editing, and Captions for subtitles. - **Initial Costs** [03:40] — Costs were nearly zero: Sora and GPT chat are free, 11 Labs offers free credits (renewable with new accounts), and only $15 spent on Captions for subtitles. - **Account Purchases** [06:16] — Bought TikTok accounts: one for 150 rubles (got blocked), another for 100 rubles. Used an old YouTube channel by hiding old videos and changing the name. - **Third Day Results** [07:08] — TikTok: first video got zero views, second 200, third 400. YouTube: first videos got 1,000-2,000 views, one reached 12,000 views but only 16 subscribers. - **Competition Realization** [08:50] — By day 5-6, realized many creators use AI to produce high-quality content, e.g., accounts creating AI-generated series with millions of views. - **Sixth Day Expenses** [10:25] — Total expenses: $15 for Captions, 200 rubles for TikTok accounts. No other costs. - **Final Results** [10:52] — Over 7 days, spent 5-6 hours creating videos plus 2 hours on setup. TikTok: 9 videos, 59 likes, 4 followers, best video 900 views. YouTube: 32,000 views, 40 subscribers, best video 20,000 views. - **Earnings** [12:52] — Zero dollars earned. The experiment showed no quick money; AI speeds up process but doesn't replace experience. ### Conclusion AI tools can accelerate content creation but do not guarantee instant income. Success requires market understanding, video editing skills, and consistent effort over months. ## Transcript . Neural networks can manage Instagram for you, churn out videos on YouTube, as if you just opened the GPT chart, pressed a few buttons, and the money started flowing into your pocket. And in theory, it really does sound [ __ ] awesome. But I became interested in something else. Look, every day I see videos like this in my recommendations , where I simply copied the Millionnik channel using only neural networks and started making money within a week, just by pressing a couple of buttons. What if you don’t listen to bloggers, don’t listen to YouTubers? Just go and check it all out yourself. So I did a simple experiment. Exactly seven days without courses, without communication, without magic schemes. In this video I'll show you what I did, what Nerocity I used, how long it took me, and, of course, the most interesting part, how much money I made from it. And a little spoiler for you. If you think this is easy money, you can turn off this video right now. Let's lay out the rules of the experiment right away so you don't have stupid questions and write nonsense in the comments. First, I created short videos for TikTok and YouTube short videos. Second, I used only neural networks. Thirdly, I didn’t buy any courses from bloggers or TikTokers. And there was no magic formula or magic wand that helped me get views. Fourth, I did everything the way ordinary people do, who believe in videos that with the help of neural networks you can earn $100 in one day. And lastly, I recorded every day how much I earned, what my expenses were, how much time I spent on it, and so on. And if in the end it working tool, I will say it outright. If it turns out that this is another scam and a scam for hamsters and some naive newbies and users, I will also say so right at the end of the video. What exactly did I do? I chose the most popular method that is currently being pushed on YouTube and TikTok. The formula is as simple as possible. GBT chat writes texts for me. Neural networks make short videos for me, and then they are monetized. Where and how can this be monetized? The first is monetization from TikTok and YouTube themselves. And the second is driving traffic, driving an audience, for example, to a Telegram channel. I won't go into too much exoticism. I just did the same thing that newbies would do if they start making their first YouTube channel. My first and second days were just euphoria. Everything happened very quickly. GPT chat wrote texts for me, gave me ideas and saved time. I came up with the channel name through GPT chat, I came up with the channel direction because I did extensive research, and GPT chat told me to make short stories, scary historical ones, etc., because those videos get crazy views. That's why I chose the theme of horror history for my short videos. They can be easily voiced using a neural network and a video sequence can be generated. Next, I'll definitely show you which neural networks I used, so I'm sitting and chatting in the GPT chat. It generates a story for me in a second , tells me how to make a visual for a video frame by frame and second by second, and immediately writes prompts for generation. And I look at all this and think: “Damn, why did n’t I use neural networks and GPT chat just to create videos before?” And it is at this stage that most people believe that the money is already somewhere nearby, somewhere close by, and that you are about to start earning. Now let me tell you very briefly about the structure I used to create the content. First: GPT chat was responsible for scenarios, prompts. Second. I also uploaded these same prompts to 42. I did the voiceover for my videos in 11 Labs. I talked about this neural network in my previous video to study how the human body freezes. The operations were performed without anesthesia, not out of cruelty. Now what were my costs in the first stage? Essentially, my costs were zero because Sora generates photos for free. Charge GPT is also free. I don't need some super version. 11 Laps gives you around 20-30 voiceovers per month, depending on the length of your text. And when I run out of free credits, I just get a new Google account and generate everything again, and I again have a shitload of free samples and credits to make new voiceovers. Next, I did the simplest video editing I've ever done in my life. I just threw in all these photos that the quarrel generated for me, seconds by seconds, as the GPT chat wrote to me . I uploaded it to the same Adobe Premiere or Capcat and added some background music. Let me show you clearly what it all looks like. Very briefly. That is, I simply drag and drop the voiceover that Neuro did for me Next, I also transfer all these pictures that the argument generated for me, inserting them according to the time codes that the GPT chat assigned to me. And so that I could have such smooth pictures and smooth transitions. What am I doing? Let me show you briefly. That is, I take, for example, a picture like this. Here I click here. Here I press two buttons. I also select a keyframe and just change the scale a little. That is, I increased the scale, and I got this beautiful transition. Then I added a little bit of these blurs. I have this thing called Atto X. It's some kind of additional effects for Adobe Premiere. This thing is also free and simply adds various effects. various camera blur, parallax effects, and so on. I added various background music along the bottom of the track that was suitable, but there was definitely something missing in these videos missing? Of course, there are not enough subtitles for this video, because many videos are watched without sound. And subtitles are absolutely essential to prevent I just took the video I had made and transferred it to a new neural network. These are Captions. She makes these very subtitles for my videos. And I got a fairly simple video with subtitles like these. I already had the paid version of Nero with subtitles that I had purchased. I paid $15 for it . It seems like it's possible to generate simple subtitles for free. You can find some analogs, you can make these subtitles for free in the same Capcat, but I will write down my costs, that I spent 15 dollars on this neural network. TikTok account. I bought my first TikTok account for 150 rubles. I already had 1,000 subscribers and they blocked me. That is 150 rubles. Mine went into the trash. I bought another account for 100 rubles. Absolutely new, clean, and I started uploading videos to it. I simply took my old abandoned YouTube channel , which also had subscribers, hid all the videos from it, changed the name and started posting shares there. Also, as I said earlier, Also, as I said earlier, I came up with the name of the channel through Charge GPT. Through Soro I made a logo for this channel. And of course, I posted all the additional materials for creating the video on my Telegram channel. All the neural networks that I use, everything convenient for you, will be packed in my cart. The link will be packed in my cart. The link will be in the comments. third day of the experiment. And let me quickly show you what I have achieved, what the intermediate results are. I'll probably start with TikTok. I'll post just a couple of videos there. My first video has zero views. That is, TikTok simply does not promote the new account or the new author in any way. That is, I know that there are those who warm up accounts. I didn't do that at all . That is, I simply bought an account and immediately started posting videos on it. doesn't work on TikTok because I've posted a few videos. The first one got zero views, the second one got about 200 views, the third one got 400 views. Of course , with such views, I won’t be able to outsell them with any traffic and I won’t earn anything from this . So, by the end of the third day with TikTok, I, of course, earned zero. Now let's move on to my YouTube. Things are much more interesting here. My first videos got between 1,000 and 2,000 views, and one video, well, at least shot up to 12,000 views. Again, this is complete [ __ ]. The video brought only 16 subscribers to the channel. Of course, there are no transitions to my Telegram channel, where, let's say, I will post the continuation of the story and, let 's say, somehow monetize this Telegram channel . Of course, no one has moved into it yet, so we're waiting for the fourth day. But on the plus side, I learned very quickly how to generate these videos and stories. That is, simply chbt already makes a storyboard for me, what frame, prompt. You can write prompts in Russian or English, it doesn't matter at all. Then I just throw all this into the quarrel. It choose the one I liked the most and then immediately send liked the most and then immediately send it to PremмьR for editing. my short videos and had posted six of the nine videos I had planned. And little by little you begin to understand: “You are not the only one who is so smart.” There's a ton of content created using neural networks, and it's much better quality than yours. For example, I found a couple of TikTok accounts that are practically churning out TV series using neural networks. Each of their videos is a continuation of the previous one. There is a plot, some main characters, and so on. And it gets millions of views. As an example, I attached my video on the left and a competitor’s video on the right. And the author is so worked up about every video, that's why he gets such crazy views. You also begin to understand that the competition is simply fierce. And Neroshi, of course, creates content quickly, but thousands of other authors are already creating similar content quickly. The sixth day of the experiment. On the sixth day I had already posted all my videos. I got nine of them. Views on TikTok make me want to puke. So far, none of my videos have even gotten 1,000 views. There just aren't even a thousand views. Although I expected from TikTok at least one video to get from 500 to a million views. This is, in principle, 100 rollers for one to fly. It is almost impossible to do this in 7 days clumsy and I couldn't do it . The TikTok account has only four followers and a couple of comments. Yes, we are still far from popularity and wealth . The YouTube channel is moving much more confidently. It's possible that he took a personal account with a big discount, and it was getting views right from the first video. I will definitely show the numbers from YouTube at the end of the video, at the end of the experiment. Now let's calculate my expenses on the sixth day. My expenses remained the same. I also spent 15 bucks on neural network so that I could have good subtitles in videos. I also spent about 200 rubles on buying TikTok accounts. And that's all. Now let's quickly move on to the seventh day. I'll show you my super results, I'll show you my super profits, and without further ado, let's show you the bare statistics. Over the course of 7 days, I spent approximately 5 to 6 hours creating videos. I also spent about 2 more hours buying TikTok accounts, channel designs, logos, and so on. And before I show you my awesome views, I want to show you what I've learned in these 7 days. But I realized one simple thing. Neural networks without experience will not make you a millionaire. The neural network will simply speed up your process, nothing more. Another conclusion is that without understanding the market, neurosities are simply useless. And neurons really help if you know what to do with them. I show the results immediately. TikTok results: nine videos, 59 likes, and four followers. The best video has 900 views. So, essentially, TikTok was a complete failure. The situation with YouTube is much more interesting. In the 7 days that I filmed, it got 32,000 views and brought me about 40 subscribers. My best video has almost 20,000 views and is still playing. And, by the way, its average duration is one minute and 9 seconds. And that's a whole lot. And essentially because of this, he swings hard. If it had been watched to 100%, it would have probably gotten over 100,000 views. The rest of the videos, even though they were also viewed quite well, essentially didn’t get big numbers. And I practically didn’t transfer it to my Telegram channel , because it doesn’t make sense yet, because in such a short period of time, well, it’s simply impossible to boost the channel and reach any kind of views, reach any kind of income. This needs to be done consistently over the course of several months. I understand, of course, that you want to believe the [ __ ] that those bloggers who sell courses on Telegram bots for $10,000, or $15,000 are telling you, that you'll achieve incredible reach in just a couple of days. But in reality, unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Without experience using neural networks, without experience creating awesome video editing, working on retention, well, you will get views like this, maybe even worse than mine. Well, for those who didn't understand, of course, I didn't make a damn thing from this video . That is, zero dollars. The main takeaway from this video is that there is no quick money here. I hope I've calmed your wildest dreams a little, but the important thing I want to say is that it's possible to make money in this niche, and that's the most important takeaway from this video. Be sure to write in the comments if you liked the format. 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