Alexandra S. Levine
Jan 14, 2026 – 5.00am
Monique Hinton rubs her fingers together in one of her recent YouTube videos, signalling to her million-plus followers on the platform that she has a moneymaking business idea for them.
She first asks ChatGPT to spit out “simple, repetitive” children’s song lyrics with “playful nonsense words like ‘la la,’ ‘na na’ or ‘clap clap’”, then plugs the results into a separate artificial intelligence video generator. Minutes later, the tool has packaged it all into a colourful, animated reel of smiling children, animals and shapes jumping in a circle and dancing on a stage surrounded by butterflies, balloons, rainbow swirls, sparkling fireworks, flashing lights, floating musical notes and falling confetti.
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Bloomberg Businessweek