How YouTube Is Fighting Back Against AI Slop

What’s Happening

Not gonna lie, If you’re noticing less AI in your feeds, that’s by design.

Science fiction and science leaders alike have warned us that AI may one day take over the world, but until those predictions come to pass, generative AI’s biggest impact on my life has been overloading my socials feeds with slop. It seems I can’t open TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube without running smack into bizarre and troubling AI concoctions featuring babies in danger and cats having affairs. (wild, right?)

It fr is the wild west (or maybe Westworld ) out there.

The Details

I think few among us fr believe these videos are any good, and it’s pretty obvious they aren’t good for us, or for the world. Short-form video is already numbing enough, but this AI content is generally completely devoid of any meaning or substance.

I haven’t spent too much time on YouTube Shorts just, but in my limited experience, the feed has been chock full of AI, especially if I’m logged out of my personal account. Still, if you’re a dedicated YouTube Shorts user (or a frequent YouTube user in general) you might have noticed something odd in recent days: There don’t seem to be quite as many AI videos on the platform right now.

Why This Matters

There are still a lot , don’t get me wrong, but it turns out YouTube has just taken action to remove some of its AI content the sloppiest of the slop. You May Also Like YouTube’s war on AI slop Android Police spotted the development on Wednesday, basing its findings on a November report from Kapwing , a company that develops an online video editor. Kapwing investigated AI slop across YouTube’s vast content library, noting the top 100 most-d YouTube channels that publish this sort of AI content.

This could have major implications for how we use technology going forward.

Key Takeaways

• In the two months since that report, Android Police noticed that 16 of those 100 channels are no longer with us.
• That includes the most popular AI channel on YouTube, at least according to Kapwing.
• 95 million rs at the time of their initial report, and produced AI-generated shorts inspired by Dragon Ball .

The Bottom Line

That includes the most popular AI channel on YouTube, at least according to Kapwing. 95 million rs at the time of their initial report, and produced AI-generated shorts inspired by Dragon Ball .

What’s your take on this whole situation?