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[ PRIVACY Forum ] AI Slop on YouTube
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Fri Apr 24 14:32:38 2026
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:23:10 -0700
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AI Slop on YouTube
The amount of AI Slop on YouTube is growing by leaps and bounds.
Particularly awful are the fake stories, AI purporting to show images
and/or voices of actual persons still living (or now deceased), and
similarly putrid, rotting, garbage AI. When you look at the comments on
most of these, you will typically see a mix of viewers taken in by the
AI crap, and others viewers pointing out the AI Slop in suitable
terms. My policy is to downvote every AI video on YT that I stumble
across, for the little good it does. Many of these videos have
relatively few views, some however have a considerable number. But
since they can be churned out so quickly, their creators attempt to
make up in volume what they can't get in individual video views.
Google doesn't care either way. A click is a click. My suspicion is that
Google (as a firm) would be happy if there were NO human creators and
they could create ALL YT videos via AI Slop by themselves. Think of it,
no creator to pay their usual pittance, keep 100% of the ad revenue!
The most important internal training film at Google these days
must be:
"The Life of an AI Slop Video"
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