YouTube Wants Your Help Identifying AI Slop on Its Platform
If you've watched videos on the internet any time over the past year or two, you've encountered AI-generated content ( even if you didn't realize it ). While some of it is convincing, a lot of it is obvious. Like, I'm guessing no one thought those dramatic narrative videos of people made of fruit were painstakingly animated by hand. This type of artificially generated content has been lovingly (or not so lovingly) labeled "AI slop," which sums it up quite well: It's meaningless drivel, made with little effort or investment by some AI generator, that's raking up real money by going viral on social media. While all platforms that showcase short-form videos are inevitably already filled with AI slop, YouTube has been hit particularly hard. YouTube Shorts can be borderline unwatchable, depending on your algorithm. (Try watching in an incognito window to see what the platform serves up to a blank slate; it's wild out there.) What's worse, YouTub...