More than 20% of YouTube videos shown to new users is ‘AI slop’

Research of the YouTube algorithm indicates over 20% of videos shown to new users are of low quality AI-generated content.

More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” — low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found.

The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels — the top 100 in every country — and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop.