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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.

Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.

The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.

The findings are a snapshot of a rapidly expanding industry that is saturating big social media platforms – from X to Meta to YouTube – and defining a new era of content: decontextualised, addictive and international.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i havent found you tube interesting in years. I also use 3rd party viewers if I have to watch something there so there is no algorithym to suggest anything.

Works better that way.

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

probably why you haven't found anything interesting in years

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

Could be. But the article here tells me it would all have been garbage recommended to me anyways.

[–] Cabbage_Pout61@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most people that I follow post videos there, can't help but use it unfortunately.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can use a third party tool to keep track of what you want to see, more or less anonymously subscribing.

[–] PoastRotato@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Do you have any recommendations?

[–] xartle@reddthat.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Invidious had been good to me

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

Freetune works for me, on a roku I use playlet, on android there are a few others.

There was a good recommendation on here the other day, but I didn't write it down.

You also can create playlists in various media players like VLC.

I would highly encourage whoever you really like to head over to nebula. I know paying seems not great but they do get a portion of that money and there are no ads.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I have a pretty good time with New Pipe but I've heard others haven't had the good experience I have.