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More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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Why would you ever watch shorts in the first place? First thing I did when they appeared was make a ublock filter to hide them.
Considering a lot of the full YouTube videos are full of padding, taking over ten minutes to get to the point, I can understand why the shorts would have appeal.
Problem is one way or another people are being incentivized to target a specific runtime regardless of whether they have the material to fit.
I just skip those. There's almost always a better one that was easy to find.
"Stay tuned for part 2"
100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts