What does AI slop have to do with TV executives not making good shows?
Am I missing something? How is this not a huge leap?
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the entire headline is rage bait.
There's no direct link, but it's all related in the sense that everything is competition for viewers eyes and attention. People watch Youtube a lot compared to streaming networks, and Youtube is increasingly comprised of more and more AI slop.
I guess that makes sense, thanks. My brain will not view YouTube as “real” because it’s just stupid cat videos and nazi apologists and corporate enshittification
YouTube recommends based on your search history so I don't know what to say.
I watch Adam Savage of Mythbusters, Physicist Angela Collier, ProZD, Level1Techs, etc and get similar suggestions.
Go on there without a watch history and it takes all of one or two videos before something shitty is recommended.
Just because you do not see a problem does not magically make it absent.
Same could be said of almost all platforms now, even the fediverse. You need to shape it how you want it. You can browse YT by your subscriptions only. I don't see cat videos or Nazi propaganda.
Adam Savage? Can you please tell me why he’s out here shilling for Saudi Arabia on his insta? wtf is that about?
Edit oops! Wrong photo was attached to Adam Savage in Saudi. He did go and I don't know what that was about.
I wish I were wrong - I’ve been restricted from the tested sub multiple times. Go look for yourself
Yes! I edited my post while you were replying!
It's also where all my MP3s come from ...
Deemix is a revelation
I just use the same video downloader as for stealing streams, but I'll check that out :-)
OP explained it well. The problem for us is that these companies chase infinite growth and to get that they need to look at what the people who aren't already their customers are doing. If those people are off watching short-form AI slop it can potentially send the wrong messages.
It has been rumoured for years now that Netflix (and others) are intentionally dumbing down their scripts for people with zero attention span who watch things in the background and/or while they're using their phone. Characters will repeatedly explain the plot at regular intervals so that the goldfish don't lose interest and unsubscribe. As of 2025, Netflix has also begun airing new shows with AI generated content in them (in this case it replaced manual VFX work) and wants to explore the use of generative AI further.
You're right that there's no immediate connection and we're not suddenly going to be deluged with AI slop on paid streaming platforms, but it's potentially a bigger problem if we look at the longer term direction society is headed.
I'm so confused by this. Why is it comparing some youtube channels with streaming shows on streaming platforms that aren't youtube? They only mention the minutes watched of TV shows but don't have a comparable graph of youtube content. They don't compare revenue of the youtube channels vs TV shows either.
Was this article written by AI? It's just terrible.
From YouTube’s CEO:
“Just because the content is 75 percent AI generated doesn’t make it any better or worse than a video that’s 5 percent AI generated. What’s important is that it was done by a human being.”
Uhhh, read that again. If human input is what is valuable then clearly the content that is 95% human vs 25% is much more valuable.
Their lies are becoming more contradictory, even in the same paragraph.
Is 100% human even an option? Lol
The problem: AI slop is replacing a tiny percentage human slop but the growth of AI data centers might mean that they can replace a greater percentage of human slop in the future.
Meanwhile, executives at big studios are continuing their campaign of producing boring, unoriginal shows. Their great hope upon hope is that they too will be able to replace their boring, unoriginal shows with boring, unoriginal shows made by AI.
Who knew that canceling 90% of shows immediately after release would drive people away?
To be fair, shows have always been cancelled. Networks used to yank TV shows from airing after 6 episodes if it didn't get enough viewers.
Remember Firefly?
From that headline, one might assume that nothing new coming out is any good these days. That's not true at all, but I will admit that it's harder than ever to find the diamonds in the rough. Out of the hundreds of new shows that came out this year, probably less than ten of them were good imo. That may be one factor leading people to just rewatch old stuff.
It's hard to get motivated to invest time in a show that may not be good, may get cancelled, or might take a turn for the worse after a few episodes or seasons. I recently watched the two seasons of Poker Face. I loved the pilot episode, really enjoyed some episodes, and hated others. And it had been cancelled anyhow. So I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone with those caveats.
When there are hundreds of shows to choose from, and you have experiences like that, it can be paralyzing. The days of breaking bad and game of thrones being a part of a monoculture are over. You can't just wait for people to annoy you into giving a show a chance and then seeing they had a point. You gotta dig through tons of trash to find the good stuff. Most of the shows and movies I enjoy these days aren't anything my friends and family have ever heard of. And yeah, AI is going to make this all worse. Not only by adding more crap to the pile but also likely causing content quality to vary wildly. The golden age of television and the garbage age of television are both true right now.
This is the Youtube thing, where the AI slop output from data centres costing hundreds of billions is being used to generate one hundred million in advertising fees.
It's a good business model, for as long as all the venture capitalists continue to throw all the money they have into the unquenchable fire pit to subsidise it without questioning whether they'll ever see any payback, and advertisers don't wonder whether they're getting any value from placements in the midst of it.