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The YouTube Vibecession

By the numbers, everything is going great for creators. So why are so many of them scared it’s all about to fall apart?
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If you’ve ever opened YouTube and seen a talking AI SpongeBob, a looping slime video, or something that feels engineered to melt your brain just enough to keep you scrolling, congrats. According to a ...
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A Kapwing study reveals that over 20 percent of videos recommended to new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated content, raising concerns about the dominance of "AI slop" and its impact on the ...
A new study by Kapwing has found that 20% of YouTube videos are all AI slop — and it looks like children are the most ...
More than 20 per cent of the videos that the YouTube algorithm shows to new users are ‘AI-slops’, referring to low-quality AI-generated content, a new study has found ...
Searches for a "Umair viral video Pakistan 7:11 minutes" are surging, mirroring past viral video scams. Despite widespread ...
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A recent study by Kapwing reveals that over 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated content, termed as 'AI slop'.
Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – ...