Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
by bassrattle on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:52AM
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Yes. The elderly people in my family are falling into watching AI-generated videos which a human never touched before getting views. Grandpa is watching AI-generated stories of puppies saving lives (I had to break it to him, none of these are real) -- just search "puppy saves baby" to see an endless stream of slop. Mom is watching videos from a Galactic Light Federation which she says raise her vibration, and she doesn't believe these are AI. It's tragic, such a waste.
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Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
by TheCleric on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:55AM
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The even worse ones are "POLITICAL FIGURE owns/destroys/etc. JUDGE/POLITICAL PARTY/OTHER POLITICAL FIGURE"
My thinking is that YouTube/Google/Alphabet are capable of detecting this crap but chose not to use that signal in the Youtube recommender algos.
Just like Amazon could detect fraudulent sellers but choose not to because they make money off of those sales just like the legit ones, and customers stick around despite of the fraud.
Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop
by georgemcbay on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:25PM
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Now imagine your Grandpa was the President of the United States and he was tweeting out links to these AI slop videos for everyone to see.
And also the AI slop video featured both himself and his daughter-in-law, so you'd think he would have a pretty good idea the video was AI slop.
And the subject of the AI slop video was announcing magical beds that heal every problem you might have.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2025/09/29/what-are-medb...
The United States is so very fucked.