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Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop by busymom0 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:08PM (#45428166)
My feed is filled with AI slop videos. They are usually AI generated thumbnails, AI generated voice-overs over either AI generated images animating or random clips of videos stolen from actual creators. Last month, I was getting 5-6 videos every refresh containing some fake futuristic AI-generated cars. Nowadays, I am getting the same with AI-generated tech products.

Typically, all these videos have under 1000 views. I am at a point where I might even write a user script to hide every video under 1000 views.

Re:YouTube is now full of crap AI slop by JdeBP on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:21PM (#45429169)
If you want to banjanx the algorithm, instead, watch a few Kyoto Tachibana Senior High School Band videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIouDxRfTb8) or Shimane Prefectural Izumo Commercial High School Band videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLzr3cuFtk).

There appears to be an enormous algorithmic weight to those. Just a few such videos completely swamped my recommendations with Japanese marching bands a couple of years ago. Simply finding those two to copy their URLs into this post has immediately put two further band videos into my recommendations.