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Yes, it is. Full stop
Any YouTube channel that uses it for voice or content gets a ‘do not recommend channel’ immediately from me
My experience is that it’s never just one thing, either. If they’re using it for voice or imagery they’re probably using it for scripts, too. So the end result is slop on top of slop on top of slop, even if I would have been able to ignore a single element of it.
YouTube is drowning in it, and Google/YT leadership either doesn’t care or doesn’t seem to realize it. I started using Grayjay recently, subscribed to just creators I like. And for the first time in a long while, my feed isn’t two-thirds AI slop. It’s made YouTube tolerable again.
Could be a money maker for them. Let the AI slop through, make some money off it for a bit, ban the creator for a violation then delete the video. Far more space efficient than having to deal with real channels that have hundreds of GBs of legacy videos you need to keep around forever and fans who actually care about said creator and legacy. I’m fully expecting the jump where they start producing the slop themselves instead of having to share a percentage with the creators.
It’s not morally good of course. That slop is cancer.
Yup it is, and in pure moronic big tech, it’s only a short term money maker. Eroding trust in the platform bit by bit, more and more people are growing annoyed by it, and all the social media doing it.
There are some channels uploading several AI generated videos per hour 24/7. I’m surprised they don’t get banned.
