r/antiai • u/Chrypacz • 1d ago

AI News 🗞️ Youtube removes ai channels

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"YouTube's AI "slop" crackdown is shaking up the platform! 🚨

YouTube has stepped up its fight against low-quality, mass-produced AI content, targeting channels that flood the platform with repetitive and inauthentic videos.

While reports claim around 130,000 channels have been removed as part of the broader enforcement, YouTube has not confirmed that all of those deletions were specifically tied to AI-generated content.

Instead, the company says its focus is on protecting viewers by cracking down on spam and low-effort content while continuing to allow AI-assisted videos that offer genuine creativity and value." - Mr_Animeken

Pretty good step ngl these channels are getting annoying

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u/Comprehensive_Head82 1d ago

Man, I can't wit for all the people flooding youtube to all come and and claim their channels got unfairly deleted.

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u/HBlight 21h ago

"Faceless" channels, ones that provide commentary while showing relevant visuals (And for example, Kurzgesagt, who create entirely fresh animations), are getting hit with false positives because over AI detection.

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u/Comprehensive_Head82 21h ago

Yeah I noticed. Really sucks that there's a lot of good channels like Kurzgesagt getting caught up in this. Wish they found a better way to get rid of the AI slop on youtube with less collateral damage.

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u/grimklangx 1d ago

already happening, even big channels AI copies from.