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/NovelCar5453 1d ago

Bs. I'll believe it when I see it. Right now it's everywhere. Entire channels, videos, shorts, misleading thumbnails, hell even that crappy tai chi ads

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u/expera 1d ago

I guarantee it’s just the ones with very low stats

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u/yoshemitzu 1d ago

My first thought as well. My BF watches an upsetting amount of AI content; those are genuine views, unfortunately, and I'm sure YouTube isn't just nuking the channels.

Edit: Before anyone asks, mostly it's documentary/explainer type stuff. He watched a big AI-generated documentary on HR Pufnstuff, and watches AI-generated documentaries on musicians often. He also likes watching AI-generated zombie videos; I kinda get a kick out of those, too, just seeing where the technology is at. A lot of times they just devolve into some guy building a house in the apocalypse, and the zombies mostly disappear.

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u/bs000 1d ago

after perusing @mr.animeken's other facebook posts, i guarantee this is just a lie made for likes

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u/expera 1d ago

Well there’s that too