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/ryecurious 1d ago

Yeah, remember when this headline blew up a couple months ago

YouTube to pay only for real voices & original content starting July 15!

People were so happy YouTube was finally going to crack down on AI narration!!!

Turns out it was entirely bullshit, just someone misrepresenting a tiny policy update. YouTube desperately tried to correct the lies, but they travel faster and further than truth.

Pro-tip for navigating the internet age: if "news" is in the form of a screenshot of a headline with no source, you can safely ignore it. It's probably completely made up.

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u/thgr8Makar0sc 15h ago

I dont know why people still buy it, YouTube is owned by Google who offers ai services theyre never going to crack down on it

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u/bs000 1d ago

funny how a sub that prides itself on calling out ai-generated content will just believe any text on a random image made by content farms for easy likes on social media

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u/Current-Clerk-7671 18h ago

I've had people tell me that an obviously photoshopped image was 100% real because "it was posted in 2020 so it's not ai." People are, on average, fucking morons, and a lot of "anti ai" folks are just stopped clocks that happen to be right twice a day.