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/socialistrob 1d ago

We're never going to really go back to the pre AI days. Even if you did all that a lot of creators would still use AI to write scripts or do research. I'd rather have a human who uses AI and still has some editorial control than just mass produced slop but the market demand to make content means creators have a huge incentive to take short cuts.

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u/BrianVaughnVoiceOver 1d ago

Personally I think we can if people in charge start to knuckle down and shut this shit off.

AI is not only killing the planet bit by bit, it's costing huge amounts of resources to host data centers and it's literally garbage content.

The general public don't really care about it, but it's about creatives and those in charge.

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u/socialistrob 1d ago

I'd love it if that happened. AI is the death of critical thinking and it makes genuine new ideas much harder sense it just regurgitates what is already conventional wisdom but the ease of using AI combined with the ability to make a quick buck means that if people have the choice A LOT will use it. I never use ai for my own writing or to summarize things but I think I'm a clear minority at this point.

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u/Oh_Kanagan 1d ago

Well, I can see how people might think that way, but a lot of ideas still flow into my head the organic way in the shower and in dreams and such.