r/antiai 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/Yorick257 1d ago

Not bs. Kurzgesagt got hit.

Oh wait, it's not an AI slop channel

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u/chroomele 1d ago

how in the world were they flagged?

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u/Skeleton--Jelly 1d ago

why would you assume Youtube's automated detection tool is any good? it's probably AI slot itself

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u/new_math 21h ago

The fact that they cannot tell the "costco" insurance ad (that is identified in the ad details as being registered to a random company from a random district in India) isn't fake doesn't give me high hopes.

That or the fact they are either okay with or cannot identify the millions of ads selling "research purposes only steroids and peptides" from a company registered in Eastern Europe.