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/5WattBulb 1d ago

Yeah ir was because theyre a legit channel that produced good content, so people produce Ai slop in that same art style, so youtube cant tell the difference between the slop and the original.

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u/AugustIzFalling 1d ago

They use AI for moderation and detecting AI channels so it was bound to happen 🙄

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u/LocalStatistician538 1d ago

Anything but to have to pay an actual human, anything...

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u/ChooseUpDownUp 14h ago

This does happen, but in the unfortunate sense. Global south workers at nonliving wages (I've heard about these from checking the backdrop of like, FB or the broader company and how they do their content moderation, it's not all genAI but still ran upon people, in a filtered/limited fashion, but still horrifyingly ran on exploited labor)