“Good news for individual creators. But a HUGE red flag to larger creator studios, podcast networks, kids media companies, localization operations and anyone that runs multiple channels from a single production stack. All the things that media companies do to publish at scale, including shared templates, synced upload schedules and a common infrastructure also make them look like a coordinated slop factory.”
Given the huge amount of AI slop I still get in my Youtube feed, I don’t think YT is going far enough, quick enough.
An observation? Some people seem fine with AI content. I’ve come across countless videos that are obviously (to me) ChatGPT scripts voiced by AI. Reading their comments, many people don’t seem to be able to tell, or don’t care.
Funny how google wants to sell slop but isn’t so happy when they are on the other end.
It’s all about power/control and the incentives of each platform. There’s incentive to serve you slop when searching. In a traditional web search, when you click on a link, you leave Google’s site and its accompanying ads. An AI slop summary keeps you on the page. But on YouTube, everything is and remains entirely in Google’s ecosystem. They get the same ad revenue from you watching a human-made video as a slop one. In fact, you’ll probably be more likely to leave the platform if you get exposed to a lot of AI slop content. That’s probably exactly what is driving this. They probably have internal numbers showing that slop decreases engagement. With search, this decreased engagement is cancelled out by the value of keeping people on the site. But with YouTube, people are staying on the site regardless.
I think they just want to get rid of ai later so they can introduce a new tier and they can charge you to use their ai models. Only google ai will be allowed on their platform.