AI Video Taking over YouTube

#1

Post by toit4wing » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:11 PM UTC

I was just casually browsing youtube yesterday and noticed a very interesting video about some robot rabbits being used to capture everglade pythons. Started watching - the narrative was very engaging - done by someone in first person who looked like an experienced wildlife researcher and the story narrated through appropriately placed clips of huge pythons and robot bunnies.

Watched for around 2 mins of the 10 min long clip - and then it suddenly hit me like a rock - the entire video was AI. The narrator, the voice over, the python clips - all of it was generated by AI. And I pride myself on someone who can spot AI from a mile away, but this was shockingly good.

I hit the comments and there it was. Not a single comment reporting this as AI. Showed it to a friend and he couldn't believe it either.

And then today. It happenned again. Entirely different topic - Goldman Sachs abandoning New York because of Mamdani. Deep, engaging, first person narration. But everything was AI, and no one seems to notice in the comments.

What do you guys think ?

Videos: https://youtu.be/B9JQ-7nzIUU, https://youtu.be/uKlmcfsDuqc

Re: AI Video Taking over YouTube

#2

Post by al_borland » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

The number of AI videos getting recommended to me pushed me to disable my YouTube watch history. This has the side effect of turning off home page recommendations entirely. Now I just watch videos from people I’m subscribed. If they start releasing AI videos, I unsubscribe.

Re: AI Video Taking over YouTube

#3

Post by sethops1 » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

The video is literally marked with "Made with AI" per YouTube's policy.

I hate that this kind of content is so successful, and I think YT could do a lot to lower the algorithmic priority of AI content, but at the end of the day engagement is engagement, and those videos are hugely successful.

People love slop.

Re: AI Video Taking over YouTube

#4

Post by spottedmarley » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

I think you are being very dismissive of all the fine, hard work that poor AI had to do to create that supersized helping of slop for you to enjoy. Maybe we need an AI-appreciation week you know, give the little bastards some love.

Re: AI Video Taking over YouTube

#5

Post by toit4wing » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC

sethops1 wrote: post #3

The video is literally marked with "Made with AI" per YouTube's policy. I hate that this kind of content is so successful, and I think YT could do a lot to lower the algorithmic priority of AI content, but at the end of the day engagement is engagement, and those videos are hugely successful. People love slop.

So only the first video is marked: "Made with AI Sounds or visuals were altered or fully generated".

I have seen this label before, I thought it meant that 'some' visuals were altered or generated. But it was shocking to me that the entire video was made by AI. The video of the researcher, his voice, all the visuals - all the snakes, the stitching together - everything is AI end to end. This is not "Made with AI", this is "Made without a human".

And most such videos - the first few comments would clearly mark it as "ai slop". But these two videos there was no such comment. People seem to be engaging as if this video was completely human - or atleast it seems to me.

Could be just my perception and maybe I am just catching upto how pervasive this all is.