YouTube prepares crackdown on mass-produced videos as concern over AI slop grows

Better late than never, I hope they succeed.

I am somewhat concerned about false positives. For example I know of one channel that creates audiobooks of old books. I am about 95% certain he's a real person reading the books, he sometimes stutters, doesn't do the characteristic fumbling of homographs, his output is consistent with a human reader (a chapter a day), and I occasionally hear him turning pages. However he does use AI generated illustrations for each video, so it could be an easy false positive..

(It would be nice if he did LibreVox because he's got a great voice for audiobooks, but some of the books he reads are still in copyright, even though the authors are long dead...)

Unless it’s an advertiser, in which case: Slop away!… until the checks start to bounce.

Good.

People like @roelvandepaar (2 million videos) should have been shut down years ago.

Why limit it to AI slop, there's plenty of real slop as well (having to do with YT Shorts mostly).

Hmm I don't know. I think AI art (images and video) is fun to create and look at. I think they should simply have a separate section for it.

I guess it depends on the definition of "mass produced" though. I like carefully crafted AI art. You might have to go through dozens of iterations to get a concept that you're after and maybe even do some post processing...but yeah I guess we need to search for the definition of "slop."