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AI Slop Is Taking Over YouTube (www.kapwing.com)
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A new study found that more than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are low-quality AI content. 278 channels alone have racked up 63 billion views and generate roughly $117 million per year.

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[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Very ironic, this being posted on kapwing

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Relatedly, this month I ran into two Lemmy YT posts that were deepfakes of political analysts whom I’m familiar with, and it still took me several minutes before I realized something wasn’t right.

We’re boned.