By Will McCurdy
Publication Date: 2025-12-28 18:39:00
As tools like OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo make AI video creation more accessible than ever before, “AI slop” is also making its way into YouTube, according to a report from video editing firm Kapwing.
The company created a new YouTube account and tracked the number of AI-generated videos it saw on YouTube Shorts. Of the 500 videos scrolled through, 104 (or 21%) were AI-generated, and 165 (33%) of those 500 videos were what Kapwing considers brain rot, or “nonsensical, low-quality video content that corrodes the viewer’s mental or intellectual state while watching.”
Kapwing also identified the top 100 trending YouTube channels in specific countries and selected the slop channels.
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