By Christianna Silva
Publication Date: 2025-12-29 18:11:00
If it feels like there’s a lot of AI wrong on YouTube, that’s because there is much by KI-Slop on YouTube.
New research from video editing company Kapwing, reported by the Guardian, found that more than one in five videos the YouTube Shorts algorithm shows to new users is low-quality, AI-generated content.
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One of the most interesting parts of the Kapwing study is that of the first 500 YouTube Shorts videos in a brand new, untouched YouTube Shorts algorithm, 104 were AI-generated and 165 were Brainrot – a whopping 21 percent and, respectfully, 33 percent.
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Of course, the love of AI slop varies depending on the country. Kapwing found that AI Slop channels in Spain have a total of 20.22 million subscribers, more…
