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Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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I am convinced Youtube and many other platforms are dying right now because instead of protecting their assets, they double down on AI slop that nobody cares about. Of course traffic will keep increasing first but that's mostly from bot accounts spamming garbage and not actual users consuming content and ads. Server cost will explode while ad revenue will shrink. The corporations behind it have vast resources and will take down the Internet with them but their end is slowly approaching.
It's all about those next quarter results
youtube was in trouble the moment they announced election denial has free reign on the platform, this allow so many right wing bots, propaganda to test the waters, and then increase the current trend of right wings stuff, like anti-trans, anti-woke, pro trump, toxic masculinity.