AI Slop Could Bankrupt YouTube

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YouTube is enthusiastically embracing AI slop despite the fact that it may eventually destroy their business. You can support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Siliconversations Special thanks to my Patreon supporters: Sentient Hat Tier: Maple the Finn Nathanaël Havez MyDailyPintOfGremlinMilk Matias Badino Tom your personal annoying Bug Kelly P Old_leginary (hun vaze) C_Bookie Alexandre Le Mercier Big Sentient Hat Tier: darkprincedarkstar Emmanuel Goldstein Red Ransil Aaron Smith Sirhaian Julian Schulz Dawid Kubicki Harrier 🦊 Snababo Jacob Mejer botfly Borderlands2 screaming gun Call Your Reps About AI Safety Patrick Kennedy Drew Spartz Sarunas Budreckis Linkie Pup raided Drarko Bread Shark Sayhan Yalvaçer Jeffrey qqlululu MrConchman Sequoia michael fares David Siliconversations is financially supported by the Future of Life Institute. Go to https://futureoflife.org/ to learn more. All my opinions are my own. This video was: Written, directed and narrated by Siliconversations Illustrated and edited by Star Sources: Claim: Monetised YouTubers receive 55% of the ad revenue generated by their longform videos on YouTube - https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902#zippy=%2Cwhats-my-revenue-share Claim: YouTube has 2 billion+ logged in monthly users - https://abc.xyz/investor/events/event-details/2024/2023-q4-earnings-call/ “On average, there are over 20 million videos uploaded daily to YouTube.” - https://blog.youtube/press/ BBC: OpenAI closes Sora video-making app and cancels $1bn Disney deal https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo CNBC: Oreo-maker Mondelez to use new generative AI tool to slash marketing costs - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/24/oreo-maker-mondelez-to-use-new-generative-ai-tool-to-slash-marketing-costs.html NPR: In a major antitrust ruling, a judge lets Google keep Chrome but levies other penalties - https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5478625/google-chrome-doj-antitrust-ruling “Question: Does Nebula have an AI policy? Answer: Nebula will not use any generative AI tools known to be trained on unethically sourced data in the creation of our original content or in the production of our software platform. While we cannot dictate what our creators do, use of such tools will be a factor in how we select creators in the future.” https://nebula.tv/faq YouTube: A.I. and Creators - The Future of Tech and Creativity: https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/0fcb363b741b27fb1e8afabd2ec8ae2277452bc4612086c2e7a3616c5df414edd38a5d18b11ea25402454cd649a6cde98e42cd633e28fd29b592a3b1ba3c2c12 AI Use Disclosure: YouTube generated the subtitles, which I partially formatted using Claude. I also used Claude to find some of the above sources again after I forgot to bookmark them.