There's at least one new YouTube channel now that's nothing but AI videos summarizing ripped-off news articles [View all]
The channel was created less than 2 months ago - October 14, with the oldest video uploaded October 23 - and already has 2.4K videos. Summaries of articles on unlimited topics - business, computer games, film, sports, medicine, space, politics, etc. They're apparently grabbing articles as they're published and using AI to generate voice narration of a summary of the article plus "video" consisting of changing screenshots of the illo taken from the article, with multiple screenshots sometimes shown at once, sometimes edited differently, etc.
Another DUer posted an obvious AI video from it, so I took a closer look at it.
These are not audio versions of the articles, like the ones some websites provide, though they might be hoping to look official. They're summaries, and AI summaries make lots of mistakes.
The YouTube channel is - and I'm breaking this up to avoid a clickable link -
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They've posted roughly 2400 videos in 47 days - about 51 videos per day.
And since these are AI summaries likely to be filled with errors, this is just more AI slop contributing to the enshittification of the internet.
When you run across video from a YouTube channel you aren't familiar with, you should always check when the channel was created - and when the first video was uploaded. If a lot of videos have been uploaded in a short time, it's very likely to be AI slop.
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