More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds

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4. That eventually makes them go away on your personal YouTube home page...

... which leads me to believe that YouTube knows it is pushing AI slop and could reduce the amount they promote if they chose to do so.

Instead they are chasing the short term profit and ignoring the long term damage it will do to their own credibility and society in general.

It's also possible we are on the path to Idiocracy where advertisers are actively seeking out the most gullible and easily fleeced internet audience they can find -- those people who will buy any sort of snake oil.