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Posted on 12/28/2025 3:41:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Kapwing reports up to 33% of YouTube feeds are low-quality AI content. Spain and South Korea top in subscribers and views, sparking global concern.
Once a fringe term, "AI slop" has become part of the global vocabulary. In 2025, both The Economist and Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary highlighted the phrase as shorthand for the surge of low-quality, auto-generated content flooding the internet — from shallow articles and spammy videos to algorithmic filler produced at scale. That growing frustration has data to back it up.
A new report by Kapwing suggests that between 21% and 33% of YouTube feeds, as of October 2025, may consist of AI slop or closely related "brainrot" videos, underlining how rapidly this form of content has spread across platforms worldwide.
While AI-generated video has found legitimate applications in filmmaking, advertising and education, with film schools and major brands experimenting with the technology, the report suggests that a parallel ecosystem has emerged. In this space, creators use prompt-based tools to mass-produce content at scale, flooding platforms with repetitive, low-quality visuals that prioritise engagement over originality.
Kapwing defines AI slop as careless, low-quality content generated through automated applications and distributed to attract views or influence opinion. Brainrot, a closely related category, refers to compulsive, nonsensical videos that corrode attention and comprehension through endless repetition and spectacle.
To measure how widespread this phenomenon has become, Kapwing examined the top 100 trending YouTube channels in every country, identifying which among them primarily produced AI-generated slop.
The researchers then analysed view counts, subscriber numbers and estimated revenue using data from Social Blade. To simulate the experience of a new user, they also created a fresh YouTube account and tracked the first 500 Shorts that appeared in the feed.
The findings reveal striking geographical patterns.
Spain emerged as the country with the largest combined subscriber base for trending AI...
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It’s one thing to hear something false. It’s quite another to actually see it.
AI has given disreputable content creators the ability to take mischief to the next level.
We need laws that require anything produced with AI must be identified as such, especially representations of actual people. There are numerous videos on youtube of the British princes, adult and child, dancing wildly in all sorts of settings. Not the worst use that could be made of AI, but people shouldn’t be represented as doing things they didn’t do, or having abilities they do not have, unless such is disclosed.
You should know by now. I keep track on THEM.
Vigilance my friend. Always vigilance.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/
There’s still nothing new under the Sun.
People have always had to exercise discrimination over propaganda in every area of life.
I’m assuming it’s because it has to find “brute force” solutions — scour the web to find the answer to a question.
Water marks should be mandatory on all of this fake garbage, with costly penalties for failure to mark your product.
AI drops acid.
Okay
That’s the First answer I’ve received...
Thanks.
> We need laws that require anything produced with AI must be identified as such, especially representations of actual people. <
You betcha. There’s an internet site that allows you to pick a famous politician (Obama, Biden, Trump, etc). Then you type what you want the politician to say.
Now wait a minute. Up comes a video of the politician at a podium, saying exactly what you typed. Even the lip movements match.
(I’m not including the site’s location here because my anti-virus program flagged it as suspicious.)
What little WWII stuff I’ve watched has been pretty crappy. Anything made less than 6 months ago was quickly on my Do Not Watch list, unless from a known-quality content provider.
I never noticed there is a Big Red Badger here as well as Red Badger. Do you 2 know each other? Same person?
Also stupid easy to fabricate evidence against someone....
> Also stupid easy to fabricate evidence against someone.... <
Yes. Please see my post #29.
I don’t think they needed AI to push the Steele dossier and the ‘golden shower’ nonsense.
Where does this end? Who do we trust? The wild Wild West is upon us again.
>> I will say the quality is very scary
Scary good quality? Or scary bad?
Or nothing.
>> This took 67 gallons of water but it’s totally worth it.
LOL! Totally.
“I noticed that these men were wearing Battle of the Bulge ribbons”
ref https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059557/?ref_=tt_mlt_i_1
I used to watch those little quick vids but don’t bother now that so many are fake whether AI or not.
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