I've probably been underestimating how much AI slop is inundating YouTube.

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I was searching YouTube for the song title "Saint Rita" - a new song I haven't yet heard by a British band I like, a song they debuted at a recent festival - and I'd had no luck finding it with the band name, so I decided just to search for that title, in videos uploaded in the last month. I figured there couldn't be too many videos to scroll through with that limited a search.

Wrong. I got quite a few videos because the past month included her saints day - those were videos from various churches around the world.

But I got much more AI slop uploaded to YouTube in the last month. At least dozens of AI slop videos, and possibly hundreds, about that saint, all created and uploaded in just a few weeks. After all, using AI tools requires very little work, or even any real interest in a subject.

It's becoming more and more obvious that we could soon have more AI slop on YouTube than anything else. More AI slop about ANY subject, including an Italian nun who lived six centuries ago. Videos done by people (or content farms) with no expertise on that subject. Just more AI garbage, patched together with mindless AI tools in the hope it might make the AI user a bit of money. A tsunami of slop that could bury everything else - every video done with real care by people who knew what they were doing.

A nightmare that couldn't happen without this harmful tech.

Sometimes I wish the AI bros could be sentenced to watch nothing but AI slop for the rest of their lives.