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Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

YouTube gets tough on "AI slop" ruining the party for million-dollar “brain rot” video channels

A pink brain drips as if melting onto a blue floor. .

Video streaming giant YouTube has begun to crack down on channels potentially earning millions of dollars publishing “AI slop” content created solely using artificial intelligence (AI).

In a recent move, the platform either completely removed or wiped content from 16 leading AI-driven channels which, collectively, had amassed over 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion views.

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