60% of TikTok videos are AI slop; 21% of YouTube ones

https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/22/60-of-tiktok-videos-are-ai-slop-21-of-youtube-ones

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Fizz@lemmy.nz · 106 pts · 49d (6 replies)

The average person in 20 years is going to be so mentally cooked.

then_three_more@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 49d (2 replies)

In 20 years?

Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 49d (1 reply)

It takes at least one generation for ground truth deprivation to render subjects effectively unmoored from reality

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 49d

It does not.

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 49d (2 replies)

"Alright fam imma cut that ohio tumor out no cap. Lemme just ask chat gpt where I should make the first incision."

Is the last thing you hear before going under anesthesia

eah@programming.dev · 9 pts · 49d

Is the last thing you hear before going under anesthesia

Phantaloons@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 49d

No thanks, I'm all better.

"You are?"

Yeah, I asked ChatGPT, and it said I'm free to leave, and put down the saw.

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 49d (5 replies)
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 22 pts · 49d (2 replies)

Well so are my friends in their mid 20s to early 30s.

Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 49d

The amount of people I see who are the "iPad kids" they constantly scream about is incredibly high

Keep an eye on your screen time folks.

Get out there and touch grass, the world is waiting!

Aneb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d

And 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s. Age doesn't make you immune to ai slop scrolling

heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 49d

Also, being glued to it too. Limit their time for best results.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 49d

no thank you. I will turn them into doves instead

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 50d (6 replies)

Been seeing these weird AI hairstyling videos that are such obvious bullshit and I just wonder "Why? WHYYYYYYY?"

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 50d (4 replies)

Idk, I think Weird Al would be alright at styling hair. He's got them curls.

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 49d (2 replies)

I saw the photo first before I read the parent comment and was mightily confused at why there were Weird Al hairstyling videos. The priming effect at work.

Also, he should title his next album Weird AI

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 49d (1 reply)

and it should be EDM except an accordion choir. So, uh, AADM?

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 49d

FirmDistribution@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 49d

how dare they call Weird Al slop?

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 49d

Ad revenue. If ads disappeared from the internet, so would most of big tech. The future i dream of.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 49d (4 replies)

Yup. This is, in part, why I leave some of my mistakes in my videos. That's the easiest way to prove to people that my content isn't AI without arguing about it.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 49d (3 replies)

me

nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 49d (2 replies)

You identify as a mistake in their videos?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 49d (1 reply)

Shit I fucked up the comment

starik@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 49d

It’s ok, don’t worry about it

Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 33 pts · 49d

This just in, more trash found at the garbage dump.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 49d

Tiktok is all slop. AI is irrelevant.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 49d (4 replies)

The ones that annoy me are “this is the 2027 Canyonero!” and it’s obviously an AI generated car. At this point I have a couple channels I can rely on and block or ignore the rest.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 49d (2 replies)

There is a car rental company that has been pushing legitimately awful AI ads on YouTube. Congrats, I probably wasn’t going to rent a car from you. But now I will specifically avoid your company if I ever need to rent a car.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 49d

Name and shame. Is it a national brand or is it a local exotic type one?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 49d

i have ublock origin on, so i never see any ads.

xthexder@l.sw0.com · 2 pts · 49d

THE NEW 2027 DODGE RAM 1500!!

shows picture of AI generated Toyota Tacoma with the wrong badges

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 49d (1 reply)

That's good, I hope it gets to saturation so people learn how to play stop the AI bullshit.

Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 29 pts · 49d

Sadly that's unlikely. People spending time on TikTok are already so deeply addicted to it that they don't even care whatever that trash is made by humans or machines.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 49d (2 replies)

Wow.

It's that low?

Genuinely surprised by that.

Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 49d (1 reply)

It's probably because the ai slop gets disproportionately promoted to the top, and once you accidentally watch one, that's it, the algorithm decides that's what you like now

hansolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 48d

I only use YT through invidious front ends, so I only see the promoted ones, but whew... Every topic has some and they bubble to the top a lot.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 49d

I used to get a lot of the same AI panic-buy these items now for the coming economic collapse vids. 47 different channels saying "when the shelves are empty these are the 9 items nobody thinks to get" and it's the same AI images of some dipshit in fatigues

lemmelemmy@feddit.org · 9 pts · 49d (1 reply)

Why do these people having such a hard time coming up with articles? YouTube ones? Like as in 20% of 60% TikTok slop is YouTube slop? Does 20% of 40% YouTube slop?

Ps. I know what they mean. They should have just said “while, YouTube is 20%” instead YouTube ones. punctuations. Makes a huge difference.

Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d

60% of tiktok. Videos are slop. AI is YouTube, 21% is slop. One's AI is slop tube.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 49d

This seems to imply that before genai TikTok had quality videos and not handcrafted slop?

hark@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 49d (1 reply)

The internet is experiencing a sloppy death.

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 48d

That's a slippery slop argument /j

agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 49d

Ones?

nightlily@leminal.space · 7 pts · 49d (1 reply)

Is that of newly uploaded content or overall? Because the latter is terrifying considering YouTube is 20+ years of content.

ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 49d
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Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 49d

On Youtube, there are a multitude of new "hosts" like C.S. Lewis (a dead author), sitting at a desk and spewing almost legible gibberish (in an AI voice resembling their own) vaguely referring to their favorite topic. Also psychologists, historians, and more. I've started to look more and more for videos over three years old if I want a decent history program.

Some are hours long. More and more, every day.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 49d (1 reply)

Fuck AI. I'm buying all my shit from the meek from now on.

davepleasebehave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 49d

for the meek shall inherit the reference bonuses

Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 49d (5 replies)

What are they classifying as ai slop? Cause in YouTube there is a lot of low effort content that aren't slop, and there is also low effort content narrated by ai that I'd consider slop, and then there is actual ai slop

Jomega@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 49d (1 reply)

Everything produced using any amount of generative AI is slop, without exception. Hope this clears up the confusion.

Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 49d

Of those 500 videos, 294 were classified as AI slop, a term Kapwing defines as videos with obvious AI-generated visuals or low-quality compilations using clearly AI-generated scripts and voiceovers. The 59 per cent rate is roughly three times the proportion found on YouTube in the same study, making TikTok’s default experience dramatically worse for anyone opening the app for the first time.

I looked up the article the og source referenced, which does say what they defined as ai slop.

The original article isn't helpful because statistics don't mean anything if they don't also define what they're measuring, and they cut the definition short.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 49d (1 reply)

most of the shorts are slop.

Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 49d

Ehh there's a lot of low effort content on youtube, but I don't really see that much slop. Most of the low effort ones are just clips usually taken from twitch with minimal editing

tostane@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 49d

i posted a lot but if i do not think its good i take it down after a few days

postman@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 49d (2 replies)

I'm using various front ends for YouTube on different devices. Are there any that filter out AI like they do ads?

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 48d (1 reply)

Oooh I would love it if that was like a SponsorBlock category or something.

smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 48d

Slopblock

.. at least that's what it should be called if it exists

EDIT: It does exist !

https://slopblock.cc/

replicat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d

This checks out from my experience

c64z86@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d
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ambercedar17387@lemmy.1095.me · -3 pts · 49d (4 replies)
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bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 49d (3 replies)

Nobody wants shitty AI slop. Sorry but line gonna go down.

midimalist@lemdro.id · 1 pts · 49d (2 replies)

Found another one https://lemmy.today/post/55370697

Are they OP's own AI bots?

bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 49d (1 reply)

https://lemmy.world/u/mellowotter44225@lemmy.1095.me

Another one here. I don't think it's OP doing it.

midimalist@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 49d

Ah, I stand corrected. Hopefully admins will do something about it asap