One in five Shorts that YouTube recommends to new users is low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated video, often described as “AI slop.” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used that label himself in his January 2026 annual letter, pledging to build on YouTube’s spam and clickbait-detection systems to combat it.
A Kapwing study of 15,000 trending channels identified 278 channels producing nothing but content classified as AI slop. Those channels had collectively amassed 63 billion views, 221 million subscribers, and an estimated $117 million in annual ad…

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