About half the videos recommended to me on YouTube are AI Slop

OK sometimes it is only a quarter to a third, but it seems too, that the AI Channel Blocker extension, is identifying a few thousand new ones daily. It is really not a good situation. Quite a few do declare that their content is generated largely by AI, and some much of that is entertainment or documentary type content. But what is more alarming to me is just today and yesterday something seemed off about a cooking channel, run by a charming Italian grandmother. As she was stirring the fried egg, the yolk disappeared, and then reappeared. So I asked Gemini to check the channel, and yes the response was, that it was clearly an AI generated channel (video and narration). But nowhere in the description did it declare that fact. Today I see another cooking channel but an American grandmother, with 100,000’s of views and it just seemed so similar. And yes, Gemini says it was likely using the same templates as the other channel, with the theme being varied. Lots of comments there…

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