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YouTube cracks down on AI slop

Rob Beschizza
Jan 28, 2026
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Typical sloptube content

After talking about cracking down for months, YouTube favoring slop over its human creators has finally come to an end: the video platform is removing and gutting the top slop channels. This comes days after the CEO, Neal Mohan, targeted “low-quality AI content” in a recent blog post about “managing AI slop.”

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