I said that AI slops were coming for YouTube content, did you believe me? I don't know, maybe you did, but if you didn't believe it before, you certainly would. YouTube is getting a new tool to generate shorts from “Scrate,” according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, who gave a keynote address at the Cannes Lions International Creativity Festival on Wednesday. Simply put, with the help of Google's recently announced VEO 3 AI generator. That's right, there's an AI Slop one-stop shop incoming calls.
Mohan, like many executives such as Tech, is extremely excited by the possibility that AI could shake up the game. Here's what he said during his keynote speech, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“The community continues to surprise us with the power of collective fandom, and cutting-edge AI technology pushes the limits of human creativity. My biggest bet is that YouTube continues to be at the stage where everything happens.
Certainly, I think that is one possibility. Other possibilities? A new mountainous area of junk content that enriches the general choice of YouTube feed or protects the already tormented boundaries between reality and fiction. I hate being a resident slippery slope guy, but how far do we really take this? According to Mohan, it's pretty whimsical. “The possibilities for AI are endless,” Mohan said in his keynote address. “Many things can change with generations. Entertainment itself has changed more dramatically in history than any other era in the last 20 years. Creators have led this revolution.”
People use veo3 to bring history to life in the form of vlogs 🤣
Via HistoryVisualizedByai on YouTube pic.twitter.com/c5ojcbytbj
– Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) June 15th, 2025
It's a bit ironic to praise the creator-driven content revolution on one hand, introduce a fork tool that helps clean up all the content and flow back into the ai slop of the other content. Ah, yes, Hollywood is. As pointed out by Hollywood Reporter, YouTube has already signed a contract with the Creative Artist Agency (CAA), which gives artists and athletes control over their portraits. But that's just Some An artist who is OK to surrender to the apparent video-generated tsunami. Hundreds of other sources have already expressed concern about the possibility that AI could ruin careers and plunder intellectual property. As a result, they called for regulations regarding the generation AI and its implementation. The simple fact that you are writing these words means that there is no cry for the legal framework actually going anywhere. To be honest, they will never return to YouTube's plans for future AI slop taps.
Here we are, on the real and fake cliffs, looking at the horizon of God, seeing what we know, waiting for the great flood of ai slop to kick us, screaming into the valley of existential ai pain. I'm not saying that YouTube's generated shorts will be that candidly suppressed, squatting future lynchpin, but I don't deny it's nodding in a sloppy direction. I think we might get used to it too. So it's not going to get any worse than Mrbeast, right? right?
