YouTube has been flooded with AI-generated slops and will not change anytime soon. Instead of reducing the total number of slop channels, the platform plans to update its policy to reduce some of the worst criminals who make money from “spam.” At the same time, it's still a complete steam to add the tool to make sure the feed is full of mass-produced Brainrot.
In an update to the support page posted last week, YouTube said it would change its partner program guidelines. The video platform says that YouTubers need to create “original” and “real” content, but now they can “better identify mass-produced, repeating content.” The changes will take place on July 15th. The company did not promote whether the change was AI-related, but considering that more people are realizing that ramping of slop content flowing through the platform every day, you can't overlook the timing.
The AI ”revolution” has resulted in a landslide of garbage content that has plagued most creative platforms. Alphabet-owned YouTube is particularly bad these days, focusing on misleading videos that are often misleading, often misleading, sewerage systems filled with sludge, where multiple channels have become users' YouTube feeds. AI Slops have become extremely prolific and have infected most social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram. Last month, John Oliver on “Last Week” specifically highlighted several YouTube channels that have created obviously fake stories to show White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt in good light. Accounts similar to these channels across social media emit videos generated to these rapid AI and spend quickly from YouTube's partner programs.
Gizmodo contacted YouTube to see if it could clarify what is considered “mass production” and “repeat.” In an email statement, YouTube said this was not a “new policy” but a “minor update” effort to tackle content that has already abused the rules of the platform.
It's not accurate. To be clear, this is a minor update to the long-standing YPP policy to help *better identification* when content is mass-produced or repeated. This type of content has already been eligible for monetization for years and content audiences often consider spam.
– TeamYoutube (@teamyoutube) July 3, 2025
However, new guidelines may not qualify for rapid amounts of content that uses AI-generated narration “without personal commentary or storytelling.” The same goes for “slideshow compilation” with “recycled clips,” “reactions or summary content with little original insight,” or “a very repetitive form, especially in shorts.”
YouTube shorts are the best places for most of these AI slop channels. In June, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan defended a new tool for generating shorts “from scratch.” Mohan proposed that the tool could generate both video and audio for video. This is especially ironic as the tools used in AI models, including Google's VEO 3, are trained with YouTubers' content without explicit permission.
It remains unclear which content falls under this idea of ”very iterative form.” Would a series of fake Harry Potter video blogs want to push a preteen back into his cupboard under the stairs? It's all vague to imagine many of these slop creators slipping through the cracks. Although content moderation is incomplete by its nature, the way glyfters today monetize slops represents the hole in Google's open-hand approach to AI, even if some videos aren't being driven much. By sharing how to upload video assembly line styles generated to AI, more and more accounts offer a wealth of Quick advice.
Even if the Slop channel puts more effort into making each video look like “spam”, the quality certainly remains subpar. Google and YouTube want to push AI as king, but the inevitable outcome will be a bad platform for everyone. As the name suggests, the slop slides downhill, making the creators and viewers swimming in their eyes in the mud.
