Babies trapped in space, zombie football stars and chat soap opera: Welcome to Youtube at the time of AI video.
Almost one in 10 of the fastest growth channels with the fastest growth worldwide only show content generated by AI, as breakthroughs in technology stimulate a flow of artificial content.
Analysis of the data keeper of the analysis company Game game shows that among the fastest 100 channels in July of this year, nine presented content purely generated by AI.
The offers include channels that showcase bizarre stories such as a baby crawling in a pre-launched space rocket, a Cristiano Ronaldo and dead-dead melodramas with humanized cats. The generation of AI videos has increased in the middle of the release of powerful tools such as the Grok of Elon Musk from Google and Elon Musk.
The channels have millions of subscribers in total, including 1.6 million for the infant at Spatial Brin and 3.9 million for Super Cat LeagueWho presents cats in the shape of a human business and, among one of the many bizarre scenes, the felines slaughter and dismember an eagle.
Many of these videos are described as “AI Sols”, which refers to low quality and mass content which is surreal, strange or simply grotesque. But some contain a brief rudimentary intrigue – as a sign of increasing sophistication of the content generated by AI.
YouTube tried to stem the flood of the slope by block advertising revenue sharing With channels that publish repetitive and “inauthentic” content – a policy targeting AI content.
“All the contents downloaded from YouTube is subject to our Community guidelines – whatever he is generated, “said a spokesperson for YouTube, who belongs to the mother company of Google.
After being contacted by The Guardian about the channels – which included channels in the fastest list for June – YouTube said that he had withdrawn three from the platform and blocked two others by receiving advertising revenues. He did not specify which channels had been punished.
An expert said that AI video generators announce the next internet “consumption” wave, a term used for the first time by the British Canadian author Cory Doctorow. Invented in 2022, Doctorow used it to describe the drop in the quality of user online experiences, because platforms prioritize the profit compared to the high quality content supply.
“AI Sols floods the Internet of content which is essentially garbage,” said Dr. Akhil Bhardwaj, associate professor at the School of Management at the University of Bath. “This enhitification ruins online communities on Pinterest, in competition for income with artists on Spotify and flooding YouTube of poor quality.”
“One way for social media companies to regulate the soils is to ensure that it cannot be monetized, which thus removes the incentive to generate it.”
Ryan Broderick, the author of the popular newsletter of the day of garbage on internet culture, is scathing on the impact of AI video, writing last week that YouTube became a “depot for the short films of disturbing and soulless”.
Instagram’s video function is also flooded with AI content. On the platform, a video of various celebrity heads Attached to animal bodies obtained 3.7 million views, with the “Rophant” (Dwayne Johnson and an elephant) and “Emilla” (Eminem on a gorilla).
On Tiktok, many videos generated by AI have become viral, including a video of Abraham Lincoln Vlogging his bad trip to the opera and Cats in competition in an Olympic diving event. However, Lincoln and Cat Olympic videos are more in the spirit of the pre-popp of the Internet of play with play.
Instagram and Tiktok said they demanded that all realistic AI content be labeled. Videos suspected of containing AI of these channels were overcome with a Deepfake detection service provider Reality defender.
The channels featuring AI videos for July are:
