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As AI slop farmers spam YouTube with their horrible content, the social media platform is tweaking its policies to stem the tide.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Is Drowning in AI Slop Channels

By Joe Wilkins

Bloo is swiftly becoming one of the biggest gaming YouTubers in the biz — but unlike his human peers, this vlogger is an AI-powered avatar.
Artificial Intelligence

A Fast-Rising Gaming YouTuber Is an AI Construct, Not a Human

By Noor Al-Sibai

A YouTuber got a strange call from Tesla mid-robotaxi-ride, asking her to leave the vehicle due to incoming weather.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Robotaxi Rider Gets Bizarre Call Saying She Has to Exit Vehicle Immediately

By Victor Tangermann

A beloved wellness coach died unexpectedly in the middle of filming a MrBeast video — and it remains unclear what happened to him.
Developments

Someone Died While Filming MrBeast’s New Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a sign of the times, YouTube creators are labelling their music playlists with "No AI" to signal that their creations are slop free.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Playlists Are Advertising “No AI” as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Inventor Builds Actual Laser Gun That Literally Sets Stuff on Fire When You Pull the Trigger
Robots and Machines

Inventor Builds Actual Laser Gun That Literally Sets Stuff on Fire When You Pull the Trigger

By Victor Tangermann

The YouTube mogul took out an ad campaign on X-formerly-Twitter to wish himself a happy 27th trip around the sun.
Future Society

MrBeast Takes Out Online Ads to Wish Himself Happy Birthday

By Joe Wilkins

MrBeast has recently bragged about the people he currently has trapped in ridiculous scenarios, and the money they represent.
Future Society

MrBeast Brags About the Human Lives He Has Suspended in Bizarre “Simulations”

By Joe Wilkins

Despite owning a multi-million dollar media empire with his buddies, MrBeast says his life is much harder than the average person's.
Future Society

MrBeast Says His Life Is Full of Sorrow Due to All the Boss Things That Occupy His Schedule

By Joe Wilkins

In a bizarre performance art project, a YouTuber profited from a "true crime" channel that was pure AI slop.
Artificial Intelligence

“True Crime” YouTube Channel Busted as Pure, Made-Up AI Slop

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla's vision for its Cybercab robotaxi is a baffling mess of empty promises and questionable design decisions.
Tesla

Here’s Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Makes Absolutely No Sense

By Victor Tangermann

Uber-popular YouTuber Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson is facing allegations surrounding his forthcoming reality game show, "Beast Games."
Future Society

Allegations Keep Piling Up Against MrBeast

By Noor Al-Sibai

Runway's Gen-3 Alpha text-to-video AI generator was trained on pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, 404 Media reports.
Google

Leak Shows That Google-Funded AI Video Generator Runway Was Trained on Stolen YouTube Content, Pirated Films

By Victor Tangermann

A giant dataset of YouTube subtitles has been used to train AI without the permission of the creators whose work was scraped.
Anthropic

YouTubers Furious After Apple and Anthropic Steal Their Data to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

The factors that YouTube will consider to determine if AI content impersonates someone, however, is considerably hazy.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Now Lets You Request the Removal of AI Content That Impersonates You

By Frank Landymore

Some YouTube users who use certain ad blockers are experiencing video errors. As it turns out, those ad blockers themselves may be the issue.
Future Society

YouTube’s Crackdown on Ad Blockers Is Making It Miserable to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré