AI YouTube Is a Dumpster Fire

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Articles:
BroadbandTVNews, YouTube increases hold on the big screen: https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/...
Engadget, YouTube adds automatic AI upscaling for low-res videos: https://www.engadget.com/entertainmen...
Futurism, People Are Spinning Up Low-Effort Content Farms Using AI: https://futurism.com/content-farms-ai
SocialMediaToday, YouTube Tests AI-Powered Comment Reply Suggestions: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news...
TechCrunch, YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/you...
TheWrap, Why YouTube’s New AI Tools Are a Game Changer for Creators: https://www.thewrap.com/how-youtube-a...
TheWrap, YouTube Launches First Wave of AI Likeness Detection Tools for Creators | Video
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-ai-li...
Wired, AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble...

Source for 20bn YouTube videos claim: https://blog.youtube/press/

Books:
Byung-Chul Han, Hyperculture, Polity Press, 2022. Trans. Daniel Steuer.

Videos:
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/...
   • YouTube is obsessed with AI  
   • MadeOn YouTube 2025 | Creator Roundup  
   • This Week at YouTube: Public to Member-Onl...  
   • New YouTube Features — Explained!  
   • Made on YouTube 2025 Highlights  

Description topline is from Stanislaw Lem, The Cyberiad, Penguin, 2014. Trans. Michael Kandel. P.46