Neural Dispatch: AI bubbles, slop and (lack of) ethics

Cognitive warmup. YouTube wants its users to flag content that is AI generated “slop” (a term that annoys Satya Nadella, particularly). The company says wiping out low-quality generations from YouTube feeds is a priority for 2026.

I’d simply summarise it as this—YouTube asking users to flag AI slop is a very smart way to have 2.7 billion active users to train their AI models for free (and while millions are actually paying YouTube for a Premium subscription). Do tech companies think only AI is intelligent?