{"id":949848,"date":"2025-07-25T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949848"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:14:19","slug":"youtubes-ai-slop-is-a-win-for-alphabet-but-what-about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/25\/youtubes-ai-slop-is-a-win-for-alphabet-but-what-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube\u2019s AI Slop Is a Win for Alphabet. But What About Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg Opinion) &#8212; There\u2019s a prevailing wisdom that AI-generated content, or slop as it\u2019s colloquially known, should make our skin crawl. AI models tend to generate uncanny faces, mangled hands and fantastical scenarios. Take this YouTube Short video of a baby that finds itself being shimmied up a baggage loader onto a jumbo jet, before donning an aviation headset and flying the plane. It has racked up more than 103 million views.<\/p>\n<p>So too have other AI-generated videos which are starting to dominate the platform in much the same way they\u2019ve proliferated across Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. Several of YouTube\u2019s most popular channels now feature AI-generated content heavily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg Opinion) &#8212; There\u2019s a prevailing wisdom that AI-generated content, or slop as it\u2019s colloquially known, should make our skin crawl. AI models tend to generate uncanny faces, mangled hands and fantastical scenarios. Take this YouTube Short video of a baby that finds itself being shimmied up a baggage loader onto a jumbo jet, before donning an aviation headset and flying the plane. It has racked up more than 103 million views. So too have other AI-generated videos which are starting to dominate the platform in much the same way they\u2019ve proliferated across Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. Several of YouTube\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}