📱YouTube: 20% of Videos Are Low‑Quality AI Content
On YouTube, entire channels upload nothing but low‑quality, AI‑generated videos – yet they attract millions of subscribers and billions of views.
A study by video‑editing company Kapwing found that when researchers created a fresh YouTube account and analyzed the first 500 Shorts in the feed, 104 videos (21%) were low‑quality AI content, while 165 (33%) were “brainrot” – content designed to waste attention without value.
Researchers also tracked large channels that rely solely on neural networks to produce videos:
🔥Spain: such channels gathered the most subscribers – 22.2M.
🔥South Korea: highest view count – 8.45B.
🔥India: the most‑watched single channel, Bandar Apna Dost, with 2.07B views and estimated annual revenue exceeding $4.2M.
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On YouTube, entire channels upload nothing but low‑quality, AI‑generated videos – yet they attract millions of subscribers and billions of views.
A study by video‑editing company Kapwing found that when researchers created a fresh YouTube account and analyzed the first 500 Shorts in the feed, 104 videos (21%) were low‑quality AI content, while 165 (33%) were “brainrot” – content designed to waste attention without value.
Researchers also tracked large channels that rely solely on neural networks to produce videos:
🔥Spain: such channels gathered the most subscribers – 22.2M.
🔥South Korea: highest view count – 8.45B.
🔥India: the most‑watched single channel, Bandar Apna Dost, with 2.07B views and estimated annual revenue exceeding $4.2M.
Bottom line: New users entering YouTube are quickly exposed to “trash AI content.” Why? It’s unclear – perhaps platform algorithms actively promote it, or simply because so many people watch it.
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