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YouTube's AI Slop Crackdown Can't Tell a Directed AI Film From a Bot Farm
In January 2026, YouTube terminated 16 channels that had racked up a combined 4.7 billion lifetime views and roughly $10 million a year in ad revenue. The platform called it a crackdown on “AI slop.” What YouTube actually enforces is narrower and blunter than that headline suggests: its systems