Sometimes when I go to YouTube, I want to search something niche like “Asus <exact model name> Monitor Review” and scroll past the popular YouTubers to see what real people who have used the monitor for an extended time think.

Ironically, that’s when things start to get less real.

The title and thumbnail look legitimate, I open the video, begin to watch and I’m met with a voice that sounds relatively human, but sometimes makes a weird error like mispronouncing a word or strange gaps between what they say.

The footage looks ok, but something about it feels off, or there’s too much “stock” content, As example when something is frustrating in the video, a random guy shows up being frustrated in a room, which feels like something you’d type into an AI Chatbot.

Some other videos are just a slideshow of realistic looking pictures with a 95% there but-not-all-the-way voice, much different than a Text-To-Speech engine.

That’s because these are likely stitched together by AI, and this is what people consider AI slop.

On TikTok, we see “AI generated content” at the bottom of the screen as we infinitely scroll our time away, where it detects it has been used, but I’ve rarely seen such a thing on YouTube. That said, their version of TikTok, Shorts, is something I tend to completely skip altogether unless its forced upon me, as it’s just not YouTube.

Now, they’ve decided to join the bandwagon to make this more upfront.

On a recent news post, the part that matters here is that they’ll be automatically scanning videos, likely with AI, and putting “made with AI” below the video, directly above the description.

ArtificiaI Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence.

Neat.

Usually I’d have a lot to complain about when it comes to YouTube, but this is a good move in my opinion. It probably wont stop people clicking the videos as the thumbnail-title clickbait is a tale as old as time, but for the increasingly loud crowd who are completely against AI, or people like me who would just rather hear a human’s review of something rather than a computer, this is a small win.

Maybe I should put this on my posts now that all content on the internet is increasingly suspicious.

This post was not generated by AI. The picture at the top was, i could never make something like that.

…Which is exactly what an AI would say. Em Dash.