I've seen documentaries on youtube filled with AI slop. You can tell when they get stuck repeating the same phrase over and over, or when they randomly throw in some weird claim.
It's not just the shorts. I've been seeing a flood of YT videos purporting to be by relatively well known people like George Conway and Rachel Maddow and every one of them is an AI generated video using their likeness and voice. Amazingly, YT has no mechanism for reporting this.
Fortunately, in most cases there are a few "tells": 1. The facial expressions (blinking, eyebrow movement) don't match the content and tend to be weirdly either too repetitive or not repetitive enough. 2. You'll see hand gestures repeated exactly over and over that are out of sync to the content 3. The voice will sound weirdly emotionless. Not robotic, but a little too flat, especially given the subject matter. 4. They tend to always wear exactly the same clothing even across many days or weeks of posts. You can check this by going to their channel and looking back over the last few posts.
New YouTube accounts face an immediate flood of automated AI slop and empty brainrot. Kapwing's analysis reveals the massive profits behind this multi-million dollar business with digital trash.