r/technology • u/Regular_Eggplant_248 • Jul 21 '25

Social Media YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/youtube-channels-propaganda-china-russia.html
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u/1xliquidx1_ Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

Nope, AI slop can still be monetized. The new rule just means posting the exact same video over and over again won't get you any money.

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u/JudiciousSasquatch Jul 22 '25

Wow! That’ll stop ‘em! Great job, Google!

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u/drake_warrior Jul 22 '25

Platforms like TikTok will monetize the AI slop even if YouTube doesn't, the real issue is the people who watch it and produce it. There should be zero demand for it.

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u/jimothee Jul 22 '25

Producing it takes almost no effort. Watching takes no effort. For as long as I've lived, I've never felt like I shared a taste in media with my fellow Americans. However I never really thought about how American's preference for LCD media would eventually develop into something much more detrimental than just tasteless radio/television.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

Did we forget Google has Gemini AI and is trying to platform AI

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u/SaltyLonghorn Jul 22 '25

Does this mean react content, it doesn't does it?

Think of how much storage space and bandwidth they could save demonetizing react vids.

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u/drmanhattanmar Jul 22 '25

There are react videos and there are react videos. What is unbelievably bad and stupid are these videos where a guy just sits at the bottom of the video, nodding his head, making interested faces and pointing upwards randomly. Now if there are for example historians reacting to cartoons but enrich the reaction with background information to the scenes or explaining stuff, this is another category for me.

But yeah, in general it could save a lot of space.

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u/Xytak Jul 22 '25

True. A react video by a historian adding commentary & analysis is different than a react video where some guy just says, "oh no she didn't!" a few times.

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u/Lord_Of_Carrots Jul 22 '25

Exactly. I have no respect for those who don't add anything to the original but putting all reaction channels to the same category is ridiculous. And it's pretty easy to tell which channels give genuine reactions and are fun/informative and which are pointless garbage

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u/SaltdPepper Jul 22 '25

Because everyone knows AI is notoriously bad at pumping out large batches of unique content /s

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u/lpeabody Jul 22 '25

That should be somewhat effective because it means content needs to be somewhat "original" which is more of a risk when it comes to spending money on GenAI.

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u/essieecks Jul 22 '25

Good thing it's not possible to send the same prompt to the video generator and get a slight variation of the exact same video, right?

Right?

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u/MiaowaraShiro Jul 22 '25

The thing I don't get about AI slop is it's not copyrightable... so why wouldn't someone just steal your shit and repost it?

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u/ShepherdessAnne Jul 22 '25

Everyone thinks the rule has to do with AI but it’s just a content mill rule, which AI can certainly have something to do with but which manually made YCH-style pushes also count for