Overview
- YouTube actions identified by Kapwing show 16 top AI-slop channels hit since late 2025, with 11 removed outright and five emptied of videos, totaling roughly 4.72 billion views and 35 million subscribers.
- In a Jan. 21 letter, CEO Neal Mohan said YouTube will curb low-quality synthetic media by extending its spam- and clickbait-fighting systems and will remove harmful AI content that violates guidelines.
- Pinterest now offers a tuner to dial down AI images across categories, while TikTok has labeled at least 1.3 billion AI clips and is testing a For You feed slider to reduce AI-generated videos.
- Deezer says about 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks arrive daily and reports detecting and labeling more than 13.4 million AI tracks, as smaller services like Coda and Cara offer ways to block or flag AI content.
- Executives and experts say platforms will keep enabling creator AI tools even as they step up detection, labeling, and takedowns, with marketers valuing reduced AI spam as YouTube courts premium TV ad budgets.