Study: Over 20% of New YouTube Feeds Saturated with 'AI Slop'

📌Key Points

• •Over 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop,' low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views.
• •A Kapwing study of 15,000 popular YouTube channels found 278 exclusively feature AI slop, collectively generating $117 million annually from 63 billion views and 221 million subscribers.
• •A new YouTube account experiment showed 104 out of 500 recommended videos were AI slop, with one-third categorized as 'brainrot.'
• •The term 'AI slop' was named Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, reflecting its widespread impact across social media, search engines, and e-commerce.
• •AI slop channels are globally distributed, with millions of followers in countries like Spain, Egypt, the US, and Brazil.
• •The phenomenon is driven by the democratization of content creation through large language models and pressure on product designers to integrate AI.