{"id":41913,"date":"2025-08-12T01:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/cat-soap-operas-and-babies-trapped-in-space-the-ai-slop-taking-over-youtube-15\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:06:20","slug":"cat-soap-operas-and-babies-trapped-in-space-the-ai-slop-taking-over-youtube-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/cat-soap-operas-and-babies-trapped-in-space-the-ai-slop-taking-over-youtube-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the \u2018AI slop\u2019 taking over YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videos<\/p>\n<p>Babies trapped in space, zombie football stars and cat soap operas: welcome to YouTube in the era of AI video.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing YouTube channels globally are showing AI-generated content only, as breakthroughs in the technology spur a flood of artificial content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SuperCatLeague\/shorts\">Super Cat League <\/a>(3.9 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%B2\/shorts\">\u09ac\u099c\u09b2 \u09ae\u09bf\u09df\u09be 767k<\/a> (2 million subscribers \u2013 this account has since been closed)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LsbPowerGaming\">LSB POWER GAMING<\/a> (1.7 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AmiteNowHere\/shorts\">Amite Now Here<\/a> (1.4 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Starway-v5z\/shorts\">Starway<\/a> (2.8 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AmyyRoblox1\/shorts\">AmyyRoblox<\/a> (2.4 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@againrazvai\">Again Raz Vai<\/a> (1.8 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CuentosFacianantes\/shorts\">Cuentos Facinantes<\/a> (4.8 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HEROISINSANOS-m9s\/shorts\">MIRANHAINSANO<\/a> (4.9 million subscribers)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/11\/cat-soap-operas-and-babies-trapped-in-space-the-ai-slop-taking-over-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videos Babies trapped in space, zombie football stars and cat soap operas: welcome to YouTube in the era of AI video. Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing YouTube channels globally are showing AI-generated content only, as breakthroughs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}