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📝 TL;DR Kapwing’s new “AI Slop Report” estimates that roughly a third of a new YouTube user’s Shorts feed is low quality AI content. A small group of AI driven channels is racking up billions of views and millions in ad revenue, while thoughtful human made videos fight to stay visible. 🧠 Overview The report looks at how much “AI slop” and “brainrot” has crept into YouTube, and which countries and channels are benefitting most from it. AI slop is defined as careless, low effort auto generated video made to farm views or push opinions, while brainrot is compulsive, nonsensical content that leaves you feeling mentally drained. The big picture, low quality AI video is no longer a fringe problem, it is now a structural part of what many people see by default. 📜 The Announcement In November 2025, Kapwing published the “AI Slop Report, The Global Rise of Low Quality AI Videos,” based on social data and YouTube trends from October 2025. The team manually analyzed the top 100 trending YouTube channels in every country, flagged AI slop channels, pulled view, subscriber, and revenue estimates, then tested a fresh YouTube Shorts account to see what a new user is shown. The headline findings, Spain’s trending slop channels have over 20.22 million subscribers, South Korea’s have 8.45 billion views, one Indian channel is estimated to earn about 4.25 million dollars a year, and around 33 percent of Shorts on a new feed are brainrot. ⚙️ How It Works • Clear definitions first - AI slop is defined as careless, low quality content generated with automatic tools to farm views or sway opinion, while brainrot is compulsive, nonsensical content that seems to corrode your attention and is often AI generated. • Global channel scan - Researchers pulled the top 100 trending channels in every country, then tagged which ones primarily publish AI slop or brainrot, building a worldwide view of where this content is gaining ground.

As AI becomes more capable, faster, and more accessible, it is easy to assume that intelligence itself is becoming abundant. Answers are everywhere. Outputs arrive instantly. Recommendations appear before we even finish asking the question. Yet beneath this surface abundance, something else is quietly becoming more valuable. Human judgment. In a world where information is cheap and generation is automated, the ability to decide what matters, what to trust, and what to act on is no longer assumed. It is scarce. ------------ Context: When More Answers Create More Uncertainty ------------ AI has dramatically reduced the friction of producing content, analysis, and ideas. What once took hours now takes minutes. What once required expertise now requires access. On the surface, this looks like a clear productivity win. But many people are discovering an unexpected side effect. The more options AI produces, the harder it can feel to choose. Multiple drafts, competing recommendations, and confident sounding explanations arrive all at once. Instead of clarity, we sometimes experience overload. Inside teams and organizations, this often shows up as stalled decisions. People circulate AI-generated outputs without resolution. Discussions become longer, not shorter. The presence of many plausible answers makes it harder to commit to one. This is not a failure of AI capability. It is a shift in where the real work now lives. When generation becomes easy, discernment becomes the bottleneck. ------------ Judgment Is Not the Same as Intelligence ------------ We often conflate intelligence with judgment, but they are not the same thing. Intelligence produces options. Judgment chooses among them. Intelligence can scale quickly. Judgment does not. AI excels at pattern recognition, synthesis, and variation. It can surface possibilities we might not have considered. What it cannot do is decide which option aligns with our values, context, or long-term goals. That decision still sits firmly with us.