It seems that YouTube now needs your help to moderate AI-generated content on the platform. Lifehacker reports that YouTube has started asking users whether they think videos are “AI slop.”
Yep, that’s the actual term being used by YouTube in its questions. According to a screenshot on Reddit, the question captured verbatim states: “Did this feel like AI slop?” You can then response with one of five choices: “Not at all,” “Slightly,” “Moderately,” “Very much,” or “Extremely.”
There appears to be some variation in how YouTube frames the question. Some users report only being asked a simple yes-or-no question, while others are saying they’re asked to rate how much a video feels like AI junk on that scale from “Not at all” to “Extremely.”
It may be worth taking the whole thing with a pinch of salt. After all, it’s fairly easy to fake all kinds of screenshots these days. However, it’s also worth noting that YouTube’s CEO, Neal Mohan, has actually used the term “AI slop” in official statements, so it’s not that farfetched.
One question remains: whether YouTube and Google will use the feedback to help clear AI slop from the platform or whether they’ll use the responses to merely improve their own video AI.
