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When visiting friends and family, you can likely share videos from your phone to your TV without needing to log in to any built-in apps. Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, ...

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A Kapwing study reveals how AI slop has become a global presence on YouTube, with billions of views and growing influence ...

As tools like OpenAI’s Sora and Google's Veo are making AI video creation more accessible than ever, over 21% of YouTube is ...

Video editing firm Kapwing highlights AI slop's definition as careless, low-quality content generated by computer ...

If you feel like you're seeing a lot more AI-generated slop on YouTube, you're right.