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YouTube has a serious slop problem.
The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos explicitly aimed at toddlers and preschoolers to fake movie trailers. It’s become such a wasteland that some channels are starting to curate their playlists as being “no AI,” in an apparent effort to lure in users who’ve become fed up with the trend.
And despite YouTube battling the slop in a largely symbolic game of Whack-a-Mole, many channels are still falling through the cracks. One channel, dubbed Joe Liza WWE, which was initially created in 2007 and boasts just shy of 2,000 users, has been posting a slew of up to two-hour videos discussing the World Wrestling Entertainment industry and all the drama that surrounds it.
And beyond being a haphazardly put together barrage of real and AI-generated footage that’s randomly interspersed with clips of the video game “WWE 2K,” some incredible red flags come up when you actually listen to the accompanying, robotic voiceover.
As one unsettled Bluesky user noticed, some of the recent uploads include the male voice of a bot that frequently melts down into disturbing, nonsensical repetitions of a single word for several minutes at a time.
The baffling voiceovers demonstrate how AI slop has enabled a content ecosystem in entire long-form videos are being published that seemingly not a single human creator ever watched in entirety. In fact, they’re proliferating wildly — while potentially making it harder for real content creators to stand out in the process.
One weeks-old clip, which has since been made private, has the AI narrator repeat the word “what” or “whoa” in increasingly animated ways, culminating in obscene mouth noises. Several other videos have the host trip up on the same word as well, as YouTube users helpfully point out in the video’s comments.
“I’m crying bro, this is the funniest sh*t ever,” one commenter wrote.
“So are we gonna talk about the AI voiceover having a f***ing stroke four minutes in or what,” another user wrote in the comments of a separate 26-minute video.
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