AI slop goes mainstream as YouTube cashes in

AI slop goes mainstream as YouTube cashes in

There’s a prevailing wisdom that AI-generated content, or “slop” as it’s colloquially known, should make our skin crawl. AI models tend to generate uncanny faces, mangled hands and fantastical scenarios. Take this YouTube Short video of a baby that finds itself being shimmied up a baggage loader onto a jumbo jet, before donning an aviation…

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YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo 3 AI video generation

YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo 3 AI video generation

YouTube Shorts will soon incorporate Veo 3, YouTube’s advanced AI video generation model, later this year. This announcement came from YouTube CEO Neal Mohan during a keynote at Cannes Lions. Read: iPadOS 26 unleashes Mac-like productivity Currently, Shorts creators can utilize the previous-generation Veo 2 model for features like generating backgrounds with Dream Screen and…

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