YouTube is filling up with AI slop targeted at young children -- and in some cases, it's providing dangerous information.

The Times focused primarily on YouTube Shorts when conducting its analysis of AI videos, as most AI tools default to short-form video and offer vertical formatting options.

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AI-powered kids content wracks up billions of YouTube views, despite pervasive slop. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via YouTube still hasn't solved its AI problem. Digitally faked content is still ...

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The New York Times reviewed these clips, along with more than 1,000 other videos recommended to young children on YouTube, and found that the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, ...

Hundreds of thousands of YouTube users are reporting problems with the video sharing platform. More than 300,000 people reported having issues with YouTube as of 6:50 p.m. MT/ 7:50 p.m. CT on Tuesday, ...

YouTube fixed a problem with its recommendations system that caused more than 350,000 users to experience problems with the streaming site, saying all of its platforms are back to normal. The outages ...

Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue. By David McCabe TikTok said on Tuesday that its ...

Last year, like 2024, 2023, and, well, probably most years since 2005, was the Year of YouTube. The video platform has become massively successful in every dimension: It’s got at least 2.5 billion ...

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