{"id":203070,"date":"2025-06-21T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203070\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T17:33:10","slug":"youtube-will-add-an-ai-slop-button-thanks-to-googles-veo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/203070\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google\u2019s Veo 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I told you that AI slop<\/a> was coming for your YouTube content<\/a>, and did you believe me? I don\u2019t know, maybe you did, but if you didn\u2019t believe before, you certainly will now. According to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, who gave a keynote at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on Wednesday, YouTube is getting a new tool that generates Shorts from \u201cscratch.\u201d By scratch, I mean with the help of Google\u2019s recently unveiled Veo 3 AI generator<\/a>. That\u2019s right, a one-stop shop for AI slop is incoming, which should be great if you like not ever knowing what\u2019s real or fake.<\/p>\n

Mohan, like many executives in tech and otherwise, is decidedly very excited about the potential for AI to shake up the game. Here\u2019s what he said during his keynote, per the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCommunities will continue to surprise us with the power of their collective fandom. And cutting-edge AI technology will push the limits of human creativity. My biggest bet is that YouTube will continue to be the stage where it all happens. Where anyone with a story to share can turn their dream into a career\u2026 and anyone with a voice can bring people together and change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sure, that\u2019s one possibility, I guess. The other possibility? A new and heaping mountain of junk content that neither enriches your general selection of YouTube fodder nor protects the already embattled line between reality and fiction. I hate to be the resident slippery slope guy, but how far are we really going to take this? According to Mohan, pretty freakin\u2019 far. \u201cThe possibilities with AI are limitless,\u201d Mohan said during the keynote. \u201cA lot can change in a generation. Entertainment itself has changed more in the last two decades than any other time in history. Creators led this revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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people are using veo3 to bring history to life in the form of vlogs \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n

via HistoryVisualizedbyAI on YouTube pic.twitter.com\/C5OJCbyTBJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) June 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s a little ironic to extol the creator-led content revolution on one hand and introduce a watershed tool that helps vacuum up all of their content and regurgitate it into AI slop on the other, but hey, who\u2019s counting? Oh, that\u2019s right, Hollywood is. As noted by the Hollywood Reporter, YouTube has already struck a deal with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) that gives artists and athletes control over their likeness. But that\u2019s just some artists who are okay with capitulating to the apparent tsunami of video generation. Hundreds of other actors<\/a> have already voiced their concerns over the potential for AI to ruin their careers and plunder their intellectual property. As a result, they\u2019ve called for regulation on generative AI and its implementation. You may have gathered from the simple fact of my writing these words right now that those cries for a legal framework haven\u2019t really gone anywhere. They may never, to be honest, which brings me back to YouTube\u2019s plans for a future AI slop faucet.<\/p>\n

Here we are, on the precipice of real and fake, looking out at the horizon of God knows what, waiting for the deluge of AI slop to send us kicking and screaming into the ravine of existential AI pain. I\u2019m not saying YouTube\u2019s generative shorts are going to be the lynchpin in that frankly depressing, slop-filled future, but there\u2019s no denying it\u2019s a nod in a sloppy direction. I guess we may as well get used to it. I mean, it can\u2019t get any worse than MrBeast<\/a>, right? Right?<\/p>\n