Arijeta Lajka

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76 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 6 Mar

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Hard Fork · OpenAI's Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop · 6 Mar 2026 podcast

Thank you so much for having me.

Yeah, so no toddlers were involved in the making of this story.

We had some ethical concerns there about showing them these videos repeatedly.

But I started by getting interested in this because there is so much AI slop on all of our social media feeds, regardless of the platform.

And I was interested in learning more about how this content is being presented to children and how it's being moderated.

And so where do many children watch media?

It's YouTube.

So I started by looking at channels that parents approve of, channels like Miss Rachel and Bluey that are considered more high quality and thoughtful, and other popular channels like Cocomelon and said, well, if I click on a Cocomelon video...

and I am a toddler, and I look at the recommended videos right next to that video, what sort of videos would I be recommended?

And we focused on YouTube Shorts because a lot of these AI tools default to this vertical format.

And so we just started scrolling through the feed and making a note of the different videos we were seeing.

One of my colleagues actually coded a tool where I wasn't really interacting with the screen, so it wouldn't influence the algorithm.

And I was just like scrolling down and it was making a note of all the different links I was seeing.

And then we later analyzed these videos frame by frame, determined which videos were AI generated.

So we started looking at regular YouTube in a private browser because a lot of parents tend to put on their own YouTube accounts for their children.

But then we also look through YouTube Kids, you know, because it is a more controlled environment with content that's supposed to be approved for children.

So I think, especially when I was watching channels like Miss Rachel and Bluey, I was expecting to see content that would be more in the lines of those programs, right?

More Bluey shorts.

And I wasn't really seeing that.

I was surprised just about how much AI-generated content was being recommended.

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