Bastian Jaeger

So their CEO, his name is Neil Mohan.

Every year he sends out an annual letter that basically says these are the things that we're going to prioritize in the year to come.

And so this year it's AI slop.

He's saying that they need to reduce AI slop and get better at detecting deep fakes.

Those are their priorities.

And he's saying it's getting harder to detect the difference between real videos and synthetic or AI created videos.

And that's a problem.

And from where I sit, that's an existential threat to the very value of YouTube.

Why would we watch YouTube if we can't tell the difference between videos that are created and videos that are real?

And so I think this is a good thing, but at the same time, I think there's a huge amount of irony in the guy from YouTube saying this is a problem because YouTube is owned by Google.

Google also has a tool called VO3.

Google also has an AI platform called Gemini.

Google is one of the biggest sources of AI-generated deepfakes and misinformation online.

And a lot of the videos that are flooding YouTube, and by some estimates, 20%,

of newly suggested content on YouTube is AI generated.

10% of channels are completely AI as well.

And the irony that

He's saying it's a problem, yet the source of it is his own company.

I find kind of amusing and ironic and somewhat sad.

They're all doing this.