Category: Science / Technology
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AI Slop Is Flooding YouTube Because People Keep Watching It
Researchers analyzed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels—the top 100 trending in every country—and discovered that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Together, these channels have amassed more than 63 billion views and 221 million subscribers.
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Dark Patterns: Study Shows How TikTok Harms Our Memory
A team of scientists from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, designed a study to find out if short-form videos are frying our brains, and the answer they got was yes. Very much so.