If you’ve ever opened YouTube and seen a talking AI SpongeBob, a looping slime video, or something that feels engineered to ...

That's according to new research from video-editing company Kapwing (as reported by the Guardian ), which found that more than one in every five videos that the YouTube Shorts algorithm shows new ...

A Kapwing study reveals how AI slop has become a global presence on YouTube, with billions of views and growing influence ...

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This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

YouTube is a bit of a mess right now. It’s nowhere near as bad as Instagram or TikTok on this front, but it’s still easy to lose hours scrolling through YouTube videos and Shorts on your ...

YouTube Shorts, the shortform platform from Google-owned video giant YouTube, has seen massive success since its launch in September 2020. Today, an estimated 1% of all waking human hours are spent ...