YouTube transforms: CEO reveals “AI Slop” problems and promises solutions

Recently, YouTube users have faced a common problem: the flood of low-quality content known as “AI Slop”, created by artificial intelligence.

Curiously, YouTube itself has promoted this phenomenon after implementing new tools for creating videos using artificial intelligence, using the Veo 3 model from Google, its parent company.

Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube, has for the first time acknowledged this problem in an open letter, where he outlined the platform’s future priorities for the year 2026.

In a less visible point, within the priority titled “Empower and protect creativity,” Mohan admits what many users already perceived: the rise of artificial intelligence is driving the production of low quality contentspecifically referring to the term “AI Slop.”

The term “Slop” is frequently used by critics of artificial intelligence to describe automatically generated content that seeks to easily generate visits and income, including Fake videos about current affairs or that use known intellectual property.

Unlike other CEOs in the industry who avoid using this term, Mohan acknowledges it; However, he clarifies that will not ban this type of content on YouTube.

Mohan argues that other trends popular today, such as ASMR or videos of people playing video games, were also initially poorly received; Although the comparison may be questionable, the executive appears to be aware of the need to act.

For this reason, YouTube’s CEO says the company is improving its systems to combat spam and clickbait with the aim of limit “the spread of repetitive, low-quality content” and “preserve the high-quality experience that users want”.

In relation to this, Mohan anticipates that YouTube’s top priority for 2026 will be supporting content creators and artists so that they generate new material for the platform.

Mohan has even declared that “YouTube is the new television”as content creators are the new “prime time,” based on data showing that YouTube is the number one streaming platform in the United States for the third year in a row.

A crucial part of the YouTube experience are Shorts, which from 2026 will also allow publications with imagesmaking the platform more like an Instagram-style social network.

Additionally, YouTube plans to increase its investment in YouTube Music, adding new features for artist discovery and exploring the “stories behind the songs,” suggesting the platform will offer deeper access to musicians and their recent releases.

For minors, YouTube will strengthen and simplify parental controls, allowing parents to decide how much time their children can spend watching Shorts videos, and It will even allow them to ban you from watching short videosthis being a novelty in the industry.