AI-created videos are quietly taking over YouTube – Sherwood News

ROBOT REVOLUTION YouTube no longer requires you. (Getty Images) In a profound change from how YouTube looked even just six months ago, four of the top 10 YouTube channels by subscribers in May featured AI-generated material in every video. Ryan Broderick , Adam Bumas YouTube has never stayed still for long.  The video powerhouse owned by Google started its life as a place to upload home movies, only to use its early scale to morph into a user-generated MTV, birthing an entire universe of homegrown celebrities. It’s since evolved in two competing directions: incentivizing longer, more professional videos to compete with Netflix but also shorter, more ephemeral videos to compete with TikTok. And it looks as if it’s changing again. The age of AI has finally arrived for YouTube, and it could be its most existential shift yet. Over the past few months, Garbage Day has tracked how a range of AI-generated videos have found increasing success on the platform, taking up attention and space over more professional creators. More than a few of them seemingly rely on inauthentic engagement to boost their attention — though, in a platform overrun with AI, it’s worth asking if that even matters. At
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