YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces

YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its inauthentic content policy, a quiet rename of the old “repetitious content” rules. The channels […] This story continues at The Next Web