Report: 59% of TikTok For You Feed Videos Are AI-Generated Content, Triple YouTube's Rate
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Matt G. Southern
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A Kapwing report analyzing over 10,000 TikTok videos found that approximately 59% of videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI-generated content ("AI slop"), compared to just 21% on YouTube Shorts. The study involved manual review across 20 categories and a fresh-account test counting AI content in the first 500 videos on each platform.
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· 3 pulledAbout 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop, according to a report from Kapwing
Kapwing ran the same fresh-account test on YouTube and found that 104 of the first 500 Shorts, or 21%, were AI slop
On TikTok, 294 of 500 For You videos hit that threshold
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