YouTube and Substack are targeting AI slop

# AI-Generated Content Is Losing Trust Fast People are increasingly skeptical of AI-written articles and posts—trust in AI news answers has dropped to just 20%, and consumers who find AI helpful fell from 82% to 54% in a single year. YouTube and Substack are now cracking down on low-quality AI content (called "AI slop"), though they're trying to do so carefully since outright bans risk removing genuinely useful AI assistance alongside the junk. The core problem: AI made creating content so cheap that the internet got flooded with it, and people are tired of wading through mediocre automated writing.