Yaaaawn - history so boring, I don't want to learn stuff

Based on this article by Jason Koebler at 404media.

A growing ecosystem of AI-generated "slop" is flooding YouTube, particularly in the form of long, inaccurate history videos designed as sleep aids, which are drowning out human-made content. Real historians and creators, who spend months on research, are seeing their views decline and are being forced to change their formats just to prove they are not robots.

This trend poses a significant threat to public knowledge, as the AI-generated content "flattens" and rewrites history with simplified, often false information regurgitated from the internet. Despite the platform's policies against mass-produced content, creators report that the problem is worsening, forcing them to diversify to other platforms to survive.

Check out the article and see some real slop.

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