Google announced that they were updating their YouTube Partner Program monetization policies. It is widely understood that this is meant to deal with ai slop.

Apparently it caused some uproar, and so Sarah from TeamYouTube was thrown to the wolves to explain the changes.

To be clear, we’re not introducing a new YPP policy. This is a minor update to our long-standing “repetitious content” guideline.

Minor update is such a great phrase. Someone should name a villain Minor Update.

this update is to clarify that this policy includes content that is mass-produced or repetitive, which is content viewers often consider spam.

Google doesn't want to monetize ai slop channels. But in updating their policies they tried to find a good starting place for defining ai slop:

we’ve always required content to be original and authentic for YPP.

Unoriginal and inauthentic = ai slop

Good thing those words are easy to nail down.

But, what's best about this is the comments Sarah got, some of which I have screenshotted for you here:

Clearly Google has a handle on slop comments...

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Good. Evening. Scorsby. Thank. You. You. Helped. Me. To. Increase. More. My. Mood. That. Crack. Me. Up. XD.

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I mean, sometimes I come across these kinds of comments and they do strike me as -- dare I say -- poetic?

Am happy for this

followed up by

I hope you and hur have a horrible deth

is really kinda good. I wrote a story once that included some YouTube comments and it took me so long to try to get the style down...hours and hours of my life, and here come these guys just popping it out like it's nothing.

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poetic

fit for the gods. theres no feigning pure genius.