I keep seeing them in the recommended shorts.
I have a pretty firm rule now, if I click a channel that I don't subscribe to and it is one of the b-roll footage with voiceover channels, it gets immediately put on my "don't recommend" list. I just assume that it's pure AI created now. There's actually a bit of an epidemic on there with AI channels copying successful voice over channel styles in a bunch of niches and flooding out the creator with AI copycat content.
I don't quite get the benefit from Google's standpoint though, I don't think a lot of this AI content passes the "uncanny valley" test and human viewers will tire of it very quickly and their youtube watch time will decrease as a result.
It sometimes feels like they enshittify for the sake of enshittifying.
