I hate that this kind of content is so successful, and I think YT could do a lot to lower the algorithmic priority of AI content, but at the end of the day engagement is engagement, and those videos are hugely successful.
People love slop.
I have seen this label before, I thought it meant that 'some' visuals were altered or generated. But it was shocking to me that the entire video was made by AI. The video of the researcher, his voice, all the visuals - all the snakes, the stitching together - everything is AI end to end. This is not "Made with AI", this is "Made without a human".
And most such videos - the first few comments would clearly mark it as "ai slop". But these two videos there was no such comment. People seem to be engaging as if this video was completely human - or atleast it seems to me.
Could be just my perception and maybe I am just catching upto how pervasive this all is.