YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies

Monique Hinton rubbed her fingers together in one of her recent YouTube videos, signaling to her million-plus followers on the platform that she had a moneymaking business idea for them. She first asked ChatGPT to spit out “simple, repetitive” children’s song lyrics with “playful nonsense words like ‘la la,’ ‘na na’ or ‘clap clap,’” then plugged the results into a separate artificial intelligence video generator. Minutes later, the tool had packaged it all into a colorful, animated reel of smiling children, animals and shapes jumping in a circle and dancing on a stage surrounded by butterflies, balloons, rainbow swirls, sparkling ...