YouTube Mistakenly Penalizes Kurzgesagt for AI-Generated Slop

While YouTube often rewards the outrageous and exploitative, Kurzgesagt has maintained a steady following without sensationalizing. German for “in short,” Kurzgesagt aims to explore science in succinct and accessible ways, accomplished through amusing animations. A recent video, concerning microscopic superpredators, was set to private before being removed altogether. As it turns out, the bizarre history of science has now caught up to them, as YouTube’s AI detection mistook their upload for slop. “Every creator’s worst nightmare just happened to us,” posted Kurzgesagt, “the YouTube algorithm actually blocked us.”