I Prototyped a Tool to Detect AI Slop on YouTube Kids Videos

Remember Elsagate? In 2017, YouTube struggled with disturbing videos hid behind familiar characters like Elsa and Peppa Pig to lure children into watching violence and fetish content ( BBC ). YouTube changed its algorithms and updated its “Kids Quality Principles.” In one clip, Spiderman and Elsa, from Frozen, fire machine guns (BBC, 2017) AI has made the problem exponentially worse. “Educational”…