🎙️ EP 174: 21% of YouTube Is AI Slop, Meta’s Self‑Coding AI & SoftBank’s $41B Bet

What if the videos you’re watching aren’t made by people anymore? Today’s episode dives into how AI junk is flooding YouTube, why it still makes millions, and what it says about where the internet is heading.

We’ll talk about:

• Why 21% of videos shown to new YouTube users are low‑quality AI “slop”
• How AI slop channels pull billions of views and millions in ad revenue
• Meta’s new self‑coding AI that learns by breaking and fixing its own code
• Google’s Opal inside Gemini, making no‑code AI apps stupidly easy
• SoftBank’s massive $41B investment in OpenAI and what it signals for 2026
• A scary idea behind it all: the Dead Internet Theory becoming real

Keywords: AI slop, Meta AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI, SoftBank, GPT‑5.2, AI tools, Dead Internet Theo ...