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Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pretty simple, actually. Content farms push as much media out as possible to get as much attention and views as they can. This generates ad revenue. Advertisers pay Google for the ads, Google pays content creators.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh wow. I didn't know that.