If my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally".

Most of these kind of videos aren't fully SORA level AI anyway, they just use ChatGPT to make up a fake story and script they would otherwise have to make up themselves, which is much faster, and increases the chances one of them gets picked up by the algorithm and generates a few bucks in ad revenue.

> If my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally".

Sure. But if you live in a multi-apartment complex and someone's toilet on the far side of the complex is overflowing, you don't say "my apartment is flowing with raw sewage".

Maybe your part of the complex (YT) is drowning in raw sewage, mine is not, and I'm vaguely confident that the complex (YT) is large enough that at this point in time, most parts of it are still functioning "as intended".

I think YT Shorts IS overwhelmed with complete garbage. There are lots of great channels I watch that don’t have issue.

But YT shorts is the one place on YT that tries to frequently show you new uploads and stuff outside of your normal algorithm, and there is so much AI on there.