More than 20% of videos recommended to brand-new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated clips known as AI slop, according to a study released last month by researchers at Kapwing, a video editing platform, who analysed the first 500 Shorts shown to a newly created account and identified 104 videos generated
On 11th December 2025, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI's short-form video generator. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity, whilst the
TikTok owner ByteDance unveiled Seedance 1.0, a new artificial intelligence model for video generation in June 2025, which according to independent tests outperforms rival systems including Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora. Based on the latest results from Artificial Analysis, an internationally renowned evaluation platform,
