4 of the top 10 YouTube channels are AI-generated

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YouTube is quietly sliding into an AI takeover—four of the top 10 channels by subscribers in May now churn out 100% AI-generated videos, from “cute animals in peril” shorts made with Hailuo to ’80s-style synth jams cooked up on Suno. These channels crank out content nonstop (often for just cents a clip), and YouTube’s algorithm can’t get enough: views-to-subscriber ratios have shot through the roof, vaulting AI players from obscurity to tens of millions of followers in mere months.

Meanwhile, YouTube’s doubling down on Shorts—tweaking view counts to favor loops, rolling out Veo-and-Lens AI experiments, and prioritizing quick, clickable clips over costly, human-made productions. As ad dollars flow and creators migrate to TikTok and Instagram, the platform risks becoming a bot circus: soon you might log in and wonder where all the real people went.