“As AI-generated content spreads across YouTube, leading national organizations and experts — including “The Anxious Generation” author Jonathan Haidt, pediatrician and researcher Dr. Jenny Radesky, American Federation of Teachers, and the National Black Child Development Institute — are demanding YouTube protect children from “AI slop.”
“In a letter written and organized by Fairplay and sent today to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google (which owns YouTube), and Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube, the 230-plus organizations and experts say AI slop “harms children’s development by distorting their sense of reality, overwhelming their learning processes, and hijacking their attention”
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