"About 59% of TikTok videos served to a new account's For You feed are AI slop," [1]writes Search Engine Journal , "according to a [2]report from Kapwing , the video creation tool company. That's roughly three times the rate Kapwing found on YouTube."

> The company manually reviewed over 10,000 TikTok videos across 20 categories and ran a separate fresh-account test, counting AI-generated content in the first 500 For You videos. Kapwing ran the same fresh-account test on YouTube and found that 104 of the first 500 Shorts, or 21%, were AI slop. On TikTok, 294 of 500 For You videos hit that threshold...

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> Of the 2,000 videos Kapwing reviewed in TikTok's Kids category, 57% were AI slop. That was the highest rate of any category in the analysis. The highest-rate tag was #cartoonkids, where 97 of 100 featured videos were AI-generated. Tags like #cartoons and #babysong both reached 83%, and #forkids came in at 79%. After Kids, the next highest AI slop rates were in Science and Education (35%), Health (33%), and History (33%). All three are categories where visual illustration and voiceover narration make up much of the content.

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> On the other end, categories where on-camera presence or physical demonstration are central had the lowest rates. Fashion came in at 1.3%, Music at 1.5%, and Fitness at 1.6%.

The article notes that by last November, TikTok "had already labeled 1.3 billion videos as AI-generated, according to the report."



[1] https://www.searchenginejournal.com/tiktok-shows-3x-more-ai-slop-than-youtube-report-finds/579521/

[2] https://www.kapwing.com/resources/the-tiktok-ai-slop-report/