When YouTube viewers volunteered to report videos they regretted watching, 71% of them were recommended by YouTube's own algorithms, according to a Mozilla study. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior ...

YouTube is the second most-cited social media platform in AI Search , behind only Reddit. Across 5.5 million social media citations in the dataset, YouTube accounted for 31.8% of citation volume.

A new study by Kapwing has found that 20% of YouTube videos are all AI slop — and it looks like children are the most impacted. Featured Video AI slop might seem like an urban myth, but it's more ...

According to new research from Kapwing, more than one in five videos recommended to brand-new YouTube accounts are low-quality, AI-generated clips appropriately known as "AI slop." These videos, which ...

In 2025, the journal of Health Communication published a study that was described as a theory-driven content analysis of YouTube videos that focused on promoting mental health among college students.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube's algorithm recommends right-wing, extremist videos to users — even if they haven't interacted with that content before — ...

Researchers analysed highly viewed YouTube videos on nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and found most recommendations lacked ...