B
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21% -- ai generated content percentage for YouTube Shorts feed (2025-10)
21% of the first 500 YouTube Shorts presented to a new account were identified as AI-generated.
- Based on a test of the first 500 YouTube Shorts presented to a single new account
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21%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-10
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B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
71
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Kapwing
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Tier A
https://www.netinfluencer.com/ai-generated-content-accounts-for-third-of-youtube-shorts-feed-kapwing… ↗
Source Article
AI-Generated Content Accounts For Third Of YouTube Shorts Feed, Kapwing Research Shows
Video editing platform Kapwing analyzed trending YouTube channels and new-user feeds to quantify the prevalence of AI-generated and low-quality content on YouTube Shorts, finding that approximately one-third of Shorts shown to new users consist of what researchers classify as “brainrot” videos.
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Kapwing
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Analysis of the first 500 YouTube Shorts presented to a new account.
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YouTube Shorts feed: 21% ai generated content percentage. Source: Kapwing (2025-10). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-content-youtube-shorts-ai-generated
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-content-youtube-shorts-ai-generated" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>21%</strong> -- ai generated content percentage for YouTube Shorts feed<br><small>Source: Kapwing (2025-10) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-content-youtube-shorts-ai-generated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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