Can We No Longer Be Moved by Real Videos? The Flood of Low-Quality AI-Generated Content (“AI Slop”)

In this episode, I reflect on a growing sense of numbness when watching videos online.With so much AI-generated content circulating, even real footage can start to feel artificial, and moments that once felt moving now pass without much impact. I talk about YouTube’s plan to address low-quality AI-generated content, and how algorithms that favor speed and volume may be quietly wearing down our ability to recognize what feels genuine.Drawing from my own work and a recent trip through Europe, this episode isn’t an argument or a critique, but a personal observation: that our capacity to feel moved may not be gone—it may simply be tired from too much noise.It’s a quiet attempt to think about what “real” still means, and why encountering it properly still matters.