YouTube conquered TV, podcasts, and shorts. Will AI slop be its kryptonite?

YouTube conquered TV, podcasts, and shorts. Will AI slop be its kryptonite?

In this final chapter of How YouTube Ate TV, Fast Company’s oral history of YouTube, the platform migrates from computers and phones to the biggest screen in the house: the living-room TV. It also takes on TikTok with brief videos called Shorts and becomes a major destination for podcasts. And it begins to tackle one of its greatest opportunities—albeit a fraught one—by incorporating AI into the creation process. To succeed, it will have to do t…