How much of YouTube is AI-generated?
of sampled content classified AI-generated · 30-day average
As of 2026-10-05, 12.4% of content sampled from YouTube was classified AI-generated by Dead Internet Monitor (30-day volume-weighted average, across 67,963 classified items).
- Sample: 67,963 classified items (cumulative, whole platform). The rate is the 30-day, volume-weighted average — the same figure shown on the dashboard and the per-platform badge.
- Versus the internet-wide rate: Dead Internet Monitor's all-source 30-day AI rate is 13.8%. YouTube runs 0.9× that rate — at or below the internet-wide baseline.
- Excluding automated moderation: 12.4% (removes AutoModerator-type posts).
- Excluding org-handle syndication: 12.4% (removes verified-org auto-posts).
- Dead Internet Index: 7.4.
Communities within YouTube
The 2 communities tracked on this platform, ranked by 30-day AI rate. Each links to its full evidence record — trend, sample size, and methodology.
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How this is measured
Each item collected from YouTube is classified by an LLM as AI-generated, human, or uncertain. The headline figure is the 30-day, volume-weighted share classified AI-generated — high-volume days count proportionally more. Read the full methodology, explore every community on the dashboard, or pull the underlying data from the open data API (CC BY 4.0).