Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
That’s very optimistic. I recently spotted a short by one of these AI channels with 1.2 Billion views. Billion. With a B. I don’t think this will hurt the AI channels at all, they’ll easily game the algorithm or just use bots to artificially inflate their view count and Youtube will do nothing because it looks good to advertisers and they can charge more for ads.
That’s very optimistic. I recently spotted a short by one of these AI channels with 1.2 Billion views. Billion. With a B. I don’t think this will hurt the AI channels at all, they’ll easily game the algorithm or just use bots to artificially inflate their view count and Youtube will do nothing because it looks good to advertisers and they can charge more for ads.