Future YouTubers, heed this warning: Don’t freak people out with your slop. YouTube recently clarified its policies on what it considers to be “inauthentic content,” effectively cracking down on the low-effort, highly upsetting kinds of AI slop that have come to populate the platform more than anyone would like to admit. In a video uploaded by Creator Insider, the company’s official channel for creator-related updates, YouTube’s vice president of trust and safety, Matt Halprin, provided a deep dive into how YouTube is handling AI-generated content—though the company seems to want to avoid that label for it. Instead, it breaks it down into three buckets: generic and repetitive, “off-putting” and emotionally manipulative, and AI personas. All three are currently redlined by the company, preventing them from monetizing under YouTube Partner Policy rules. YouTube has technically had restrictions on this type of content since last year, when it started to attempt to put the toothpaste back in the tube after allowing AI to run wild across its platform. Back then, the company laid out the groundwork for cracking down on “inauthentic content,” specifically targeting accounts churning out “mass-produced and repetitious” videos.