With All The AI Slop, Is TikTok Even Worth Being On Anymore?

We’re all getting tired of the AI slop that’s being handed to us, and it’s even worse when you have to compete with it. One platform where it’s particularly egregious is TikTok, and a new report from Kapwing outlines the problem in detail. We’ll talk about what we’re seeing first, and then I’ll address how it affects your music.

The Numbers Aren’t Good

First Kapwing looked at 10,742 TikTok videos across the most popular tags in 20 categories, including Science, Beauty, History, Advice, Food, Business, Books, Travel, Fitness, Gaming, and Music.

Here’s what the report found:

59% of videos served to a new TikTok account’s “For You” page are AI slop, which is three times as much as a new YouTube user encounters.

57.4% of all TikTok videos that are aimed at children are AI slop

Science and Education (35.0%), Health (33.8%), and History (33.5%) are also high in AI-generated content
74% of videos using the hashtag #healthtips are slop
In the top nine categories, more than one in ten videos were AI slop.

Videos in the Fitness (1.6%), Music (1.5%), and Fashion (1.3%) categories are almost entirely human-made (Yay!).
It’s not just video, but scripts, summaries, and descriptions were also AI-generated, and many were found to contain significant mistakes.

Does This Affect Your Music?

First of all, whether is video is AI-generated or human made, it’s usually accompanied by music – that’s the good part.

The bad part is that people, especially young people, are becoming more and more negative about AI in general as the weeks go by, and they’re able to spot it immediately. That means that an AI-generated video is not likely to go viral.

What’s more, kids are being trained early about AI slop, which means at some point early in their lives, they grow tired of it and search for human made content.

Remember how royalties work on TikTok. You don’t get paid for views, you get paid for the number of videos that contain your music. That’s why if a video has a million views, the artist will make just around $0.03, but if that same song was used in a million videos, the royalty payout will be about $30,000.

The bottom line is that so many social networks are becoming reservoirs of AI slop and there’s a genuine dislike for it by the general public. Avoid it at all costs.