--- title: "Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds" url: https://daily.dev/posts/nearly-60-of-tiktok-videos-shown-to-new-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds-s7pnkns71 source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/tiktok-ai-slop-59-percent-new-users-kapwing-study type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-21T16:57:44.260Z updated: 2026-06-21T16:58:05.573Z tags: ["tiktok"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Kapwing study of 10,742 TikTok videos found that 59% of content shown to brand-new accounts is AI-generated junk — roughly three times the rate on YouTube Shorts. Kids' content is the worst-hit category, with 97 out of 100 videos in the #CartoonKids hashtag being AI-generated. Educational, health, and history content are also heavily saturated. Experts warn of 'toddler AI misinformation at an industrial scale.' TikTok has introduced opt-in controls but critics say they are insufficient. The study highlights a structural incentive problem: AI enables volume-based content farming that overwhelms platform moderation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos-lfdznrfvs) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tiktok](https://daily.dev/tags/tiktok) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nearly-60-of-tiktok-videos-shown-to-new-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds-s7pnkns71)