Guilty as charged. I often need white noise to lull my brain to sleep. And, what better way of procuring such "background mush" than to play a lengthy documentary on YouTube, replete with a sonorous narrator.

Yet, over the past month or so, Boring History channel has populated my bedtime routine. After all, the channel is filled to the brim with AI-generated, hours-long videos, that do their part fairly well: convince my hyper-active brain to go to sleep.

People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.

🔗 https://t.co/NvvEStKu2A https://t.co/NvvEStKu2A — 404 Media (@404mediaco) September 3, 2025

This relatively innocuous bedtime hack, however, has some serious drawbacks: people are going to sleep while being fed inaccurate facts, on

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