YouTube Shorts AI slop: an originality checklist for your pipeline
People search 'youtube shorts ai slop'. A checklist of choices that make a generated Short yours, each tied to a Sume step and its cost.
Search suggestions today include 'youtube shorts ai slop'. This post does not claim to know how YouTube ranks or demotes anything; HeyOrca (read 2026-10-07) reported ML comment filtering and AI labeling work, not ranking changes. It is a checklist for making something specific on purpose.
Checklist
Each item names the Sume step that supports it, with its price from the repo (read 2026-10-07).
- Write the script yourself or edit it hard. A voice at $0.0475 per 1,000 characters is cheap, so the script is where your effort goes.
- Use your own footage or stills as the base and generate only what you cannot shoot.
- Pick one voice and keep it across episodes so viewers know the series.
- Set captions to a style you reuse (video captions, $0.20 per job).
- Compose a music bed for the series ($0.125) and reuse the prompt wording.
- Keep the AI-use ledger so the label question has an answer.
- Watch the first 3 seconds. If the opener could belong to any channel, rewrite it.
What this costs
A reply-style Short is $0.158 and a captioned product Short is $0.6675. Money is not the filter; taste is. Spend the saved time on the script.
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