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Over the past few weeks, YouTube Shorts has become overrun with AI Slop videos, featuring political figures as babies. Diaper Diplomacy, a channel that started just a couple weeks ago has already amassed over 45,000 subscribers and raked in millions of views by uploading AI slop recreations of political debates and political news moments.