How to Block AI-Generated Videos on YouTube

1. Use “Not interested”

When YouTube recommends something you don't want on Home, open the video's menu and choose “Not interested.” This gives YouTube a signal that you don't want more recommendations like it. Some recommendation controls require you to be signed in; see YouTube Help for the available options.

It can help over time, especially if you use it consistently.

But there is an obvious limitation: you still have to see the unwanted video before you can tell YouTube you don't want it. And if dozens of unrelated channels are producing similar AI-generated content, you may end up doing this over and over again.

2. Use “Don’t recommend channel”

If one particular channel keeps appearing in your Home or Watch Next recommendations, YouTube also lets you choose “Don’t recommend channel.”

This is useful when the problem is the channel itself. It is less useful when the same kind of content is being uploaded by hundreds of different channels.

Using channel recommendation controls one at a time can quickly turn into whack-a-mole.

3. Be more deliberate with your recommendations

Your watch history, searches, subscriptions, likes, and other activity can affect what YouTube recommends.

Avoid repeatedly watching content you dislike just because it caught your attention. Subscribe to creators you actually want to see. Use YouTube's recommendation controls when bad recommendations show up.

This can improve your feed, but it still doesn't give you a simple switch that says: “I don't want AI-generated videos.”

If your Home feed keeps returning to the same content, see how to stop AI videos from appearing in YouTube recommendations.

How Orislop works while you browse

You don't need to paste YouTube links into another website or use a separate app.

Install Orislop, configure what you want filtered, and browse YouTube normally. Orislop checks content as it appears and applies the preferences you've chosen.

You remain in control of what actually gets hidden or covered. For a matching video or Short you’re already watching, Orislop can show a cover and pause playback; it doesn’t automatically move to the next video. Learn more about how Orislop works and its privacy details.

What about YouTube Shorts?

Shorts can make unwanted content especially annoying because you're usually already watching the video by the time you realize what it is.

Orislop works with YouTube Shorts as well as regular YouTube videos. So if you're specifically trying to block AI Shorts or reduce AI-generated Shorts in your feed, your filtering preferences don't have to stop when you switch formats.

A YouTube AI blocker shouldn't block everything about AI

There is an important distinction here.

A video about artificial intelligence is not automatically an AI-generated video.

A researcher explaining a new model, a programmer making an AI tutorial, or a creator experimenting with an AI tool could be exactly what you want to watch. Meanwhile, a history, celebrity, finance, or storytelling channel could be mass-producing synthetic videos without being an “AI channel” at all.

Simply blocking the word “AI” would be a terrible filter. Orislop is designed around filtering content based on the signals and preferences that matter rather than blindly removing anything that mentions artificial intelligence. Read about Orislop’s filtering options for YouTube.

Can an AI video detector be wrong?

Yes.

No AI-content detector should pretend to be perfect. Generated media keeps changing. Videos can mix human-created and synthetic material. Some creators clearly disclose AI use, while others don't. Sometimes the evidence is obvious. Sometimes it isn't.

That's why Orislop is built around giving the viewer control rather than pretending every detection is an unquestionable fact. If something is uncertain, the system should treat it like uncertainty.