I find it extremely difficult to believe two events over 70 years apart that I know are very different in many ways could ultimately have the same underlying cause.
And as you haven't actually made a point, just asserted they do, there's no reason to believe they do. LLM or not
If this is the problem spending a lot of effort to also serve ads along with the real video seems like it'd increase costs.
What you're talking about is a real problem for Google but it's not the only cause of the new behaviour since Neal took over