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YouTube\u2019s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop.<\/p>\n
As reported by Deadline<\/a>, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers<\/a>, in what is one of the most high profile actions it\u2019s taken against the AI spam polluting the platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n Combined, the channels \u2014 called Screen Culture, based in India, and KH Studio, based in the US \u2014 boasted over two million subscribers and more than one billion views.<\/p>\n \u201cThe monster was defeated,\u201d one YouTuber told Deadline after the slop channels were taken down.<\/p>\n Whatever your thoughts on AI imagery, these channels weren\u2019t using the tech to innocently envision some fanboy\u2019s dream casting. They were unquestionably farming engagement by using AI shots spliced together with actual copyrighted movie footage to trick viewers, per Deadline, and then posting the fake trailers early to drown out the real ones. In March, for example, Screen Culture churned out an outrageous 23 different trailers for \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,\u201d with some of them outranking the official trailer, Deadline found.<\/p>\n Why is YouTube banning them now? The channels, apparently, had gotten cocky. YouTube had quietly suspended their ability to make ad revenue after a Deadline investigation earlier this year, but were able to claw back ad money after adding \u201cfan trailer,\u201d \u201cparody,\u201d and \u201cconcept trailer\u201d to their video titles. But, for reasons unknown, both slop slingers stopped including those disclaimers in recent months, thus inviting the ban hammer.<\/p>\n The decision comes as AI continues to make inroads into the actual movie industry \u2014 and as AI-spoofed trailers become a hot button issue. Users of OpenAI\u2019s video generating app Sora have been churning out loads of AI-spoofed Disney trailers<\/a>, including a Pixar-style animation about Jeffrey Epstein inviting children to his \u201camazing\u201d island \u2014 a trend that didn\u2019t seem to bother Disney when it announced<\/a> it would invest $1 billion into OpenAI and officially license its characters for Sora last week.<\/p>\n What this means for the rest of all the other slop polluting YouTube is unclear. The platform is still overrun with AI-generated music<\/a>, hours-long informational videos presented in a \u201cboring\u201d or \u201csleepy\u201d style<\/a>, and even veritable snuff films<\/a>. Some are using AI to impersonate public figures<\/a>, garnering hundreds of thousands of views. What probably happened here is that the AI movie trailer channels simply played fast and loose with copyright laws for too long, ticked off the wrong IP owners, and got kicked to the curb. And good riddance.<\/p>\n