{"id":154955,"date":"2025-09-23T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154955\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:31:12","slug":"ai-generated-youtube-channel-uploaded-nothing-but-videos-of-women-being-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154955\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Content warning: This article contains descriptions and images of AI-generated graphic violence.<\/p>\n

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media\u2019s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google\u2019s new AI video generator tool, Veo, according to a watermark included in the bottom right corner of the videos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The channel, named Woman Shot A.I, started on June 20, 2025. It posted 27 videos, had over 1,000 subscribers, and had more than 175,000 views, according to the channel\u2019s publicly available data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All the videos posted by the channel follow the exact same formula. The nearly photo-realistic videos show a woman begging for her life while a man with a gun looms over her. Then he shoots her. Some videos have different themes, like compilations of video game characters like Lara Croft being shot, \u201cJapanese Schoolgirls Shot in Breast,\u201d \u201cSexy HouseWife Shot in Breast,\u201d \u201cFemale Reporter Tragic End,\u201d and Russian soldiers shooting women with Ukrainian flags on their chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t able to confirm if YouTube was running ads in videos posted by this channel, but the person behind the channel did pay to generate these videos with Google\u2019s Veo, and complained about the cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe AI I use is paid, per account I have to spend around 300 dollars per month, even though 1 account can only generate 8-second videos 3 times,\u201d the channel\u2019s owner wrote in a public post on YouTube. \u201cSo, imagine how many times I generate a video once I upload, I just want to say that every time I upload a compilation consisting of several 8-second clips, it\u2019s not enough for just 1 account.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woman Shot A.I\u2019s owner claimed they have 10 accounts. \u201cI have to spend quite a lot of money just to have fun,\u201d they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shot A.I also posted polls asking subscribers to vote who \u201cyou want to be the victims in the next video.\u201d The options were \u201cJapanese\/Chinese,\u201d White Caucasian (american,british,italian,etc),\u201d Southeast Asian (thai,filipine,indonesian,etc),\u201d and the N-word.<\/p>\n

YouTube removed the channel after 404 Media reached out for comment for this story. A YouTube spokesperson said that it terminated the channel for violating its Terms of Service, and specifically for operating the YouTube channel following a previous termination, meaning This is not the first time YouTube has removed a channel operated by whoever was behind Woman Shot A.I.<\/p>\n

In theory Veo should not allow users to generate videos of people being murdered, but the AI video generator\u2019s guardrails clearly didn\u2019t work in this case. Guardrails for generative AI tools including AI video generators<\/a> often fail, and there are entire communities dedicated to circumventing them<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[O]ur Gen AI tools are built to follow the prompts a user provides,\u201d Google\u2019s spokesperson said. \u201cWe have clear policies<\/a> around their use that we work to enforce, and the tools continually get better at reflecting these policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July, YouTube said that it would start taking action<\/a> against \u201cmass-produced\u201d AI-generated slop channels. However, as our recent story<\/a> about AI-generated \u201cboring history\u201d videos show, YouTube\u2019s enforcement is still far from perfect. <\/p>\n

About the author<\/p>\n

Emanuel Maiberg is interested in little known communities and processes that shape technology, troublemakers, and petty beefs. Email him at emanuel@404media.co\n<\/p>\n

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