YouTube removes 'billion-view' channel for using AI to deceive viewers.

The cover art for a fake Screen Culture trailer. Photo: YouTube .

According to Deadline, YouTube has shut down two major channels that used artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers: Screen Culture and KH Studio, which together had over 2 million subscribers and attracted over a billion views.

Both are based in India and Georgia (USA), respectively. Currently, when accessing these two channels, users only see the message "This page is unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try searching for other content."

Earlier this year, YouTube suspended ad impressions on Screen Culture and KH Studio following an investigation into the proliferation of fake movie trailers on the platform. At that time, AI junk was particularly rampant due to the development of AI generation tools.

These channels were later given monetization again when they started adding phrases like "fan trailer," "parody," and "concept trailer" to their video titles. However, in recent months, these warning labels have disappeared.

YouTube's stance is that channels reverting to their previous practices violated policies on spam and misleading data, resulting in the termination of these channels. "The monster has been defeated," one YouTuber shared after the platform's decisive action.

Deadline 's investigation revealed that Screen Culture had been splicing official movie footage with AI-generated imagery to create trailers for film franchises, thereby deceiving a significant number of YouTube viewers.

Screen Culture founder Nikhil P. Chaudhari said his team of about a dozen editors exploited YouTube's algorithm by posting fake trailers very early and continuously. Many repeated, slightly edited versions were also released afterward.

For example, as of March, the channel had created 23 trailer versions for The Fantastic Four: First Steps , with some videos even ranking higher than the official trailer in YouTube search results. More recent examples include trailers for HBO's new Harry Potter series and Netflix's Wednesday .

Deadline reports that instead of protecting the copyrights of these videos, several Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros. Discovery and Sony, have quietly asked YouTube to ensure that advertising revenue from videos heavily reliant on AI content will go to them. These studios declined to comment.

Disney brands are heavily featured on Screen Culture and KH Studio. Last week, the filmmaker sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, alleging that the company's AI training models and services infringe on Disney's copyrights on a "large scale."

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