YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-screen-culture-kh-studio-fake-ai-trailer-1236652506/
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-screen-culture-kh-studio-fake-ai-trailer-1236652506/
18 Comments
GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca · 56 pts · 265d
I hate these so much. I hate even more how much AI content is sneaking into feeds without people realizing it's AI. I hardly think Google was acting altruistically. The bottom line is always about money to them.
What a crazy age to be living in. I really just want to jump ahead several decades or jump back several decades. I'm not really enjoying things as of late...
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 265d
It's an increasingly unusably platform precisely because so many keywords return deluges of AI Slop.
I have to assume advertisers are getting rather miffed at spending top dollar for promotion on a premiere platform and getting outranked by some Coco-Mellon tier knock offs that have just gamed the algorithm
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 264d
Took forever for Google to stop recommending these bullshit "trailers" in the news feed on my phone despite never watching them. Hell, I don't even like to watch real trailers for things that actually exist.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 21 pts · 265d
Will they keep up with enforcement, or is this like cops doing a photo shoot after a singular drug bust?
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 264d
It sounds like they only banned them for not having a disclaimer that it isn't a real trailer, so unless that deters people from clicking on them, I assume others will do the same thing just making sure to disclose.
Evotech@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 265d
Aww the corporations are getting a taste of their own medicine
CluckN@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 265d
RedLetterMedia has made a few videos on these AI trailer channels. It’s always dumb stuff like Titanic 2.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 4 pts · 265d
Lord of the rings 4: Frodos revenge!
Thorry@feddit.org · 4 pts · 265d
We've had one family yes, but what about second family?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 2 pts · 264d
featuring a crossover with fast and the furious
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 264d
Sauron....somehow returned!
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 261d
Cars 9: it's cars doing more things.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 265d
Lol what did those uploaders expect when they blatantly tried to so directly steal a page from Youtube's monetization strategy?
This kind of nonsense is too dangerously close to the nonsense products tech companies are trying to sell and it risks making the general public realize how full of bullshit tech companies themselves are.
scytale@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 265d
I was about to say Screen Culture then I saw the link and they're literally the channel being talked about. lol
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 265d
On the one hand, I don’t love that this benefits studios. On the other, I’ve had these things autoplay on me and I hate them. Overall, I’m happy
Jessvj93@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 264d
Thought that Animal Farm trailer was AI and lowkey got relieved when I clicked out of it, then it turned out to be fucking real. Slop, all of it. Also they prob used ai in that trailer anyways.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 265d
I remember watching a "trailer" for Godzilla x Kong, and I don't think it was uploaded by your normal movie trailer/studio YouTube account. There was this weird voiceover through the whole thing, as if different cast members were just reading a script off a page, but it had an uncanny feel to it that I couldn't quite place.
The footage on the other hand were all clips already shown in different trailers from what I remember.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 265d
This is stifling innovation.
Youtube decided it liked artificially generated content, wtf?