YouTube Terminates Channels with 2M+ Subscribers for AI-Generated Fake Movie Trailers as Hollywood Studios Secretly Profit
Summary
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio channels with over 2 million combined subscribers for creating AI-generated fake movie trailers that deceived viewers, while major Hollywood studios including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony secretly profited from the misleading content by collecting ad revenue instead of protecting their copyrights.
Key Points
- YouTube terminates two major channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, with over 2 million subscribers combined for creating fake AI-generated movie trailers that violated spam and misleading-metadata policies
- The channels used artificial intelligence to splice official footage with AI images, creating deceptive trailers for major franchises like Fantastic Four and Harry Potter that often outranked official trailers in search results
- Several Hollywood studios including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony secretly monetized these fake trailers by directing ad revenue to themselves rather than pursuing copyright protection