Screen Culture and KH Studio, two YouTube channels, were banned for employing artificial intelligence to create bogus movie trailers.
YouTube has banned two channels for posting false AI-created content. KH Studio, one of these channels, was situated in Georgia, while Screen Culture was based in India. YouTube has already removed adverts for breaking its policies on deceptive and misleading material, as well as the disclosure of synthetic content. According to reports, both channels aired fictional movie trailers to gain more views. The channels are allegedly permanently banned this time.
Channels that post AI deepfakes are banned from YouTube.
Deadline was the first to notice that both channels are now prohibited. Employees at TECHNOXMART also confirmed that these channels no longer appear in YouTube searches. Additionally, the channel URL now redirects to a blank site with the message “This page isn’t available.” I apologize for it.
According to statistics, the channels received over one billion views and had over two million users.
Both channels are accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to create bogus movie trailers in order to boost views of official material. According to Deadline, YouTube removed adverts from these channels earlier this year after rule infractions were uncovered during an inquiry.
Notably, YouTube has strict guidelines regarding misleading and deceptive content, where creators deceive viewers by using clickbait or fabricated headlines, thumbnails, or video footage.
Additionally, the company requires creators to disclose any content that has been meaningfully altered or synthetically generated and appears realistic.
“After being removed from the program, those channels have made the changes required to be reinstated into the YouTube Partner Program,” YouTube representative Jack Malon told The Verge.
However, as they began generating money again, they resumed plainly breaching our spam and misleading metadata guidelines, prompting their removal from the service of the site.
According to Deadline, the channels started adding “fan trailer” and “parody” to their video titles after YouTube suspended their ads, and monetization was reinstated. However, these terms vanished in the months that followed, prompting the suspension for further offenses.
Nikhil P. Chaudhari, the creator of Screen Culture, told a newspaper that he used over ten editors to create these AI-generated fake videos. Reports indicate that he posted these teasers early and frequently changed the films as part of his plan to trick YouTube’s algorithm.
𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 & 𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒔&𝑶𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑻𝑬𝑪𝑯𝑵𝑶𝑿𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌, 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎, 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒘. 𝑩𝒚 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑬𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒙. 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀.